Title: Associate Dean for Voyage, Scheduling, Facilities and Analytics
Office: B-4-232 MAK
Phone: (616) 331-2506
Fax: (616) 331-3675
Email:  [email protected]

Data Analytics

• Collect, present, and interpret data to assist the College and its units with strategic planning and decision making
  • Hiring decisions
  • Budgetary considerations
  • Program and Curriculum considerations
  • Workload
  • Student Success
• Advise units and individuals about data sources and their use
• Support units in course schedule development and management
  • enrollment predictions
  • Course Dog approvals
  • Rescheduling tool
  • Manage Dibs
  • low enrolled section decisions

CLAS Voyage Administrative Lead

• Gateways to Completion (DFW)
  • Administrative College Lead for Cohort support
  • Facilitate College and University-wide engagement
    • Engage support offices where relevant
    • Co-develop action plan reports
  • Facilitate development of GVSU version of G2C with FTLC
• HIPs
  • Provide support to Voyage Curriculum and Data Directors for work with Unit Faculty on curriculum development, implementation and assessment
  • College liaison with RMSC/CCEL for community engagement
• Embarkation
  • Support Voyage Curriculum and Data Directors for work with Unit Faculty and support offices on development and management
  • Facilitate collaboration and synergy with relevant University initiatives
• ePortfolio
  • Support Voyage Curriculum and Data Directors in work with Unit Faculty and support offices on development with Unit Faculty
• Support Voyage Curriculum and Data Directors in data acquisition and analysis related to Voyage and Student Success
• Lead UH in fully supporting the Voyage – UH Development – what are the needs here??
• Supervision of Voyage Curriculum and Data Directors (Rachel and Bradford)

Facilities, Space and Equipment

• Oversee space use and advocate for CLAS teaching and research needs, including
  • New space allocations/needs
  • New building development
  • Improvements to existing teaching and research spaces
  • Allocation of research space
  • Start-up funds and shared equipment requests
  • Safety compliance and training
  • ADA compliance
  • IT technology in the classroom
• Supervise and work with CLAS Director of Lab Support.
• Serve as CLAS liaison with Facilities Planning and Facilities Services
• Serve as CLAS liaison with the Office of the Provost for matters of facilities and equipment
• Serve as liaison to Academic Space Committee
• Serve as liaison to GIS Committee and IT
• Serve as liaison to Grand Valley Emergency Management Advisor Committee (GV-EMAC)
• AWRI Lab – communicate with Mark Luttenton

Interdisciplinary Initiatives

• Promotion and support of scholarly collaborations, particularly for large college or university-wide projects, such as . . .
  • Environmental Science and Water Restoration Cluster
  • Environmental Science Major/Minor
  • CCEL and OURS-related collaborations
    • Community partnerships - John Ball Zoo, Ottawa County Parks, Pierce Cedar Creek, etc.
    • Kellogg Foundation Grant - Battle Creek Public Schools STEM Academy
    • Facilitate opportunities to connect colleagues across units for faculty and student development related to research and creative activity

Janet Vigna, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for the CLAS Voyage, Scheduling and Analytics. She is a Professor of Biology and was the Unit Head for that Department for six years prior to joining the CLAS Dean’s Office.  Janet is also a professor in the Integrated Science program where she again served as Unit Head and has been teaching and mentoring preservice K-12 science teachers since she came to GVSU in 2002.  Janet has a passion for supporting science education and student success.  Her scholarly interests in this area include the development of pedagogical strategies for inclusive, interdisciplinary and experiential science curriculum.  She has also conducted research with students on the effects of biological pesticides on amphibian communities. She is a coauthor of Biology for a Changing World, a nonmajors textbook created in collaboration with Scientific American that integrates current journalistic stories with relevant biology content to increase student interest in life science issues. Janet has previously been recognized with the GVSU Outstanding Teacher Award and was the 2017 Michigan Science Teachers Association College Science Teacher of the Year. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Iowa where she studied the assembly of surface proteins in white blood cells.  She is currently most inspired by her work in partnership with faculty, staff and students across the university on the development of the CLAS Voyage.