Saybrook

Adjunct Faculty

• Participate in all requisite Saybrook employee training
• Respond to Saybrook communication in a timely manner
• Serve in the capacity of dissertation chairperson, research methodologist, in alignment with college and department policy
• Collaborate and communicate with dissertation committee members to review and report on student progress
• Complete provided rubrics, provide relevant written feedback on student work using Track Changes
• Attend student proposal orals and dissertation orals
• Maintain technical skills related to Saybrook systems and procedures, including Canvas LMS, research administration (Mentor IRB), and petitions to form dissertation committee (Mentor Petitions)
• Facilitate ongoing communication with units within the Office of Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Projects (ORISP)

Adjunct Faculty – Dissertation Committee

Program Manager

• Provide leadership to achieve the highest possible level of excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and service activities by members of the academic department.
• Facilitate faculty and departmental goal setting annually.
• Establish a culture in support of openness to change and innovation.
• Oversee core and part-time faculty, facilitating equitable workload and contributions to departmental and university mission and goals.
• Guide and coordinate faculty workload planning to support faculty, attending to faculty professional desires and life-work balance while ensuring department and student needs are met.
• Monitor faculty engagement in courses to ensure quality teaching and effective communications with students.
• Ensure quality instruction based on institutional learning objectives.
• Maintain and implement processes for appointment, contract renewal, application for faculty rank, and professional development.
• Evaluate core faculty annually; maintain open channels for feedback throughout the year.
• Monitor adjunct faculty course engagement and course evaluations and provide appropriate guidance and supports.
• Assess part-time faculty performance when determining reappointment.
• Communicate and interact with Human Resource Services, Labor Relations, and the Office of General Counsel on personnel issues, when and as necessary.
• Coordinate execution of the unit's educational programs with the faculty, and schedule courses and assign instructors to these courses in consultation with specialization coordinators, the faculty, and the dean's office.
• Monitor course registrations and make appropriate adjustments in course schedules and instructor assignments in cooperation with other departments/areas/programs and the dean's office.
• Communicate new academic policies and procedures as well as grading/evaluation due dates to all faculty.
• Collaborate with Academic Affairs to deliver an effective faculty orientation program that includes a review of Saybrook University’s policies and LMS training.
• Plan and administer the unit's budget in consultation with the dean’s office.
• Manage budget expectations, and present departmental recruitment requests.
• Approve faculty and FWS schedules, pay and expenses.
• Serve as a central figure available to address questions, concerns, and communications from students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders with the expectation of a resolution of issues at the department level.
• Keep your Dean informed.
• Facilitate administrative and departmental faculty meetings and committees.
• Follow through on faculty and student inquiries and requests as it relates to academic progress.
• Lead the recruitment efforts, when resources are available, for replacement or net growth of faculty.
• The chair is responsible for making certain that the diversity goals of the department and college are met by assuring a diverse pool of highly qualified candidates.
• All core faculty are expected to play a key role in recruiting prospective students and processing student admissions.
• Review and interview applications and use the systems in place to move applicants through the review process in a timely manner.
• Develop relationships and maintain a system of regular communications with appropriate university and system partners.
• Coordinate and engage in annual academic program and faculty review processes to follow accreditation requirements as well as external accrediting bodies as required.
• Facilitate regular program reviews to maintain relevancy and pedagogical innovation.
• Monitor curriculum and recommend curricular changes to the department faculty to meet the changing needs of students and the University.
• Coordinate curricular changes initiated within the department before sending them on to the appropriate college and University committees.
• Support curricular and course development processes for new and existing programs, to keep content and pedagogy fresh and relevant.
• Regularly review and support degree program policies, coordinate catalog revision and update website managers with program changes.
• Propose new initiatives, programs, and projects; organize and facilitate approval of new course offerings and learning outcomes; support the upkeep, relevance, growth and maintenance of the academic program.
• Teach specific courses and serve on student research committees.
• All faculty members at Saybrook University are expected to be available and responsive to students.
• Course-level faculty engagement expectations are detailed in the faculty handbook.
• Utilize university offered resources to maintain technology skills specific and appropriate to each program and process.

Adjunct Faculty – Dissertation Committee

Clinical Psychology Program Director – Department Chair