Staff

The Associate Provost serves as deputy to the Provost and is primarily responsible for curricular matters and maintaining integrity with regard to the University's Academic Policies. From entrance to graduation, the office is actively involved in West Chester University's students' academic careers in many ways. The office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs oversees program review and assessment, is a liaison to Curriculum and Academic Policies Council (CAPC) & the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), first-year student scheduling, provides leadership and coordination for the University's Student Success Transformation, reviews all probation and academic dismissals, maintains the repeat policy and grade actions, and oversees major publications related Academic Affairs. In addition, this position serves as the Graduate Dean, overseeing graduate admissions, enrollment, and academic programs.

This position performs management assignments that support the Academic Affairs Division and works effectively within an environment of distributed leadership. The Executive Associate is responsible for the daily administration of the Provost Office and supervision of clerical staff and manages projects within certain deadlines. Works closely with deans, Human Resources and faculty union on all aspects of the collective bargaining agreement, including workload and pay issues.
The position handles a variety of issues and projects for the Provost such as administrative searches, providing data, and writing reports. Coordinates all functions related to summer school workloads and payroll for faculty. Compiles reports, periodically prepares public remarks given by the provost, correspondence, and campus-wide announcements. Resolves problems and crises as they occur by working with senior administrators, chairs of campus committees, legal counsel, and State System administrators.

The Academic Affairs Budget Manager has overall responsibility for budget planning and coordination within the Academic Affairs division. This position works closely with executive Academic Affairs officers, including the Vice-President for Academic Affairs/Provost, the deans and the division directors to provide leadership, support and guidance for fiscal related matters of this division including planning, forecasting, expenditure control, and revenue enhancement. This position accomplishes these tasks by conducting financial and non-financial data analysis including reconciliation, modeling, projections and performance/productivity assessments. The Budget Manager also assists new deans and directors to acclimate them to the campus' decentralized environment. In addition, this position provides university-wide contributions through participation on various committees and task forces. Service on committees currently include: Deans' Council, the Administrative Budget Committee, the University Budget Committee, the Staff Recognition Day Committee, and the Strategic Planning Resource Council.

The writer-researcher assists the Office of the Provost in preparing remarks, reports, and newsletters. The writer-researcher is also on the staff of the Office of the President and helps with a variety of related projects for other areas of the University.

This position is responsible for providing support to the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost. The duties include answering phones, handling mail and assisting visitors, maintaining daily functions of the office such as copying, filing, ordering supplies, processing Procurement / Disbursement Requisitions (PDR's), travel vouchers and authorization forms and maintaining the Provost's calendar. This position is also responsible for the Academic Affairs Bi-Monthly Bullets and for coordinating the Annual Faculty Recognition Event and serves as the support person to the Tenure and Promotion Committee.