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Heads' Manual

The College of Arts and Sciences Heads' Manual includes material targeted primarily to A&S department heads and program directors. It includes materials that may also be helpful to faculty and staff.

Following are the sections for the Heads' Manual:

              Section I - Selection and Evaluation of Department Heads
              Section II - Faculty Relations
              Section III - Staff Relations
              Section IV - University and College Administrative Relations
              Section V - Resource Management: Budget and Space
              Section VI - Funding Opportunities
              Section VII - Student Relations
              Section VIII - Constituent Relations
              Section IX - Development Responsibilities
              Section X - Curricular Responsibilities
              Section XI - On and Off Campus Course Scheduling and Enrollment Management
              Section XII - Summer School
              Section XIII - Head Stipends and Sick Leave
              Section XIV - Web Pages and Maintenance
              Section XV - Nominations

Heads' Manual A-Z

[A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
| N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z]

A   ● A&S Bylaws
        ● A&S Distinguished Emeritus Professorship
         ● A&S-Regulations of the College Unireg 510
        ● A&S You Like It Deadlines
        ● Academic advising, philosophy and structure
        ● Academic Affairs Summer Courses
        ● Academic Dishonesty - Section VII
        ● Academic Dishonesty Guidelines and Checklist
        ● Adjunct and Clinical Faculty appointment process
        ● Administratively Dropping a Student (Procedures for)
        ● Advising information
        ● Advisor evaluation and training
        ● Annual Department Report
         ● Articulation Agreement  Community Colleges  (USP)
        ● Assigning Faculty/APs and GAs to specific courses
        ● Awards (Student)
 B       (go to top)
        ● Basic Research Grant Application
        ● Beatrice Gallatin Beuf Golden Apple Award
        ● Biennial and post-tenure evaluations
        ● Board of Visitors (BoV)
        ● Board of Visitors Scholarship
        ● Board Retirement
        ● Budget Cycle 
      ● Bylaws A&S
 C      (go to top)
        ● Case statement
        ● Casper/UW, Teaching for
        ● Clock Stoppage for tenure and promotion
        ● College publications
        ● Commencement Philosophy
        ● Commencement Event
        ● Complaints, Civil Rights Violations and Violence in the Workplace
        ● Concentrations
        ● Consensual Relations
         ● Constituent Relations
        ● Consulting
        ● Consulting - Conflict of Commitment
         ● Controlled Enrollments
         ● Course Enrollment Management
        ● Course Scheduling - On and Off Campus
         ● Curriculum, Degree Program
 D      (go to top)
       ● Degree Program Curriculum
        ● Department Annual Report
        ● Department Heads (Selection and Evaluation)
        ● Department Heads (Leadership Principles)
        ● Department Heads (2nd year review & reappointment)
        ● Development
        ● Discovery Days
        ● Discrimination and Harrassment
        ● Display Cases in A&S Lobby
        ● Distinguished Emeritus Professorship
        ● Dropping a Student (Procedures for Administratively)
 E        (go to top)
        ● Emeritus Status
        ● Emeritus (A&S Distinguished Emeritus Faculty)
        ● Employee (Staff) benefits
         ● Enrollment, Controlled
        ● Exceptions to rules, regulations, and requirements
        ● Extraordinary Merit in Research
         ● Extraordinary Merit in Teaching
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        ● Faculty Disputes
        ● Faculty Evaluation
        ● Faculty Leave
         ● Faculty (New) Orientation
        ● Faculty Recall
        ● Faculty Relations
        ● Family Weekend Resource Fair
        ● Fund Raising
        ● Fund Raising and the UW Foundation
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        ● Golden Apple Award (Beatrice Gallatin Beuf)
        ● Grading Practices
        ● Graduate Assistantships (State-Funded)
        ●  Guidelines for office space
H       (go to top)
        ● Handling Cash
        ● Harassment and discrimination
        ● Head evaluation Instructions (WORD document)
        ● Head evaluation form (WORD document)
        ● Head Stipends(10% & 20%) and Sick Leave
        ● Hiring Academic Personnel
        ● Honors Convocation Speakers
I         (go to top)
        ● Innovative summer courses (Academic Affairs)
             Call for proposals.  (pdf file) 
J        (go to top)
        ● Job Descriptions - information
              Job Description document
 K
 L       (go to top)    
        ● Leadership Principles (Faculty Relations)
        ● Leave for Faculty
 M     (go to top)
        ● Merit Salary Awards
        ● Mission Statement
 N      (go to top)
        ● New Faculty Orientations
 O      (go to top)
        ● Office hours (staff)
        ● Office Management
        ● Office space-Guidelines
         ● On-load teaching
         ● Outreach School, Teaching for the
        ● Outstanding Graduates (info)
        ● Outstanding Graduates (memo)
         ● Over-load teaching
 P       (go to top)
        ● Participation in UW events
        ● Paul Stock Grants-In-Aid (info)
        ● Paul Stock Grants-In-Aid (application)
        ● Peer Evaluation Guidelines
        ● Photo-ops
        ● PISTOL Account Numbers
        ● Post-tenure evaluations
        ● PR - Public Relations
        ● Promotions and counter-offers
Q
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        ● Recall (retired faculty)
        ● Recruiting Steps--academic personnel
        ● Released Time from Teaching for Research
        ● Resource Fair Campus
         ● Retention Responsibilities (student)
        ● Retirement
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        ●  Sabbaticals
        ● Salary Adjustments (staff)
        ● Salary Awards (Merit)
        ● Scholarships (College)
        ● Selection and Evaluation of Department Heads
         ● Sick Leave (Heads)
        ● Space
        ● Space for offices-Guidelines
        ● Spousal support
        ● Staff benefits
        ● Staff Relations
        ● Steps in Recruiting-Academic Personnel
        ● Student Advising and Retention Responsibilities
        ● Student Appeals - Section VII
        ● Student Appeals - Guidelines
        ● Student Behavior (Dealing with Inappropriate)
        ● Student development and recognition
        ● Student faculty contact
        ● Student recruitment
        ● Student Right to Privacy (FERPA)
        ● Students and Teachers Working Together
        ● Summer School
        ● Syllabus advice (Word file)
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        ● Teaching assignments for Faculty/APs and GAs
        ● Teaching evaluations
         ● Teaching for the Outreach School, including UW/Casper
        ● Teaching-Released time from Research
        ● Tenure and Promotion
        ● Tenure and Promotion - Augmenting Dept. Committees
        ● Tenure, Promotion, Extended Term Documents
        ● Transfer credits
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        ● Under-enrolled Classes
        ● Unireg 510 - Regulations of the College of Arts & Sciences
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        ● Verification of classes
        ● Vita-A&S Academic Personnel
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        ● Wait Lists, Use of
         ● Waivers and substitutions (academic requirements)
        ● Web Pages and Maintenance
X Y Z