Dr. Abraham, Associate Dean

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.

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.

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.

Academics Academic Support Faculty/Staff News and Events Feeders

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.

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).

More unassigned adjunct space.

Scantron moving out of the 3rd 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

Use the FS and FN to help stop financial aid fraud.

Resolve discrepancies in your class roster by the end

of the 2nd 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