Dean of the Faculty
Month-by-Month Guide
- Teaching and advising award nominations are due to the Dean of the Faculty
- Chairs are asked to submit requests for faculty searches in the next year.
- Dossiers for senior lecturer reappointments and reappointments of assistant professors with January 1 start dates are due.
- Call for applications for faculty development funds and lectureship funds are sent to faculty
- Call for nominations for Named Assistant Professorships and Royce Professorships sent to chairs and directors
- Performance appraisals launch in Workday
- Graduate student Dissertation Completion Proposals are due
- Summer appointments for graduate students are due to the graduate school
- Program applications for new semester I proctorships are due to the graduate school.
- Final exam report on course offerings for spring are distributed
- Graduate school admission offer notification deadline.
- Deadline for creating or modifying online course evaluation forms.
- Applications for faculty development funds and lectureship funds are due (from individual faculty)
- Nominations for Named Assistant Professorships and Royce Professorships are due
- Performance appraisals due to UHR
April-May:
- Staff salary review process takes place.
- Departments are notified about search approvals for the following year.
- Departments are notified about their budget/special funding requests.
- Chairs typically arrange for administrative assignments (DUS, DGS, etc,) for the following year
- Excellence in Research Mentoring for Undergraduates Nomination due to the College
- Deadline for graduate programs to notify the graduate school of a new DGS, and set an online application cutoff for graduate admissions for the following year.
- Fall appointments for graduate students due to the graduate school.
- All graduating students’ final grades are due.
- Faculty proof for candidates for degrees distributed.
- Commencement
- Reports of Humanities Research Funds due to Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR).
- Deadline to notify graduate students of the potential for removal from program before the start of the spring semester.
- Course syllabi for fall semester due one week before courses begin (https://coursetools.brown.edu)
- Graduate school meeting with chairs and directors of graduate study
- Monthly Provost meetings and DoF lunches begin.
- TPAC workshop for chairs and department managers
- Reappointment dossiers for lecturers and assistant professors (with July 1 start dates) are due to TPAC
- Faculty Search Committee training sessions for faculty hosted by DOF and OIED
- Graduate student degree conferral for October graduates
- Annual reviews of untenured faculty due to the office of the Dean of the Faculty.
- Reappointment or promotion dossiers for TPAC due for some faculty. (Some will be due in the spring.)
- Graduate student evaluations and appointment projections due via Graduate School Information System (GSIM).
- Course proposals due in order to meet November pre-registration publication deadline
- Final exam report on course offerings for fall is distributed
- Graduate program appointments for semester II are due
- Clearance forms for probable December graduates are due
- Deadline for creating or modifying online course evaluations in Banner
- Preliminary reports for the Humanities Research Fund for the coming year are due to OVPR
- Begin building course offerings for the next AY in Banner Web
- Proposals for College Course Development Funding for the next AY available in UFunds.
- Teaching assignments for the following year are typically made. (Deadlines for inclusion in Banner are set by the Registrar. New course approval deadlines are set by the College Curriculum Council.)
- First-year seminar course proposals for next academic year are due
- DoF asks faculty to update their professional information in the Faculty Activity Report for the salary increase process
- Dossiers for promotions are due to TPAC
- Course syllabi for spring semester due one week before classes begin (https://coursetools.brown.edu)
- Sabbatical/other leave requests and course buyout forms submitted to chairs
- Chairs submit faculty leave requests to the DOF
- Dossiers for tenure cases are due to TPAC
- Nominations for named fellowships for incoming graduate students are due.
- Tenure Process Workshop for junior faculty members
- Budget templates are sent out to chairs, directors and department managers of academic units
- Graduate student degree conferral for February graduates
- Chairs are provided with the online faculty salary increase tool
- Budget templates are due the first week of February, and reviewed by Dean, Deputy Dean, and DOF Senior Analyst
- Call for teaching excellence and advising award nominations sent to chairs and directors
- Chairs meet individually with the Dean to review their salary submissions for their department faculty (this takes place from February through April)
- Staff self-appraisals launch in Workday
- Chairs are asked to designate first-year, sophomore, concentration advisors, and directors of undergraduate studies to the College (30% of their roster FTEs).
- Graduate School Meeting with Chairs and DGSs
- Mid-February Deadline for Course Offerings to appear in University Bulletin/CAB
- Mid -February edits to University Bulletin due