Campus Unit Responsibilities
Campus unit responsibilities described below pertain to Freshmen Connection.
- 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.
- Adhere to the Freshmen Connection Scheduling Guidelines.
- Provide information required to generate course budgets and instructor contracts as per the Freshmen Connection 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 Freshmen Connection, academic units use fc@umd.edu (general questions) or fc-sched@umd.edu (scheduling-related), or exst@umd.edu.