Allairion
Est. 1971

Lecturer Resume: Educational Administrative Posts

Formal Curriculum Evaluations

Full articulations of all transfer curricula (100+) from every public two-year college in New Jersey (19), to every undergraduate college (17) of every location (3) of Rutgers University.

Formal consulting educational evaluations specifically of Computer Science curricula, at their request, for:

Academic Advisor, Rutgers University
Dept of Computer Science, New Brunswick, NJ (7+ yrs)

Goal
  • To maximize faculty productivity by eliminating unnecessary interruption and administrative detail
  • to maximally facilitate student interaction with DCS specifically and Rutgers as a whole
  • to regularize and enhance the CS program for majors and others.
Policy
Involvement
  • Clarify, interpret, and implement academic policy and procedures, and devise new ones as necessary.
  • Assist in development of policy pertaining to curriculum; member DCS Curriculum Committee
  • Develop policy pertaining to admissions; actually formulated and implemented DCS admissions policy and admissions standards, including redesigning the former admissions policy and certification standards to achieve more consonance between the policies
  • Certify completion of major, balancing student performance with departmental and college(s) standards and mission(s).
  • Assist in development of policy pertaining to scholastic standing and educational policy; member DCS Scholastic Standing Committee; executive officer in charge of reviewing cases for appropriateness with latitude to pre-empt and make decisions in the name of the committee
Advising/Counseling
Students
  • Advise on major requirements, options, and college requirements, course selection, areas of interest, germane courses outside DCS for majors, appropriate DCS course for non-majors, etc.
  • Advise "pre"-majors and transfers as well as declared CS majors.
  • Developed 50-page manual of instruction for academic advising for instructional staff and (future) program coordinators
  • Developed/proposed new academic options for Agricultural Economics major at Cook College (department 11:373)
  • Counsel students with academic difficulties with regard to alternatives and options.
  • Refer/Report problems to appropriate other units: Dean of Students, Dean of Academics, etc.
  • Maintain student records to support above activities.
Represent the Department
on selected committees
and official functions, including:
  • Deans of colleges (Livingston, Douglass, Cook, Rutgers, Engineering, University College) with whom DCS shares students.
  • University services and offices, e.g., EOF, Career Development, Scheduling, Admissions, Registrar, etc.
  • Student groups, e.g., USACS (Undergraduate Student Association for CS).
  • Prospective students/recruits & families, especially scholars and athletes.
  • Employers; also the Co-operative Education Program.
  • Other educational institutions, e.g., addressing the periodic University conference for Transfer Officers from other institutions
  • External groups seeking information, e.g., Boy Scouts.
Course
Involvement
  • Advise on scheduling of courses, with an eye to faculty/adjunct loads and TA availability
  • Control enrollment, including development of special arrangements with Registrar for Pre-registration and DROP/ADD periods.
  • Evaluate other CS curricula, especially for transfer credit.
  • Adjunct Instructor: Introduction to Computer Science; Data Structures; Computer Architecture and Assembly Language; Introduction to Information Systems; DataBase Management Systems; DataBases. (See teaching)
Committees
  • Scholastic Standing Committee, DCS
  • Curriculum Committee, DCS
  • Advising Committee, DCS
  • Fellow, Douglass College
  • Fellow, Rutgers College

Transfer Coordinator, Admissions Dept
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (5 yrs)

Goal
  • To integrate the curricula of the public 2-year colleges with Rutgers University
  • To create a course database for Rutgers and the 2-year colleges as a whole
  • to regularize and enhance the the transfer process for all majors (including intra-University)
Accomplishments
  • I created 19 transfer books, one for each of the 19 public NJ 2-year colleges, each detailing specific requirements of curriculum transfer, each signed off by appropriate faculty officials representing each involved department, as well as the Presidents of each institution. The books included lists of equivalences for satisfaction of "area distribution requirements" as well as major curriculum requirements.
  • (As a side-effect) I also regularized intra-University transfer between the colleges of the University.
  • I computerized each book into a generalized database management system which, given a particular pair of colleges and major, could print a course-list citing the necessary courses at the sending institution to optimize the first 2 years toward the 4-year degree, and citing the Rutgers courses for which credit would thereby be earned.