Functions
Academic Affairs & International Programs are responsible for:
- Developing, implementing, and monitoring of academic personnel policies, including
- Promotion and tenure
- Post-tenure review
- Appointments and reappointments
- Sabbatical requests
- Emeritus status requests
- Tenure relinquishment requests
- Tenure clock change requests
- Faculty grievance matters; personnel matters
- Salary equity studies; salary requests
- Providing leadership in education, particularly as it pertains to,
- Undergraduate instruction and advising improvements
- Educational program assessment
- Coordination for Baccalaureate Core, Writing Intensive Curriculum, and Difference, Power, and Discrimination curriculum
- Academic support for students through programs of the Center for Writing and Learning
- Community college liaison including articulation and dual admissions and enrollment agreements
- Academic program review coordination
- New academic programs and courses facilitation
- Publication of the OSU Catalogs and Schedules of Classes
- Professional development opportunities for faculty
- Providing leadership in developing international programs and initiatives, including
- Collaboration with academic units to develop OSU's international involvement through faculty and students exchange programs and research partnerships
- Providing oversight for OSU's International Degree Program
- Advising on immigration regulations and ensuring that OSU policies and practices are in compliance with federal regulations
- Providing intensive English instruction for international students
- Offering Summer Session academic programs and nonacademic programs, such as workshops, conferences, and noon concert series.
- Coordinating the university's accreditation activities including developing self-study reports and planning and directing interim and full accreditation visits.
- Defining, collecting analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information about the University through the Office of Institutional Research.
- Providing administrative oversight to OSU Libraries and Reverse Officers Training Corps (Air Force, Army, Navy/Marines).
- Administering Faculty Diversity Initiative funds and working with the campus community to promote diversity- ethnic, racial, cultural- at OSU.
- Oversight of L.L. Stewart Award and Faculty Productivity Loan program.
- Working with academic colleges and other offices that support the academic mission of the University, including Student Affairs, Faculty Senate, Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Office of Budgets and Fiscal Planning, and Graduate School, to enhance OSU's educational and cultural environment.
