Dr. Harold Jansen
Student Issues
- Managing academic and non-academic offences and assessing appeals
- Managing grade appeals
- Assessing exam accommodation requests
- Liaising with the Accommodated Learning Centre and Counseling Services
- Resolving miscellaneous complaints
Faculty Issues
- Approving grades and tracking distributions
- Approving and tracking grade changes
- Consulting on teaching, assessment, and student discipline policies
- Consulting on miscellaneous classroom management concerns
Academic Advising
- Supervising advisors; indirectly supervising support staff
- Assessing performance
- Reviewing requests for substitutions, exceptions, and retroactive withdrawals with cause
- Managing academic probation and required withdrawals
- Hearing appeals
Global Citizenship Cohort
- Collaborating on the development and revision of academic programming
Indigenous Student Success Cohort
- Collaborating on the development and revision of admission policy
- Collaborating on the development and revision of academic programming
- Hiring and monitoring the progress of instructors, in collaboration with the ISSC Coordinator
- Indirectly supervising support staff, associated with ISSC
Internationalization
- Collaborating with the International Centre for Students in the development and execution of offshore recruitment strategies
- Development of Articulation and other agreements, including Study Abroad/Exchange programs
Strategic Enrolment Management and Retention
- Executive membership on the university’s Strategic Enrolment Management Committee
- Designing and implementing programs to attract and maintain enrolment in the Faculty of Arts & Science
- Coordination of A&S participation in all university recruitment events
- Developing, planning and implementing initiatives to improve and support student retention
Necho Approvals
- Act as Dean’s designate, where needed, for one-over-one signing authority for expenditures by faculty members, Chairs, Coordinators
Searches
- Representing the Dean at teaching, research, and interview sessions for academic candidates
Public Relations/Advancement
- Attending, and occasionally hosting, public events on behalf of the Faculty and the University
Professional Activities Reports and Salary, Tenure, and Promotion Tasks
- Assisting in the process for annual/biennial evaluation of faculty members, and in the management/operation of activities of STP Committees
Teaching
- Participating in the delivery of the undergraduate program (no more than one course per academic year)
- Instructing and supervising graduate students (at discretion, and in accord with needs of the program of research)
Research
- Maintaining an active research program, including publications and conference presentations
Other Duties
- Miscellaneous duties assigned and undertaken as needed, for the efficient functioning of the Dean’s Office