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Name Responsibilities

Mike Acuña
Academic Advisor II
Phone: 232-7841
macuna@mail.utexas.edu

  • Academic advising for
    • Maymester
    • Fulbright Program
    • Teaching Awards
    • Undergraduate Awards

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
  • Faculty
    • Child Care for faculty recruiting / retention
    • Faculty Initiative Program
    • Faculty Life
    • Workload Reports
  • ITAC Committee Chair
  • UT Cares Committee Chair

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

  • Assistant to Gretchen Ritter

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

  • Assistant to Neal Armstrong
  • 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)

Janet Ellzey
Vice Provost
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 471-7020
jellzey@mail.utexas.edu

  • Co-op Goes Scholarships
  • International Programs

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
  • Information Management and Analysis

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
  • Staff Excellence Awards (Academic Units)
  • TA/AI tuition assistance
  • Travel requests for deans

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

  • Faculty Annual Reports
  • Faculty Endowed Position Appointments
  • Faculty modified instructional duties
  • 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)

Janet Hart
Executive 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, 471-4363
jhejl@mail.utexas.edu

  • Departmental Inventory Contact
  • Receptionist
  • Scheduling for Executive Vice Provost (backup)
  • Scheduling for Main 210 and 212
  • Student Staff Coordinator

Diana Hernandez
Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-5949, 471-4363
diana.noemi@mail.utexas.edu

  • Faculty Credentialing
  • Scheduling for Main 210 and 212

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

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

R. Michael Kerker
Associate Vice Provost
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
  • Requests for use of University facilities by outside groups
  • Student fee reviews
  • Staff grievances

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

  • Faculty Prior Approval Requests (PARs)
  • Faculty Recruitment Web
  • FICE and CIP code administration
  • 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
  • Gender Equity

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

  • International Program Liaison

Liliana Merubia
Sr. Administrative Associate
Phone: 232-4231
lmerubia@mail.utexas.edu

  • Assistant to Judith Langlois

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

  • Academic budgets
  • Academic open record requests
  • Approval of foreign travel for faculty and research staff
  • Division of Continuing and Extended Education contracts/service agreements
  • Entertainment expenses authorization
  • New position authorization, recruitment, and retention for faculty
  • Non-standard course hours (initial request)
  • Off-campus course approval
  • Option II and III programs
  • Post-tenure review for faculty
  • Renovations requests, facilities
  • Research scientist appointments
  • Retention and counteroffers for faculty
  • Shortened format courses (initial request)
  • STARS Funding
  • Space requests
  • Summer session course-load issues for faculty
  • Tuition waiver allocations
  • University Extension courses

Gretchen Ritter
Vice Provost
Professor, Government
Phone: 232-7252
ritterg@mail.utexas.edu

  • Academic advising liaison
  • Academy of Distinguished Teachers
  • Administrative structure (new units, name changes)
  • Awards for undergraduate students
  • Degree program approvals (substantive and nonsubstantive changes)
  • Faculty Council and catalog legislation
  • Interdisciplinary Programs
  • Outside employment
  • Service Learning
  • Teaching Awards
  • Textbook authorizations
  • University Standing Committees

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

  • Administrative and professional appointments (code 1000)
  • Department System Administrator
  • Digital measures
  • 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
  • Project Information Quest (IQ) - data warehouse
  • Workshop for department chairs/organized research unit directors


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