Meet the Staff & Unit Contact List

Julie H. Sandell, PhD, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs

Many of the activities within Faculty Affairs are administered by this part of the Provost’s Office, i.e., appointments and re-appointments, leaves, compensation, promotion, and recruitment. The Associate Provost oversees an experienced staff that facilitates these activities and processes these actions.

Ginny Gregory, Faculty Actions Director

Responsible for reviewing:

  • Initial appointment paperwork for ASCPs and PROFs (UAPT review materials go to Elaine Bidianos)
  • FT faculty reappointments (except for research and adjunct)
  • Non-academic leaves

Elaine Bidianos, Tenure and Promotion Coordinator

Responsible for reviewing:

  • Tenure and promotion dossiers
  • Initial appointment of ASCP or PROF dossiers (paperwork goes to Ginny Gregory)

Administrative contact:

  • UAPT Committee

Paul C. Lawrence, Payroll Specialist

Responsible for reviewing:

  • Faculty off-cycle salary increases (including per-course rate increases for PT lecturers)
  • Overbase requests for staff teaching a course
  • Overbase requests for faculty teaching additional courses (per overbase rules)
  • Summer Term
  • Faculty payroll (except for SMG)

Contact with questions regarding:

  • Faculty merit process
  • EARs

Suzanne L. Brown, Faculty Actions Research Specialist

Responsible for:

  • Affirmative action oversight
  • Search proposal process
  • Exit Survey
  • Resignation tracking
  • Faculty flux tracking

Marta Hodgkins-Sumner, Administrative Coordinator

Responsible for:

  • General administrative support to Academic Services area
  • Tracks incoming and outgoing paperwork; sends back approved paperwork to units
  • Creation of BU ID for full-time faculty
  • Faculty payroll for the School of Management

Contact with questions regarding:

  • Status of paperwork

Administrative contact:

  • AAC Committee contact