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