Dean of the Faculty Office Staff & Responsibilities

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Dean of the Faculty Peter Uvin
Peter Uvin
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty

  • Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees
  • Academic Advising
  • Academic Deans Committee (ADC) of the Consortium
  • Administration Committee
  • Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee (APT)
  • APT Executive Committee
  • Academic Standards Committee appeals
  • Athletics Appointments
  • Athletics Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion committee
  • Board of Trustees
  • Budgets
  • Committee Assignments
  • Committee of Chairs
  • Dean’s Cabinet
  • Department Budgets
  • Department External Reviews
  • Diversity Committee
  • Faculty Compensation
  • Faculty contracts: tenure track and non-tenure track
  • Keck Science Deans Committee
  • Keck Science Presidents and Deans Committee
  • Keck Science Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion committee
  • Post-Tenure Reviews
  • President’s Executive Council
  • Podlich Distinguished Fellows
  • Senior Advisor Council
  • Staff Compensation in offices overseen by the DOF
  • Student Information System
  • Space Planning
  • Tenure Track Appointments
The Dean of the Faculty oversees the following offices:
  • Athenaeum
  • Center for Global Education
  • Center for Writing & Public Discourse
  • Forensics and Debate
  • Kravis Lab for Social Impact
  • Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab
  • Office of Institutional Research
  • Office of the Registrar
  • Research Institutes
Lee Skinner
Lee Skinner
Associate Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Spanish

  • Academic Advising
  • Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees
  • Academic Standards Committee
  • Board of Trustees
  • Committee Assignments
  • Curriculum Committee Chair and general curriculum oversight
  • Dean’s Cabinet
  • Diversity Committee
  • Fellowships Advising Oversight
  • Freshman Humanities Seminars Director
  • Intercollegiate: 7Cs Professional Development Network Grants; 5Cs New Faculty Orientation; 7Cs Diversity Working Group; 5Cs Center for Teaching and Learning; Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
  • Junior Faculty Mentoring
  • New Faculty Orientation
  • Student Orientation (academic aspects)
  • Senior Advisory Council
  • Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees
  • Writing Committee
Shana Levin
Shana Levin
Associate Dean of the Faculty
Crown Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fellow

  • Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees
  • Assessment Committee
  • Board of Trustees
  • Collaboration with Office of Institute Relations
  • Collaboration with Public Affairs and Communications
  • Collaboration with Sponsored Research Office
  • Collaboration with Stewardship Office
  • Committee Assignments
  • Dean’s Cabinet
  • Faculty Research Celebration
  • Faculty Research Committee Chair (sabbatical leaves and research funding)
  • Intercollegiate: 7C Claremont Faculty Leadership Program
  • Junior Faculty Mentoring
  • Kravis Lab for Social Impact Oversight
  • New Chair Orientation
  • Research Institutes
  • Senior Advisory Council
  • Student Research Funds Oversight
  • Student Development Strategy Group
Cindi Guimond
Cindi Guimond
Director of Academic Affairs

  • Academic and Department Budgets
  • Committee support for Academic Affairs, APT, APT/EC
  • Faculty contracts: tenure track and non-tenure track
  • Faculty Support Centers Supervisor
  • Language Residents
  • Office Moves and Space Planning
Elizabeth Morgan
Elizabeth Morgan
Registrar and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

  • Accreditation
  • Assessment
  • Curricular Reform Projects
  • Department External Reviews
  • Registrar’s office
  • Senior Advisory Council
  • Student Information System
Nyree Gray
Nyree Gray
Assistant Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Civil Rights Officer

  • Dean’s Cabinet
  • Civil rights policies and complaints
  • Diversity Committee
  • Faculty hiring policies
Aithan Peterson
Aithan Peterson
Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty

  • Committee Support for Academic Computing, Administration, Computer Science/Data Science, Curriculum, Faculty, Faculty Research, and Writing Committees
  • Emergency and Academic Continuity
  • Podlich fellows
  • Post-Tenure Reviews
  • Research projects for DOF office
  • Student Information System Change Management
  • Student Information System CORE support
Amy Peterson
Janice Heitkamp
Administrative Assistant to the Dean

  • Calendars of Dean of Faculty and Associate Deans of Faculty
  • Budget Support
  • Event organization
  • General Office Support