Academic Affairs

Manage, mentor and support faculty and staff

Faculty

• Conduct faculty searches
• Oversee reappointment, tenure, and promotion reviews
• Mediate conflicts among peers
• Mediate student complaints about faculty performance (including grade disputes)
• Coordinate mentoring of new faculty members
• Manage transition to new chairs

Academic support staff/departmental staff

• Direct hiring of new staff
• Coordinate and supervise work schedule
• Review performance annually

Coordinate departmental curriculum

• Courses offered (new courses, courses to be withdrawn, first-year seminars, cross-listed courses, etc.); liaison with Curriculum Implementation Committee
• Course scheduling
• Check and revise annual catalog copy
• Off-campus study and transfer of credit
• Outside speakers
• Annual department report

Coordinate student advising

• Supervise advising of majors and minors
• Approve requests for transfer credit and credit for off-campus study
• Administer advanced placement credit
• Sponsor and advise student groups

Determine equipment and space needs; oversee building management, renovation, maintenance, security

Manage department accounts and oversee expenditures; prepare annual budget

Serve as contact with Admissions Office

• Interviews with prospective students
• Represent department at Bowdoin Experience weekends
• Evaluate applicants’ work where appropriate

Serve as contact with Development Office

• Help with fund-raising – public presentations, speaking and grant-writing

Beyond Bowdoin

• Act as point person for all outside requests for help and expertise
• Respond to surveys
• Act as liaison with State agencies