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New faculty onboarding

Welcome to the Mount Holyoke College CS Department!

The CS administrative and technical staff are here to help facilitate your teaching and research! Here's a brief overview of who does what.

administrative support for searches, new hires, promotions, reviews, tenure cases, and sabbatical replacements and for department meetings, and committees
submit course schedules, maintain the web catalog and department/program website, copy / print course materials, scan exams for digital grading, submit final exams to registrar's office
help with new course proposals, maintain online archive of all course syllabi, work with faculty to clear senior advisees
assist students with declarations of majors, assign advisors to majors, serve as liaison for credit approval for outside courses
work with student boards & clubs, including the CS Society, TAs, and peer mentoring program.
monitor the operating budget, department purchasing card account, restricted funds budgets, and petty cash; assist with purchasing
manage student jobs on Workday, support student learning initiatives manager when hiring TAs and peer mentors, supervise other student workers.
plan, coordinate and publicize department events such as Commencement & Reunion, Department-at-Home, department lunches, lectures, talks, readings, and symposia
schedule and coordinate the use of building space; track building maintenance issues; monitor classrooms & teaching labs, photocopier/MFD, and keys.
communicate with faculty, students, vendors and the campus community; create a welcoming, service-oriented point of contact for the department.

coordinate selection and training of all teaching assistants
engage department in ongoing discussions about the most effective use of TA time
assign all COMSC-151 and COMSC-205 students to a student mentor
organize workshops to help support student skills and wellbeing
provide guidance for students struggling to manage workload

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