Contact Deans

Each of the contact deans has a portfolio, as described below.

Dean of Undergraduate Studies  [[smpete, Sue Peterson]]

Administration and Supervision of:

• Degree/major/minor requirements
• Enrollment management for GERs and Freshman Seminars
• Grade reviews and changes
• Internships
• Office of Academic Advising
• Transfer initiatives, including community college co-enrollment program
• Strategic communications
• Student concerns

Liason to:

• Registrar's Office
• Student Affairs
• Undergraduate Admissions

Committee Responsibilities:

• Committee on Academic Status
• Committee on Degrees

Contact Departments/Programs:

• Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Geology, Government, International Relations, Kinesiology & Health Sciences, Mathematics, Military Science, Public Policy, Sociology

Dean for Educational Policy  [[srtand, Silvia Tandeciarz]]

Administration and Supervision of:

• Overall undergraduate curriculum and catalog requirements
• Summer school
• Undergraduate research database

Liason To:

• Reves Center

Committee Responsibilities

• Assessment Steering Committee
• Educational Policy Committee
• Study Abroad Committee
• W&M in Washington Program
• Writing Committee

Contact Departments/Programs:

• Art and Art History; Classical Studies; English; Global Studies; Modern Languages; Music; Philosophy; Religious Studies; Theatre, Speech, and Dance

Dean of Graduate Studies and Research  [[slsand, Laurie Sanderson]]

Administration and Supervision of:

• Office of Graduate Studies and Graduate Center

Liason to:

• Academic Common Market
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Graduate Studies Advisory Board
• Jefferson Laboratory
• Office of Grants and Research Administration
• Registrar's Office (graduate issues)
• Universities Space Research Association
• Virginia Council of Graduate Schools
• Virginia Microelectronics Consortium
• Virginia Space Grant Consortium

Committee Responsibilities:

• Committee on Graduate Studies

Contact Departments/Programs:

• American Studies, Anthropology, Applied Science, Computer Science, History, Physics, Psychology

Dean for Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies   [[jxschw, Joel Schwartz]]

Administration and Supervision of:

• Charles Center
• Grant development in the humanities and social sciences
• Honors
• May seminar program
• Monroe Scholars program
• Murray Scholars program
• New faculty orientation
• Prestigious scholarships
• Promoting undergraduate research
• Sharpe Programs
• Teaching Project

Committee Responsibilities:

• Committee on Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies

Contact Departments/Programs:

• Africana Studies, Environmental Science and Policy, Film Studies, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Neuroscience, Women's Studies