Unit Heads

Personnel Policy and Process (This link takes you to the Provost's website. Nota bene: CLAS uses a more staggered calendar. Please look at the official letters, UH BB site, and weekly mailing calendar)

Personnel Standards

Sabbaticals

Salary Adjustment/Evaluation Process

Support staff

Teaching Evaluations

UH selection and evaluation guidelines

CLAS Documents, Forms, and Policies

Advice from Unit Heads (as discussed at UH Meetings)

Assessment

Calendars

CLAS Academic Advising Center

CLAS Acts faculty e-newsletter

CLAS procedures for reinstatement to the university

CLAS Weekly Mailing Archive

Dean's Office

Departmental Websites

Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence

Elections

Governance

Graduate Programs

Intercollege Support Request Procedures (Provost's website)

Intercollege Support Request Form

Late Add procedures

Meetings, conducting productive

Meetings, Departmental Events & Meetings, CLAS Policy

Procedures on Provost's website

Quadrennial Report and annual reports

Record Retention/Information Security

Research Support

Responsibilities of CLAS Deans

Risk Reduction

Strategic Plan (university online system instructions)

Training of new UH

Unit Head Dashboard

Unit Head List

Unit Head Meeting dates

Unit Head Resources

Scheduling & Staffing

Scheduling

Staffing

Teaching & Curriculum

Curriculum Process

Graduation Audits

Institutional Agreement process

Late Add procedures

LIFT

Mathematics--Overview of Placement procedures

Student records

University Useful Links

Acronym Decoder

Admissions events

scholarship interview dates, contact Gretchen Galbraith
Admissions requirements

Affiliates

contract renewal or promotion recommendation form

Assessment

GVSU Assessment page

Awards

Awards recipients
Awards table containing info on processes and deadlines
Niemeyer Awards (Faculty, Undergraduate and Graduate)
CLAS Outstanding Service Awards (Dean's Office; feel free to make recommendations before March)
Pew teaching with technology
CSCE Faculty Awards

Booking Conference Rooms

308 PAD, Roxanne Mol, 1-2296
B-4-243 MAK, Roxanne Mol, 1-2296
B-4-106 MAK, Roxanne Mol- 1-2296
B-2-226 MAK, Roxanne Mol- 1-2296.
Kirkhof Center and Cook DeWitt, contact Event Services

Budgeting

See Cindy Laug for Adjunct/overload

Calendars

CLAS Academic Advising Center (C-1-140 MAK) phone 1-8585

www.gvsu.edu/clasadvising
e-mail advstu@gvsu.edu
CLAS procedures for reinstatement to the university

CLAS Acts TT faculty e-newsletter

archive
contact: Monica Johnstone 1-8125

CLAS Dean's Office, B-4-232 MAK, 1-2495 (see also Dean's Office)

CLAS Database

for database and demographic information contact Heidi Nicholson, 1-3181

The CLAS Teacher archive (newsletter for AFF, VIS, ADJ faculty of CLAS)

Commencement

commencement website
Need regalia? It can be ordered through the University Bookstore. Call 331-2450. Please allow 4-6 weeks.

Complaints & grievances

Faculty Handbook
Faculty Grievance Committee (non-UAS) membership
Associate Dean to consult regarding student complaints Kevin Tutt. Call 1-2495
Public Safety related

Curriculum Process

CLAS Curriculum Committee contact Brandon Borstler in the CLAS Dean's Office (ph 1-2495)
University Curriculum Committee (UCC)
SAIL system https://www.gvsu.edu/sail/
Archival Curriculum Development System

Dean's Office

Who does what?
Organizational Chart of the CLAS College Office
Photos & bio sketches
Archive of speeches by the Dean
Borrow the Popcorn Machine, contact Monica Johnstone, 1-2495

Departmental Website

Resource: Dir. of CLAS Communications, Monica Johnstone (ph 1-2495)
GVSU Web Team, Institutional Marketing (ph 1-2525)
Get training on the GVSU Content Management System; contact the GVSU Web Team
Links to CLAS Departmental websites

Digital Studio

The Digital Studio is available for faculty/staff and students to have media digitized. Computing and Technology Support is staffing a Digital Studio. It is equipped with high-end technology and the latest software titles. The digital studio seeks to promote the creation of virtual learning experiences through providing consulting services, project development, and technology exploration. D-2-329 Mackinac Digital Studio website

Directory

Directory of CLAS Offices including coordinators

Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence

dates, online form and pictures

Emergency procedures

Facilities

CLAS Assistant Dean with responsibility for facilities planning, George McBane (ph 1-2495)
Facilities request form
Facilities request process guidelines
Faculty Facilities Planning Committee (UAS)
Keys: The process for requesting keys from Facilities Services in now online. Directions are posted on the department's Web site, www.gvsu.edu/facilitiesservices, and click on "Submit Key Request." Staff members are no longer required to provide a key code, only the room number and building. Keys for a desk or file cabinet will require a specific lock number.

