Academic Affairs Calendar for Unit Heads

Fall Semester

Month

Week

Task

Helpful Links

August

1

First day of Semester - Fall Personnel Actions portfolio due to Unit Head.

Faculty Personnel Actions Workbook

September

2

Early in Semester - Faculty Personnel Actions: Decide and communicate dates of Unit Meetings, determine so that all unit documents can be forwarded to the Dean by the appropriate deadline. Ask unit regular faculty if they should be excused per Conflict of Interest Policy.

1 - Deadline for applicants to submit proposals to the sabbatical website.

Conflict of Interest Policy

Office of the Provost Sabbatical

September

3

Before the Unit Meeting - Faculty Personnel Actions: Make Personnel portfolio and teaching evaluations available for review. Unit regular faculty review portfolio and teaching evaluations. Submit items for unit meeting agenda. Meeting agenda is prepared, following procedures in the Board of Trustees Policies.

Board of Trustees Policies

September

4

23 - Revised sabbatical leave proposals are due.

Late September - Majors Fair

Sabbatical Website

Majors Fair

September

5

30 - Unit Sabbatical recommendations are due.

Sabbatical Website

October

6

1 - CSCE Catalyst Grant Round 1 submission deadline.

1 - Faculty Workload Plans (FWPs) due from regular faculty, via Digital Measures. Deans and Unit Heads will have access to FWPs via Digital Measures. 

Early October - Faculty Personnel Actions: Unit meetings and votes is conducted for Fall Personnel decisions. Post-meeting comment forms may be submitted to Unit Head after the meeting.

Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence 

Workload and Annual Evaluation Workbook

October

8

15 - Deadline for feedback on FWPs in the case of joint appointments or similar arrangements. 

Mid-October - Scheduling round one edits due for Spring/Summer

Mid-October - Mid-term grades due from faculty

Mid-October - Fall Break

Third Friday in October - Fall Personnel Actions: Prepare draft and then final unit recommendation reports for fall personnel decisions.

Workload and Annual Evaluation Workbook

October

9

25 - Textbook requisition due date for Winter semester.

Fourth Friday in October - Faculty Personnel Actions: Forward all appropriate documents to the Dean for fall personnel decisions.

Laker Store

Faculty Personnel Actions Workbook

November

10

Early November - Scheduling round one edits due for upcoming Fall and Winter semesters.

 

November

11

Mid November - Scheduling final round edits due for Spring/Summer

 

November

12

Third Monday in November - University Sabbatical Review Committee recommendations are due.

Sabbatical Website

November

13

End of November - Deadline for unit heads to review and approve FWPs

Thanksgiving Break (Wednesday-Friday)

Workload and Annual Evaluation Workbook

December

14

1 - Minor space reconfiguration. Furniture, electrical, telephone, data, repairs and painting. Limited construction facility requests due.

Early December - Staff evaluation process, set goals and complete third employee/supervisory quarterly check-in (if applicable).

Project Request Guidelines

HR Performance Management

December

15

Early December - Examination Week

 

December 

16

Mid-December - Grades Due from Faculty

End of Fall Semester - Deadline for the unit to decide whether to waive the default merit review process.

 

Winter Semester

Month

Week

Task

Helpful Links

January

1

First day of semester - Faculty Personnel Actions: Portfolios due to Unit Head

Early in Semester - Faculty Personnel Actions: Decide and communicate dates of Unit Meetings, determined so that all unit documents can be forwarded to the Dean by the appropriate deadline for personnel decisions. Ask unit regular faculty if they should be excused per Conflict of Interest policy.

Faculty Personnel Actions Workbook

Conflict of Interest Policy

January

2

Before the Unit Meeting - Faculty Personnel Actions: Make portfolio and teaching evaluations available for review. Unit regular faculty review portfolio and teaching evaluations. Submit items for unit meeting agenda. Meeting agenda is prepared, following procedures in the Board of Trustees Policies.

Early January - Start reviews of workload activity reports to rank for merit planning.

Faculty Personnel Actions Workbook

Workload and Annual Evaluation Workbook

January 

3

Mid-January - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Recess

 

January

4

Late January - Scheduling final round edits due for upcoming Fall and Winter semesters.

 

February

5

1 - CSCE Catalyst Grant Round 2 submission deadline.

