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The College of Arts & Sciences staff is here to provide support to faculty, staff and students and help maintain a supportive teaching and learning environment. Staff have expertise in purchasing, academic procedures, grant management, and more.
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Florenz Plassmann
Dean
- College strategic planning and goal setting
- Administrative oversight of dean's staff, department chairs and program directors
- Liaison to Executive Vice President and Provost and Ohio University college deans
- Represents faculty, students and staff to external stakeholders including alumni, donors and the general public
- Provides final approval for staffing, promotion and tenure and college budgetary commitments
Lori Bauer
University Communications & Marketing Communications Specialist for A&S
- Contributions to Forum
- Social Media and e-communications
- Marketing needs
- Publication requests
- Alumni communications
- Faculty expert placements
- News releases and media outreach
- Photography requests
- Videography requests
- Event promotion
Kendall Brown-Clovis
Director of Administration
- Strategic planning for administrative services across the college
- Professional development
- Diversity Initiatives
- Policy development and implementation
- Coordination of services with HR Liaison
- Oversight of administrative operations in the Dean's Office
Sarah Poggione
Associate Dean for Students, Instruction and Curriculum
- Support for teaching, learning, assessment, and student success initiatives
- Oversight of college undergraduate programs and curricula
- Chairs the college Curriculum Committee
- Manages college-level curriculum processes
- Oversight of college Office of Undergraduate Student Affairs
- Handles grievances from undergraduate students, following disposition at the academic department or program level
- Promotes faculty professional development related to teaching and student learning
- Liaison to other colleges and units on issues related to academic programs, instruction, and assessment
- Chairs the college Awards Committee
Claire Kimok
Senior Accounting Specialist
- Provides budgeting, accounting, research and special project support to the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (CFAO)
- Manages many of the daily financial and accounting operations of the dean's office
- Assists the CFAO in the oversight of the entire College's financial operations
- Liaison to college departments and VP Finance staff; advises, directs and assists in resolution of accounting issues, including yearly fiscal close procedures
- Primary college-level approver for Concur transactions, Bobcat BUY purchasing system and faculty and staff travel authorization forms
- Processes approved funding commitments for the dean's office
Brian C. McCarthy
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, Graduate Studies, and Research
- Oversees college faculty development programs
- Coordinates faculty fellowship leave (FFL) process
- Advice and oversight of promotion and tenure process
- Manages graduate student budget
- Liaison to Graduate College and Graduate Council
- Oversees policies & procedures related to graduate admissions, theses, and dissertations
- Manages development and review of Institutes and Centers
- Evaluates requests for research support and incentive funds
- Review and approval of grant applications
- Liaison to VP for Research and ORSP
- Chair of the Research Advisory Committee
- Oversees Digital Measures
- Facilities, space and IT
April Ritchie
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
- Accounting
- Budget planning
- Contract approval for faculty and staff
- Compliance
- Finance
- Memorandum guarantee approval (for grant pre-spending)
- Temporary staffing approval
Erin Thompson
Executive Assistant
- Provides administrative support for the college executive staff and primary support for the Associate Dean for Students and Curricular Affairs.
- Coordinates college curriculum processes and College Curriculum Committee.
- Provides classroom scheduling support for the departments.
- Coordinates college-level standing committees and ad hoc committees.
- Coordinates endowed scholarship award process.
- Manages college-level graduate program processes.
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Randy Price
Assistant Dean
- Supervise the A&S Office of Undergraduate Student Affairs
- Coordinate A&S undergraduate student advising
- Review degree conferral applications
- Assist students with academic concerns
- Provide support and information to A&S faculty about academic and curricular issues
- Handles appeals from undergraduates who have been dropped or suspended from the university
Shelley Barton
Administrative Specialist
- Assist faculty, administrators, and staff in departments across campus about academically-related processes and procedures
- Respond to students' general academic questions and concerns
- Answer questions about changing majors and filing tuition appeals and reinstatement petitions
- Supervise work-study students
- Answer questions, enrolls, and posts class placements (chemistry, English, languages, math)
Mark Shields
Records Management Assistant
- Welcome students to the A&S college office
- Manage the front desk of the A&S college office
- Answer calls and assist with general student inquires
- Process update-of-program and other student forms