Campus Unit Responsibilities
Campus unit responsibilities described below pertain to Summer Session.
- Determine the overall courses to offer.
- Special Course-Program.
- Develop and deliver all instructional content.
- Develop learner outcomes and associated assessments.
- Housing, meals, field trips, or activities are arranged through Conference and Visitor Services.
- Oversee all updates/changes to content and logistics including waitlisted courses and minimum contact hour requirements.
- Manage all curriculum content.
- Identify and hire all instructors, TAs, and staff, ensure all receive access and training to university systems, including SIS and ELMS, ensure all understand requirements for syllabi, textbooks, supplies, class lists, and grades and submission deadlines.
- Provide required information for special course-program tuition and/or fee requests.
- Responsible the development, implementation, and oversight of individual program marketing effort. Programs may access the EXST marketing agency contract directly via Procurement and Business Services to request marketing directly from this approved vendor. Coordination with the agency and Procurement and Business Services, and all program-specific marketing costs are the responsibility of the academic unit.
- If developing a separate program microsite that is linked to the marketing effort, units must link and refer students to the official EXST program microsite for tuition and fees and policy information. Units should not post such information on the separate program microsite.
- Scheduling: Adhere to the Summer Session Scheduling Guidelines.
- Admissions: Oversee all aspects of admission for special course-program, particularly if there are additional requirements beyond EXST undergraduate admission protocols.
- Registration: Determine registration permission, including providing stamps as required.
- Advising and Assessment: Oversee all academic actions.
- Student Financials:
- Manage and post academic awards using the Student Award System.
- Manage all arrangements made with Conference and Visitor Services.
- Special Audience: Oversee all communication.
- Provide information required to generate course budgets and instructor contracts as per the Summer Session Scheduling Guidelines.
- Enter and update the demographic, degree, and I-9 Profile ID data in PHR for all new and current appointees. If the appointee does not have a current active appointment, the department also must process a non-paid appointment so that the appointee can be entered into SIS. This allows the appointee to obtain access to ELMS and other university resources.
- Review and take appropriate action on Breakeven Enrollment Reports.
- Submit course-related expenses by date posted in the scheduling guidelines.
- Develop and honor any third-party revenue sharing agreements.
- For course and program assistance, contact Anne Baum, Associate Director, Summer, Winter, and Undergraduate Programs, at 5-7762 or abaum@umd.edu.
- For budgeting, distribution, and operational assistance, contact Andrew Leighton, Director of Finance and Operations, at 5-0212 or aleighto@umd.edu.
- For Summer Session, academic units use summer@umd.edu (general questions) or summer-sched@umd.edu (scheduling-related), or exst@umd.edu.