Faculty Handbook

GVSU Faculty Handbook online

FERPA

Governance

CLAS Web page on Governance and Elections
GVSU Web page on Governance
See also Blackboard for governance materials
Request a report listing those in your department currently on CLAS, UAS and nonUAS committees

Graduate Programs

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences includes masters degree programs in several disciplines.

Masters of Science in Biology

Masters of Biomedical Sciences (M.H.S.)

Masters of Communications

Masters of Arts in English

Professional Science Masters (PSM) (administered in College of Engineering)

- Masters of Science in Biostatistics
- Masters of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology
- Interdisciplinary with the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing Masters of Science in Medical & Bioinformatics

Grants and Research Resources

Center for Scholarly & Creative Excellence, contact Bob Smart
Office of Sponsored Programs, contact Director of Grants Development and Administration
CLAS financial accounting related to grants, Assistant Dean Michelle McCloud, B-4-232 MAK, ph 1-2495
Promotion of newly received grants, Monica Johnstone (CLAS); also University Communications

Hiring/Faculty Searches

Diversity Resources Office
Human Resources Hiring Supervisor Resources
Affirmative Action Web page
Inclusion & Equity Division
IT info for new faculty and staff
Recruiting Expenses Policy
Contact regarding new positions, AD Gretchen Galbraith, 1-2495
Contact regarding procedure, Cindy Laug
Position numbers assigned for each approved faculty line; the dollar amount that is in those lines (salary available); status of the searches; request to interview; selection approval notification and contract offers --contact Cindy Laug.
Online search process, contact Luis Lozano in HRO

Human Subjects

Inclusion resources

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center
Women's Center
Office of Multicultural Affairs
Division of Inclusion & Equity
Veterans
Multi-faith Calendar A great resource for planners.

Address a computer problem-- IT Helpdesk
Phone: 616 331-2101 Email: helpdesk@gvsu.edu
Phone or Walk In Hours
Monday - Thursday 7:30am - 7:30pm Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Semester break hours
Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 5:30 pm
Phone support is available 24/7
The Helpdesk provides assistance to Faculty, Staff and Students
IT Helpdesk : http://www.gvsu.edu/it/
IT training seminars, see Sprout
IT info for new faculty and staff

LIFT teaching evaluation

Laboratories

Director of Laboratory Operations, Aaron Perry, 2200h P. Douglas Kindschi Hall of Science
(616) 331-3969 perryar@gvsu.edu
safety website
Lab safety specialist Jim Seufert 1-8628
other contacts
Modern Language lab
Computer labs
Speech Lab

Meetings, conducting productive

links from the FTLC workshop Conducting Productive Meetings
- www.bnet.com/2436-13059_23-188712.html
- www.makemeetingsmatter.com/articles.html
- Robert's Rules of Order www.robertsrules.org
- Multifaith Calendar A great resource for planners.

Meetings, CLAS Policy on Departmental Events and Meetings Form

Mentoring

New faculty orientation, contact ph 1-2495 Donovan Anderson
CLAS Mentoring Recommendations to Units
Resources Useful for New Faculty
New faculty social, contact Roxanne Mol (1-2495)

Personnel Policies

Personnel Process

Revised forms, see https://www.gvsu.edu/fpw/

Promotion & Tenure
- CLAS Standards & Criteria for Personnel Evaluation
- CPC Guidelines for Unit Head and Colleagues
- Procedure for transmittal of materials to CPC (paper, electronic)
- CLAS Personnel Forms

Photos

University Communications has professional photographers that may be available to be booked for your event. Individual portraits can be taken for a small fee.

Publicity

Promotion of news and up-coming events, Monica Johnstone (CLAS)
University Communications contact for most things in CLAS is Matt Makowski
Contact for the CLAS Happenings poster is Cindy Driesenga (1-2495)
Notes for campus event organizers
Resources for promoting events
Submit news to The Forum

Quadrennial Report of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and annual reports

Record Retention/information security

Recruitment

Regional Math & Science Center, C-1-120 MAK, 1-2267

Registration

Late Add procedures

Research support

Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence, Robert Smart
GVSU Funding Resource Information
See also Grants

Responsibilities

Risk Reduction

Sabbaticals

Salary Adjustment/Evaluation Process

Scheduling

Course changes, contact Heidi Nicholson. AD Gretchen Galbraith and Cindy Laug have signature authority.

Staffing Plan Information

deadlines--contact Cindy Laug
Adjunct Salary Guidelines (password protected PDF)
EAP Teaching Permission form
limits of credit hours--see Admin Manual
- adjunct
- visiting
- affiliate

Statistical Consulting Center, A-1-178 MAK, 1-3355

Strategic Planning Resources

GVSU Assessment
CLAS Strategic Plan and those of CLAS Units are on the university online system
CLAS Strategic Plan

Student

Student Code
- Complaints and Grievances (Article IV)
- grade appeal (Appendix B of Code)
Late Add procedures
Student Fellowship award opportunities www.gvsu.edu/fellowships

Student records

Support Staff