University Organization – Structure and Decision Making
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
President’s Office
• See ACD 102 for definition of President’s role.
He is the chief executive officer
(http://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd102.ht
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• Direct reports to the President – Joyce
Smitheran, Provost, EVP/CFO, Sr. VP OKED,
General Counsel, Athletic Director, Sr. VP & Univ
Planner, Sr. VP and Chief of Staff, Sr. VP EOSS,
Sr. VP and Pres of ASU Alumni, VP Public
Affairs, Chief Marketing Officer, CEO - ASUF, 8
advisors.
Office of the University Provost
• Direct reports – all deans, dean of
entrepreneurship jointly reports to Provost
and Sr. VP OKED. Chief Technology
Officer reports jointly to Provost and CFO.
• Deputy Provost, Vice Provosts
• See:
https://provost.asu.edu/sites/default/files/a
su-provost-org-chart_0.pdf
Decision-Making
• The University Senate is the
representative body of the faculty
members as defined in the constitution of
the Senate which is in ACD 112-01.
• The Senate makes recommendations on a
wide range of matters involving policy and
curriculum.
• The President decides but can and does
delegate to the Provost and others.
Decision-Making
• Issues are not neatly placed in one office
or another. As a typical matter, academic
policies are approved by the Provost.
• Deans may decide on policies within their
colleges/schools/institute in keeping with
ACD policy and any consultative
mechanism they have in the college for
faculty engagement.
Decision-Making
• Colleges can decide on hiring one year
academic faculty and staff as well as that funded
by external sources such as grants. Colleges
need to have an approved hiring plan to hire
multi year and tenure track faculty. Within
budget provisions and policy, deans can decide
to purchase things as needed, put on events,
etc. to advance their unit.
• Dept Chairs/School Directors have authority
from the dean and will have unit bylaws to guide.
Senate: Shared governance
• Collaboration through established
structures and procedures between
university administration and elected
representation of the Academic Assembly
(the University Senate, University
Academic Council, and Senate
committees)
• http://usenate.asu.edu
Shared governance
• Administrators and or staff designee’s
often serve as ex officio members to the
Senate, UAC, and senate committees.
• Assembly members serve on University
committees
Senate Representatives
• Single University Senate-representation
from each degree granting unit or other
units (academic support or research
entities)
• UAC (members Presidents, Presidentelects and immediate past presidents
serve as the executive board of the
senate)
Senate leadership:
Tempe Campus
• Helene Ossipov President and chair of
UAC
• Cynthia Tompkins-President
• Arnold Maltz-President elect
• Chouki El Hamel-Immediate Past
President
Senate leadership:
Polytechnic campus
• Kathleen Puckett-President
• Keith Hollinger-President-elect
• Thomas Schildgen-Immediate past
president and past UAC president and
chair (2013-2014)
Senate leadership:
Downtown Phoenix Campus
• Brenda Hosley (President) & (President &
chair elect of UAC)
• Kristin Hoffner (President-Elect)
• Sandra Mayol Kreiser (Immediate Past
President)
Senate leadership:
West Campus
• Shari Collins (President)
• Alejandra Elenes (President-elect)
• Barbara Guzzetti (Immediate PastPresident)
Senate Leadership
• Chris Kyselka: Secretary of the Academic
Assembly and University Senate, ex
officio/non voting
Decision Making
• Dispersed throughout the university
• UAC and University Senate may be
solicited to promote shared governance
Office of Knowledge Enterprise
Development
https://research.asu.edu/
Leadership
• Strategic Industry Collaboration
– Keith Walton, Vice President
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation
– Mitzi Montoya, Vice President & University Dean
• Strategic Project Development & Acquisition
– Betsy Cantwell, Deputy Vice President
• Global Project Development & Acquisition
– Stephen Feinson, Associate Vice President
Leadership
• Science, Engineering, & Technology
– William Petuskey, Associate Vice President
• Social Sciences
– Alex Brewis-Slade, Associate Vice President
• Arts & Humanities
– George Justice, Associate Vice President
Research Investment/Support
• Advances through the appropriate
academic and research units
• Typically, there is a co-investment strategy
• Focus is on investments that secure
additional external funding and can be
leveraged by multiple research areas
Committees
• Research and Creative Activities
• Institutional Review Board (2 Bioscience and
Social Behavioral Science)
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• Animal Users Advisory Committee
• IP and COI Committee
• Institutional Biosafety Committee
• Radiation Safety
• Laboratory Safety – in development