CAS
Major Events Timeline for Academic Departments
July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | March | April | May | June
July
- 1st Summer final exams
- 2nd Summer session begins
- Travel Enrichment Award applications
- New student orientation
August
- Final exams
- Commencement
- Departmental meetings/retreats
- College & university meetings/retreats
- New faculty arrive
- Orientations—faculty and GA’s
- Graduate Assistant contracts
- Part-time instruction contracts due to college
- Fall term begins
- Initiate faculty searches
September
- Continue initiating faculty searches
- Finalize part-time instruction forms/spreadsheets
- Spring course schedule
- Departmental review of T&P dossiers
- Departments develop curriculum changes
- Graduate faculty applications
- Graduate candidacy forms
October
- College T&P committee meets
- Review faculty job applications
- PDA applications
- TAF software requests
- Travel Enrichment Award applications
- Curriculum changes submitted to college
- Provost’s Pre-doctoral Diversity nominations
- Program Reviews begin
November
- Program reviews completed
- Spring semester advising & registration
- Review faculty job applications
- Comprehensive exams for graduate students
- Alumni Association Distinguished Research & Creative Activity & Engaged Scholarship Award nominations
- Spring GA contracts due
December
- Final exams
- Commencement
January
- Faculty evaluate chairs
- Faculty update CVs and submit planning/activity reports
- Part-time instruction paperwork
- Faculty Research Grant applications
- Interviews for tenure track faculty (peaks in Jan. & Feb.)
- Prepare for external reviews
- Reviewing GA applications
- Scholarship forms for next academic year distributed
- Graduate candidacy forms
February
- Staff evaluations—clerical
- Summer & Fall class schedules finalized
- External reviewers on-campus
- Revenue estimates
- Graduate Assistant Meritorious Teaching & Morton Thesis Award nominations
- Van Fleet Memorial Doctoral Award nominations
- Early Career Research Award nominations
- Interviews for tenure track faculty (peak period)
- Reviewing GA applications
- Tenure-track renewal recommendations
- Recommendations on renewal of 1-year faculty
March
- Complete faculty evaluation & planning
- Staff evaluations—administrative professionals
- Finalize tenure track faculty searches and appointment paperwork
- External reviewers on campus
- Early Career Research Award nominations
- CAS Outstanding Employee nominations
- Honors Assembly award information due
- Reviewing GA applications and making offers
- Graduate University Council nominations
- Travel Enrichment Award applications
April
- Honors Assembly
- Part-time Masters Award nominations
- Advising/registration for summer and fall terms
- Final exams
- Comprehensive exams for graduate students
- Convocation
- Solicit external review letters for tenure & promotion candidates
- Summer school contracts distributed
- Reviewing GA applications and making offers
- Final base budget revisions
May
- Commencement
- Pre-session
- Summer school contracts
- Final chance for purchase orders
June
- 1st Summer and Extended sessions begin
- Year-end budget clean up
- Finalize summer school spreadsheets
- New student orientation
- Part-time Masters