Academic Program Coordinator, Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies

Academic Program Coordinator, Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies

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College / VP Area: College of Arts & Sciences

Work type: Staff

Location: Newark, DE

Categories: Administrative Support

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at the University of Delaware is nationally recognized for its exceptional educational experiences and for integrating instruction, research, and public engagement. With 24 academic departments in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, more than 25 centers, programs, and institutes, and featuring outstanding research and teaching facilities, CAS serves over 7,500 students, is supported by approximately 400 staff, and maintains annual operating expenditures of over $121M.

The College’s 600 faculty members emphasize the enduring value of an arts and sciences education and a deep commitment to excellence in scholarship and all forms of creative and intellectual expression, with sponsored research expenditures totaling more than $38.6M per fiscal year.

The Departments of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies are housed within the College of Arts and Sciences and offer nationally recognized graduate and undergraduate programs. The departments currently consist of 23 tenure track, continuing track, and temporary faculty, 2 administrative staff, and approximately 100 undergraduate majors and 175 undergraduate minors. Annual departmental research expenditures total approximately $100,000 per year, with a total department budget of over $5 million per year.

The Departments also service many undergraduate students teaching approximately 60 class sections per semester. The departments are also home to two centers – the Center for Archaeological Research and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence.

Under the limited direction of the department Business Administrator (BA) and in coordination with the department Chairperson(s), the Academic Program Coordinator (APC) is responsible for the coordination of departmental academic programs and a wide range of department, faculty, and staff operational needs and activities. The Coordinator interacts with and supports faculty, students, College and University administrators, and alumni to support the mission and goals of the Department(s), College, and University and to advance departmental teaching, service, and research objectives.

• Manage operational aspects of the departmental undergraduate and graduate programs to ensure student progress toward degree completion through both internal departmental documentation and the Stellic degree management and advising platform. Assist graduate and undergraduate students and faculty advisors with registration and scheduling issues, drop/add, overrides, transfer credit evaluations, change of registration without penalty, registration holds, and general advisement questions, in coordination with department faculty, the BA, the College Student Success Center (SSC) team, the Graduate College, and the Honors College.
  
  Meet with walk‑in visitors, including prospective students (high school, new admits) and their parents/guardians regarding academic requirements, career opportunities and University resources.
• Respond to inquiries, investigate, and resolve problems related to undergraduate and graduate transactions handled by the department. Interpret and explain College and University policies, practices, and procedures to parents/guardians and prospective students as well as to current students and faculty.
• Develop curriculum guides to address issues unique to department’s majors and minors.
• Manage departmental course scheduling, in coordination with department faculty and the BA. Input all course data into UDSIS and manage classroom requests to secure rooms and avoid conflicts, in conjunction with other departments.
• Resolve conflicts of departmental courses with each other and with courses outside the department that are part of the departmental curriculum, and monitor enrollments to determine whether more sections need to be added or cancelled.
• Validate grade roster and faculty workload, approve change of Academic…