The Program Leader role is a two-year rotation for one faculty member from within each program area in the School. This should be a tenured or a clinical faculty member but in general, not an untenured faculty member working to achieve tenure and promotion. At the end of the two years, the Program Leader will receive a course reduction for the semester of his/her choice. Program Leaders serve as conveners, coordinators and facilitators of the faculty and the work to be accomplished each year for the program. In addition, the Program Leader is essential in helping establish and carry out the vision for the program area.

In addition, the Program Leader sets the agenda each fall for continuous improvement and strategic direction for the area. The Dean’s goal is to improve processes to limit the amount of administrative work for the Program Leader so that the role is focused as much as possible on substantive work. Each program has an Associate Dean, the accreditation office, the outreach and admissions office, the student services office and the information and academic technology office to support his/her work. It is important for the Program Leader to liaison well with people in all of these areas on behalf of his or her program area.

Program Leaders are responsible for the following related to program reauthorization, accreditation and program effectiveness:

• Serve as the main point of contact and accountability for all state (CDE/CDHE) program authorization/reauthorization and Higher Learning Commission (HLC) review/accreditation processes. This means working to understand the requirements of these processes as shared at Program Leaders’ Meetings, conveying these requirements to their program faculty colleagues, and facilitating efforts within programs to meet these requirements.
• Ensure their program provides an annual HLC Program Outcomes and Assessment Report due early in the fall term. Also along with the Associate Deans aligned with their programs, the Program Leaders are responsible for ensuring all deadlines for these processes are met.
• Ensure program outcomes and assessment information remains current and accessible in the program section of the SEHD web site.
• Facilitate collection of program-level assessment results. This includes ensuring faculty/instructors who administer program-level assessments in their courses capture assessment results in LiveText (by embedding LiveText rubrics in their Canvas shell or separately entering results in LiveText).
• Serve as the main point of contact for all school-wide and program level continuous improvement efforts. This includes staying up to date on program improvement data/information available through the University Dashboard System (tableau), LiveText, and provided by the SEHD Assessment and Program Improvement Office. It also includes facilitating dialogue among program faculty regarding using this data/information for program improvement, and documenting program improvements made as a result.

Send any questions, comments or concerns to Julie O’Brian, Executive Director, of Assessment and Program Improvement.

• Navigate and forward prospective students to education@ucdenver.edu or 303-315-6300. The Office of Recruitment and Outreach (R&O) will happily follow up and track all prospective student communication.
• Help coordinate faculty representation at SEHD recruitment events (i.e. open house, webinars, and information sessions, outreach events). Specific dates will be determined in time for the Fall staff/faculty retreat.
• Nominate 2-3 students and/or alumni to represent your program throughout academic year. Send nominations to by Marlinda.Hines@ucdenver.edu September 1^st .
• Notify R&O staff if your program makes any substantial changes to admissions requirements, deadlines or academic curriculum.
• Inform R&O staff of your program’s recruitment needs and goals (i.e. new enrollment minimum capacity, diversity, quality of applicants, experience of applicants, etc.)
• Develop and share a narrative of what the ideal candidates looks like for your program.

Contact Marlinda Hines, Recruitment & Outreach Manager with questions or comments, Marlinda.Hines@ucdenver.edu.

All program areas work, to some degree, with D2, our off-campus and partnerships delivery unit. Sometimes this includes offering individual classes, sometimes certificate programs, other times by approving coursework to “transfer in” from a partnership or PD offering. The program earns 10% of the total revenue from D2 offerings. Each program area assigns a representative to act as liaison to D2, to approve courses, instructors, and schedules. It is the responsibility of the program leader to make sure that a liaison is appointed.

Contact Shannon Hagerman, Executive Director, Continuing and Professional Education

(CPE)for questions or comments, Shannon.Hagerman@ucdenver.edu.

• Assist your faculty with developing their professional plans.
• Review Instructors, Adjuncts and NTT Faculty FCQs, and advise as appropriate.
• Mentor Instructor/Adjunct faculty members.
• Assist faculty with student’s issues and concerns.

Please contact the Office of Faculty Affairs, Dr. Dorothy Garrison-Wade at dorothy.garrison-wade@ucdenver.edu with Faculty Affairs issues and concerns.

• Review monthly program financial reports and report any discrepancies or problems to Assistant Dean Patricia Ball.
• Monitor faculty course load and make sure faculty have the appropriate numbers of courses to fulfill workload.
• Prepare and submit program budgets at the beginning of the academic year.
• Approve expenditures of program area funds for items such as travel, conference expenses, and professional resources.

