Associate Dean, Students (Science)
The Associate Dean, Students acts with full authority on behalf of the Assistant Vice-Principal (Dean of Learning and Teaching).
Responsibilities
- Oversee the undergraduate academic advising process.
- Consider requests for:
- late module changes
- Faculty transfers
- variations from programme requirements
- waivers of specific academic policies or regulations.
- Oversee:
- academic intervention process, including probation and termination of studies
- Honours entry process.
- Provide Faculty contact for:
- advice and policy or regulatory development on undergraduate academic matters
- advice on academic misconduct, including penalty approval
- serious student matters related to changes of circumstances including V-coding, leave of absence and student absence.
- Facilitate development of admissions strategy on student intake numbers with respect to degree type, programme, and entrant demographics.
- Oversee communication on academic issues with prospective students and offer holders.
- Identify admissions-related issues in the curriculum design and approvals process.
- Monitor patterns of student demand at module and programme level, and feed into curriculum design process.
- Contribute to the work of the Qualifications Group within the Admissions Unit.
- Approve penalties for cases of student academic misconduct.
- Provide academic advice and oversight for the evening degree programme.
- Convene examination boards and consider student appeals for ID modules.