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Staff Responsibilities by Name

Name Responsibilities
Neal Armstrong
Vice Provost
Phone: 232-3305
neal_armstrong@mail.utexas.edu
  • Accountability
    • UT System
    • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  • Accreditation
    • SACS Accreditation
    • SACS Accreditation Liaison
  • Assessment Processes
  • Compact Planning Process
  • Dean's Fellows/Leave opportunities
  • Faculty
    • Child Care for faculty recruiting / retention
    • Faculty Initiative Program
    • Faculty Life
    • Workload Reports
  • ITAC Committee Chair
  • Performance Based Instruction System (PBIS)
  • UT Cares Committee Chair

Kevin Carney
Sr. Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-3312
kcarney@mail.utexas.edu

  • Assistant to Terri Givens

Cynthia Cruz
Sr. Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-3314
cruz_cc@mail.utexas.edu

  • Assistant to Neal Armstrong & Judith Langlois
  • Mezes Committee Liaison
  • UT Cares Committee

Angela Davis
Sr. Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-2427
angela.davis@mail.utexas.edu

  • Faculty Credentialing
  • Faculty Emeritus Requests
  • Faculty Request for Leave
  • Faculty Resignations and Retirement
  • Faculty Sick Leave
  • UT Remembers
  • Faculty Annual Reports (backup)
  • Faculty Endowed Position Appointments (backup)
  • Faculty Promotions (backup)
  • Workshop for Department Chairs / Organized Research Unit Directors (backup)

Kristi Fisher
Associate Vice Provost and
Director of Information Management and Analysis
Phone: 232-1825
kfisher@mail.utexas.edu

  • Coordinating Board issues
  • Coordinating Board liaison
  • Distance learning courses
  • Faculty workload report
  • Out of State and foreign courses
  • 12th class day reports

Kathy Foster
Academic Budget Officer
Phone: 232-3316
k.foster@mail.utexas.edu

 

  • Academic budgets
  • Accreditation expenses
  • Assistance for non-academic departments that report to the Provost
  • Computer Life Cycle Program
  • Course fees (including Option II and III)
  • Division of Continuing and Extended Education contracts/service agreements
  • Entertainment expenses authorization
  • Faculty Computer Initiative
  • Funding commitments
  • Harrington Fellows
  • Incidental fees
  • Institutional memberships
  • Monetary award approvals
  • TA/AI tuition assistance
  • Travel requests for deans

Cheryl Fuller
Senior Systems Analyst
Phone: 471-0559
cheryl.fuller@mail.utexas.edu

  • Electronic Prior Approval Request (PAR)
  • Faculty database generation, tables, screens, reports
  • Faculty election system
  • Faculty information modules and files for internal and outside systems
  • PAR interface with appointment and EID generation
  • Software development and data analysis for faculty and academic personnel

Terri Givens
Vice Provost
Phone:232-7245
tgivens@mail.utexas.edu

 

  • Academic advising liaison
  • Academy of Distinguished Teachers
  • Administrative structure (new units and name changes)
  • Co-op Goes Scholarships
  • Degree program approvals
  • Faculty Council and catalog legislation
  • George H. Mitchell Student Awards for Academic Excellence
  • Harrington Faculty Fellows
  • Interdisciplinary programs
  • International Study
  • Maymester Abroad program
  • Longhorn Scholars Program
  • Outside Employment
  • Service Learning
  • Teaching awards for faculty (cross college)
  • Textbook Authorization
  • University Standing Committees

Dorothy Harris
Sr. Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-3323
djharris@mail.utexas.edu

  • Faculty Annual Reports
  • Faculty Endowed Position Appointments
  • Faculty Promotions
  • Faculty Prior Approval Requests (backup)
  • Faculty Request for Leave (backup)
  • Faculty Resignations and Retirement (backup)
  • Faculty Sick Leave (backup)
  • Future Faculty EIDs (backup)
  • UT Remembers (backup)

Janet Hart
Assistant to the Executive
Vice President and Provost
Phone: 232-3301
j.hart@mail.utexas.edu

  • Provost mail/email facilitation
  • Provost Office Manager
  • Scheduling for Provost

Janice Hejl
Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-3311
jhejl@mail.utexas.edu

  • Receptionist
  • Scheduling for Main 210 and 212

Diana Hernandez
Administrative Associate
Phone: 471-4363
diana.noemi@mail.utexas.edu

  • Faculty Credentialing

Cheryl Kaufman
Sr. Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-3303
kaufman@mail.utexas.edu

  • Assistant to Steve Monti and Kathy Foster
  • Provost’s web page
  • Tuition Rebate Program ($1,000)

R. Michael Kerker
Project Manager
Phone: 471-2694, 232-3300
mkerker@austin.utexas.edu

  • Academic open record requests
  • Alcohol use authorization
  • Authorization of Professional Services (APS)
  • Compliance reporting - System
  • Data analysis for planning and budgeting
  • Educational experience, affiliation agreements
  • Legislative requests
  • Project Information Quest (IQ) - data warehouse
  • Student fee reviews
  • Tuition Policy Advisory Committee
  • Staff grievances

Emil Kresl
Sr. Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-3315
kresl@mail.utexas.edu

  • Faculty Prior Approval Requests (PARs)
  • Faculty Recruitment Web
  • Future Faculty EIDs
  • Roster List & Document
  • Workshop for Department Chairs / Organized Research Unit Directors
  • Faculty Promotions (backup)
  • Faculty Request for Leave (backup)

Judith Langlois
Vice Provost
Phone: 232-3317
langlois@mail.utexas.edu

  • Dean selection / review committees
  • Faculty grievances

Bruno Longarini
Director, International Program Development
Phone: 475-7021
longarini@austin.utexas.edu

  • International Program Liaison

Steve Monti
Executive Vice Provost
Phone: 232-3306
monti@mail.utexas.edu

  • Academic advising liaison
  • Academic budgets
  • Academic open record requests
  • Approval of foreign travel for faculty and research staff
  • Computer Life Cycle program
  • Course fees (including Option II and III)
  • Dean appointment/ review committees
  • Department Chairs and academic program director appointments and reviews
  • Departmental governance structure authorization
  • Division of Continuing and Extended Education contracts/service agreements
  • Entertainment expenses authorization
  • Faculty Computer Initiative
  • Incidental fees
  • New position authorization, recruitment, and retention for faculty
  • Non-standard course hours (initial request)
  • Post-tenure review for faculty
  • Renovations requests, facilities
  • Retention and counteroffers for faculty
  • Shortened format courses (initial request)
  • Staff grievances
  • Space requests
  • Summer session course-load issues for faculty
  • Tuition waiver allocations
  • University Extension courses

Renee Wallace
Associate Vice President
Phone: 232-3320
rlwallace@austin.utexas.edu

  • Administrative and professional appointments (code 1000)
  • Department System Administrator
  • Endowed positions
  • Faculty annual reports
  • Faculty appointments
  • Faculty leaves
  • Faculty modified instructional duties
  • Faculty phased retirement contracts
  • Faculty prior approval request (PAR) system
  • Faculty probationary period extensions
  • Faculty promotion/tenure process
  • Faculty Recruitment Web
  • Faculty resignations/retirement
  • Faculty Roster System
  • Faculty sick leave
  • Layoffs due to loss of funds or reorganization/non-renewals
  • Personnel officer for units reporting to the Provost
  • Workshop for department chairs/organized research unit directors

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