Academic Affairs
The Academic Affairs Office coordinates academic planning, scheduling, student academic support, and the development and maintenance of academic policies. This includes:
- Academic programs
- Faculty
- Academic support programs (advising, tutoring)
- Co-curricular opportunities (Honors, undergraduate research)
The Academic Affairs Office consists of five staff members with the following responsibilities. (View the Academic Affairs directory.)
Chief Academic Officer (CAO)
- Overall strategic planning for academic programs and faculty
- Overall strategic planning for academic support programs
Associate Chief Academic Officer
- Promotion and tenure
- Yearly faculty reviews
- Assessment of academic programs
- Searches for tenure-track faculty
- Collaboration with program coordinators
- Finances for professional development and for programmatic offerings
- Support to established shared academic programs
- Determining faculty for university awards (Atherton, Eisenhower and Alumni Teaching Awards)
Assistant to the Chief Academic Officer
- Academic progress of students
- Workloads for full-time and part-time instructors
- Coordination of course offerings
- Academic advising and learning support
- Searches for non-tenure-track faculty and fixed-term faculty
- Academic integrity and grade mediation and adjudication cases
- Honors Program and related activities
- Collaboration with Continuing Education
Administrative Assistant
Provides administrative support to the Academic Affairs Office, including:
- Searches and hiring for tenure and non-tenure track positions for faculty (including international)
- Promotion & tenure
- Annual faculty reviews
- Faculty travel (including international)
- Academic budgets
- Commencement
- Annual Penn State Laureate visit to Penn State Wilkes-Barre
- Academic awards & Dean’s List
- Also provides academic support to faculty, staff, and students as appropriate
Faculty Support Assistant
Provides administrative support to the faculty, including:
- Travel arrangements and reconciliation of the same
- orders of lab equipment and supplies
- Science Olympiad
- TRIG*STAR program contest
- Also provides academic support to faculty, staff, and students