1 - Faculty Workload Reports (FWRs) and current vitas are due to unit heads, via Digital Measures. 

By early February - Faculty Personnel Actions: Unit meeting and vote is conducted on personnel decisions.

Feb-March - Faculty Personnel Actions: Notify unit of March 30 deadline to apply for promotion to Professor/Senior Librarian.

Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence 

Workload and Annual Evaluation Workbook

 

February

6

Second Tuesday in February - Faculty Awards Convocation

Early February - Student Excellence in a Discipline Awards selection due to the Office of Provost

15 - Deadline for feedback on FWRs in the case of joint appointments or similar arrangements.

Faculty Awards Convocation

Student Awards Convocation

Workload and Annual Evaluation Workbook

February

7

By third Friday in February - Faculty Personnel Actions: Prepare draft and then final unit recommendation report for personnel actions.

25 - Spring/Summer Textbook Requisition Due dates.

28 - Faculty Personnel Actions: Forward all appropriate documents to the Dean’s office for personnel actions.

Laker Store

Faculty Personnel Actions Workbook

 

February

8

Fourth Friday in February - Faculty Personnel Actions: Forward all appropriate documents to the Dean’s office for personnel actions.

Late February/Early March - Mid-term Grades Due

Late February/Early March (depends on college) - Unit heads submit written performance summaries and recommended overall ratings for each faculty member to the dean for their review.
 

Faculty Personnel Actions Workbook

March

9

Spring Break

 

March

10

15 - CSCE Catalyst Grant Round 3 submission deadline.

Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence 

March

12

25 - Textbook Requisition Due for Fall

30 - Faculty Personnel Actions: Deadline for candidate to apply in writing for promotion to Professor/Senior Librarian.

During the Month - Staff evaluation process, update any final quarter goals and engage in annual rating process (if applicable).

Faculty Personnel Actions Workbook

HR Performance Management

April

13

Early April - Major Facilities Requests Due

1 - Furniture requests for new faculty/staff. Furniture repair or replacement. Minor furniture changes including electrical, telephone & data. End of year facilities requests using department funds.

Academic Space Requests Procedures

Project Request Guidelines

 

April

14

Second Monday in April - Student Awards Convocation

Mid-April - Deans upload final merit decisions and relevant documents to Workday.

Student Awards Convocation

April

15

Last Week in April - Examination Week

 

April 

16

Tuesday after Exam Week - Grades Due by 12pm

 

Spring/Summer Semester

Month

Week

Task

Helpful Links

May

2

15 - Major space reconfiguration. Walls, doors, ceiling, flooring, mechanical, electrical, telephone, data, painting, furniture. Changes to classrooms involving layout changes, technology, equipment, furniture and capacity changes. Construction required, facilities requests due.

Project Request Guidelines

May

3

Late May - Staff evaluation process in Workday Begins. Set goals and complete first employee/supervisor quarterly check-in (if applicable).

HR Performance Management

June

5

Early June - Submit final Tech Acquisition Quote orders for the fiscal year. Reconcile all accounts for the end of the fiscal year. Refer to frequent updates near end of fiscal year from Business and Finance.

Technology Acquisition

June

7

Mid-June - 1st 6 weeks Examinations

 

June

8

Late June - Submit Tech Acquisition orders for catalog/stock orders.  Requisitions for future dated purchases open for new fiscal year. All fiscal year requisitions will be closed. All supplier invoice requests need to be submitted for approval in Workday. All expense reports for the current fiscal year must be submitted. Refer to frequent updates near end of fiscal year from Business and Finance. 

Technology Acquisition

July

9

Early July - Last opportunity to submit invoices with a purchase order number to Accounts Payable for fiscal year. All supplier invoice requests must be fully approved in order to be processed in the current fiscal year.

 

July

10

Mid-July - Last opportunity to approve invoices in Workday for fiscal year. Fiscal year purchase orders with remaining balances will be rolled to next fiscal year.

 

August

13

Early August - 2nd 6 weeks or 12 Weeks Examinations

6 - First day of Academic Year, 9 month faculty contracts begin

 

August

14

Mid-August - Fall Conference on Teaching and Learning.

Mid-August - Staff evaluation process, set goals and complete second employee/supervisor quarterly check-in.

Faculty Teaching and Learning 

HR Performance Management

August

15

Late August - New Faculty Orientation

Faculty Teaching and Learning 



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