1. Dr. Abraham, Associate Dean

2.  Semesters consist of 14 weeks of instruction + 1 week of finals. Typical 3-credit class period is 80 minutes long twice per week (no break).  Fall semester ranges from August 27 to December 15. Thanksgiving break Wed (all day) through Sunday. Labor Day and Veteran’s Day are both Mondays.  Friday September 7 is the last day for a student to register (with instructor) permission.  Friday November 2 is the last day for a student to drop a class.

3.  Spring semester ranges from January 14 to May 4 with the week of March 3 for spring break.  Summer breaks into two 7-week sessions. Summer 1 ranges May 13 to June 28. Summer 2 ranges July 1 to August 17. Full 14-week session as well.  Grades due on Wednesdays at noon after all sessions.

4.  Cheri Russo— Communications and Marketing Manager, former journalist and web page editor at WOUB; adjunct in journalism at OU. (replaces Jenny LaRue)  Judith Carey-Nevin-- Library Director, former Reference Services Coordinator at Otterbein, Reference and Instructional Librarian at Piedmont Virginia Community College (replaces Ann Watson)  Lindsey Moore—recent grad taking on a temporary assignment at our information desk. Made some nice contributions to our web pages as a student worker.

5.  Academics  Academic Support  Faculty/Staff  News and Events Feeders

6.  Final Exam Schedule: All classes have a pre-defined two-hour exam slot (including night classes). RCs will follow the same final exam schedule. Using last Saturday for Saturday classes. Athens will have a separate final exam schedule.  Adjunct Rule: Allows continuous teaching (no built in break) however load is limited to less than 30 semester hours over a two year period.

7.  Salary per credit hour: adjusted approximately by a factor of 1.5 from quarters.  Salary distributed over bi-monthly pays from September 15 to December 15.  Objective for courses readily available in OCEAN system (or by request).

8.  More unassigned adjunct space.  Scantron moving out of the 3 rd floor adjunct space.  Instructor Office hours/location going online.  Book orders into the registrar’s textbook system.  Remind students about the date to drop a class— remind them to double-check their schedule

9.  Use the FS and FN to help stop financial aid fraud.  Resolve discrepancies in your class roster by the end of the 2 nd week—everyone who is attending should be on your official class list (if not contact Cindy Maylemaylec), conversely everyone on your roster should be attending regularly (if not contact Phyllis Lanierhughesp).  Need to submit syllabi to Fran Cordle cordle@ohio.edu