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  1. Maintain a vital and appropriate curriculum within budget.
    1. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Academic Program (Curriculum) Changes
      2. Employee Handbook: Curriculum Standards
      3. Employee Handbook: Institutional Effectiveness Policy and Procedures
      4. What to Bring to Academic Council (Guiding Principles) 
  2. Be responsible for program quality, monitoring grading patterns and student outcomes.
    1. Tasks
      1. Electronically collect and review all of your program’s syllabi by the due dates.
      2. Orient new hires to the curriculum they are to teach.
    2. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Writing Across the Curriculum Policy
      2. Employee Handbook:syllabus templates
  3. Be aware of student retention issues.
    1. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Academic Advising
      2. The Associate Provost of Student Retention
  4. Handle student grievances within the program.
    1. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Conflict and Grievance Policy and Procedure
      2. Employee Handbook: Academic Accountability
  5. Collaborate with Undergraduate and/or Graduate Admissions on enrollment.
    1. Tasks
      1. Oversee your program representation at Open House events.
      2. Work with requests for a program representative to speak to a prospective student.
      3. Market your program’s events to prospective students, local schools, etc.
    2. Resources
      1. The Vice President for Innovation and Student Recruitment
      2. The Director of Undergraduate Admissions
      3. The Director of Graduate and Professional Recruitment
  6. Collaborate with Marketing to develop marketing plans for the program.
    1. Task: Keep your program’s webpages current.
    2. Resources
      1. EMU Style Guide for Writers and Editors (https://emu.edu/marketing/ > Resources > Editorial Style Guide)
      2. The Marketing department
  7. Maintain responsive and adequate academic advising services to students.
    1. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Academic Advising
      2. Navigate Training (in the Facstaff Workspace shared drive)
      3. The Associate Provost of Student Retention
  8. Communicate program activities to students.
    1. Task: Work with your faculty to create program-related activities for students to attend.
  9. Oversee PACE with regard to program planning and assessment, outlined in the Institutional Effectiveness Policy and Procedures.
    1. Task: Complete annual PACE reports.
    2. Resources
      1. PACE materials (myEMU > Employee Info tab > IR and PACE on left) where you will find
        1. Your Progress dashboard
        2. PACE training resources
        3. Access to old AIER reports
        4. the SPOL log-in link 
      2. Institutional Effectiveness Policy and Procedures
  10. Facilitate CORE curriculum assessment.
    1. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Institutional Effectiveness Policy and Procedures
      2. The Core Director
  11. Recruit, hire, and evaluate contingent faculty.
    1. Task: Responsible for all aspects of hiring and evaluating contingent (i.e. short-term and adjunct) faculty.
    2. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Adjunct and Short-term Performance Review Policy and Procedures
      2. Steps to Hiring an Adjunct
      3. Adjunct and Short-Term Faculty Evaluation Form
      4. Your dean’s administrative assistant who handles adjunct hiring
  12. Provide program-specific orientation for new faculty.
    1. Tasks
      1. Assign office space and request keys for new hires. 
      2. Orient new hires to your program’s office space (or delegate this to your office coordinator) and things like their office mailbox, the copier, department supplies, etc. (Basic Moodle skills, general policies, university resources, etc. will be covered in the adjunct orientation that is provided by the deans’ administrative assistants in August and January.)
    2. Resources
      1. Key Authorization Form (myEMU > Employee tab; contact Facilities Management for instructions associated with this form)
      2. New Faculty and Adjunct Resources (Google shared drive)
  13. Maintain equipment or other program properties.
  14. Coordinate the requisitioning of supplies.
    1. Task: Authorize your office coordinator to make purchases with an EMU credit card and with The Supply Company.
    2. Resources
      1. Employee Handbook: Purchase Orders
      2. Employee Handbook: Instructional Ordering Procedures
      3. Business Office
  15. Keep program section of catalog current.
    1. Tasks 
      1. Revise your program’s portion of the undergraduate and/or graduate catalog within the deadlines.
      2. Ensure that your program’s approved curriculum changes are reflected in the next catalog.
    2. Resources
      1. Training videos for Confluence (on the Facstaff Workspace shared drive)
      2. The editors of the undergrad, graduate, and seminary catalogs
  16. Work with Financial Aid to determine scholarship recipients, program awards, etc.
    1. Tasks
      1. Contact Financial Aid for the amount of each award and eligibility.
      2. Notify the recipients of the scholarships and awards.
    2. Resource: Financial Aid office

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