SEHD’s marketing office is responsible for collaborating with SEHD faculty, staff, students and alumni as well as University Communications, CU Online and the CU Foundation to advance SEHD’s image and standing among wide-ranging target audiences. Julia Cummings is the marketing director. Please reach out to her if you have a marketing need or question at Julia.Cummings@ucdenver.edu / 303-315-6339. The marketing office creates and help supports:

• Marketing plans and strategy
• Advertising
• Branding
• Electronic communications
• Event websites and RSVPs
• Graphic design
• Photography
• Press releases and PR (media inquiries and pitches)
• Print materials (information sheets, flyers, SEHD publications)
• Purchasing of promotional items
• Social media
• Sponsorships
• Story ideas and writing of stories for Edge magazine, CU Denver News, CU Connections
• Videos
• Website content (Please email SEHDHelp@ucdenver.edu with your web needs/suggestions. SEHD’s tech team will involve marketing as needed for the drafting of web copy, approvals, coordination with academic services, copyedits, etc.)

Collaborate as-needed as a program-liaison on:

• development of digital teaching & learning, e.g. analysis and development of online programs, online/hybrid courses, etc.
• development of digital student support services, e.g. customer relationship management (CRM), web development, etc.
• school-wide infrastructure initiatives, e.g. smart classrooms, file storage, data systems, etc.
• program-level technology purchasing and planning, e.g. program needs/purchases of software, hardware, cloud services, etc.

Please contact Brad Hinson, Assistant Dean of Information & Academic Technology with ideas, questions, or concerns.

• Admissions Decisions for the Program Area are completed in a timely and thorough manner.
• Arranging for program faculty to attend New Student Orientations as requested.
• Working closely with Program Advisers and Faculty Advisers to hold program and individual advising sessions. Make sure that all advising forms are accurate. Acting to solve student problems that the program adviser or individual faculty cannot resolve.
• Adding new information & making corrections to Student Handbooks.
• Making sure that processes and deadlines for professional learning assessments, portfolios, and exams are completed by program area faculty.
• Organizing selection of an outstanding graduate for the program area for summer/fall and spring graduation.
• Encouraging faculty to attend graduation and the SEHD graduation party.

Please contact: Sandy Mondragon, Asst. Dean for Student Success & Enrollment Management, with ideas, questions, or concerns.

• Coordinate course enrollment decisions, including splitting, or cancelling courses when necessary.
• Connect with Instructors/Lecturers for teaching and pro-rating when necessary.

Please submit all lecturer hire requests as far in advance as possible to ensure all paperwork is completed before start of the term.

Curriculum Committee Deadline Requirements: To ensure that the Curriculum Committee has time to review the credentials for each new Lecturer before the start of classes, please use the following deadline dates to help you plan ahead for the hiring process:

• Teaching in Spring semester 2025 – submit Hire Request Form details by November 25th.
• Teaching in Summer or Fall semester 2024 – submit Hire Request Form details by April 22nd.

1. Program leader or their designate complete the applicable form on IMPACT: HR New Hire Request Form: (to initiate hiring process, forms, onboarding, etc)

2. Lecturer applies to a Lecturer posting on CU Careers. The postings are updated approximately every year usually in the fall.

• On-Campus (D1) courses (Please send this link to any candidates you are considering: https://sehd.link/D1)
• Continuing & Professional Education (D2) courses (Please send this link to any candidates you are considering: https://sehd.link/D2)
• Partner school Site Professors: (Please send this link to any candidates you are considering: https://sehd.link/D1)
• Program-specific postings are possible as well, for recent examples School Psychology, Couple & Family Therapy. If you're interested to work with SEHD HR to create a program-specific posting, please complete the HR Search Form: Job Posting – Lecturer Request

PLEASE NOTE: All new Lecturers must apply online before being hired. Those who teach in a “Graduate Part-Time Instructor” title can either apply to the student-facing GPTI posting on Handshake or to our Lecturer posting on CU Careers.

3. SEHD HR will reach out to the new colleague about new hire paperwork including background check. New hires cannot start their position until the background check is completed and they have received notification from campus HR that they have passed. This process can take anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks.

4. Following the completion of the background check, Shakira will work on the CU SIS/CANVAS setups. It may take the Course Registrar several weeks to grant this access.

It is possible to complete all of the paperwork for a new hire in anticipation of a class being offered to them in a future semester. This would allow the hiring requirements to be completed and saved on file. SEHD HR will work through all the onboarding steps and set up the employee ID and email address. Then we wait to see if a class is available for them to teach before setting up the payments. If you are interested in this option, please select this button underneath “Term” on the Hire Request Form: “No immediate teaching assignment right now. Please add to pool for teaching in future terms”

If the person you are interested to welcome as a Lecturer is a PERA or CU retiree, or intends to retire soon, please review the related policy, APS 5054 here: https://www.cu.edu/ope/aps/5054

Please contact SEHD HR (sehdhr@ucdenver.edu) with questions about the hiring process.

For full details about TA appointments see this section of the wiki: https://wiki.cu.studio/handbooks/pattern_of_administration#teaching_assistantssecondary_instructors

Please submit Teaching Assistant hire requests as soon as possible when your class has qualified for a TA. This allows time to complete the background check and hiring forms and get their access to Canvas set up.

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If you have any questions or would like in-person training please contact Erika Larson.