Meet the Staff

For faculty assistance, please e-mail dofcore@pitzer.edu or call 909.621.8218.

Muriel Poston, Dean of Faculty
Fletcher Hall 204
909.621.8217
Fax: 909.607.7880
dean_faculty@pitzer.edu
 
   
Shannan Boss
Assistant to the Dean of Faculty
Fletcher 204
909.621.8217
Fax: 909.607.7880
shannan_boss@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
• Scheduling for the Dean of Faculty
• Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) coordination
• Committee Eligibility
• FEC/APT elections
• Faculty meeting coordination
• Scholar-in-Residence program
• Faculty personnel files
• Faculty annual reports, sabbatical reports, CVs
• Committee year-end reports
• Coordination of junior faculty annual meetings

Associate Deans

Thomas Poon
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty
Fletcher 202
909.621.8736
thomas_poon@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
• Faculty development
• Junior faculty annual meetings
• Academic advising
• WASC Accreditation Liaison Officer )ALO)
• Educational Policy Committee (EPC)
• Teaching and Learning Committee (TLC)
• Diversity Committee (DC)
• New faculty orientation
   
Leah Light
Associate Dean of Faculty for Research
Institutional Review Board
Broad Hall 105
909.607.3823
leah_light@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
• Institutional Review Board
• Faculty research opportunities
• Student research opportunities
   
Jeff Lewis
Associate Dean of Faculty Institutional Research
Fletcher Hall 214
909.607.3069
jeff_lewis@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
• Teaching and Learning Committee
• Academic Advising Concerns and First Year Advising Assignments
• First Year Seminar Coordination
   
Barbara Junisbai
Assistant Dean of Faculty
Fletcher 208
909.607.7304
Fax: 909.607.7880
barbara_junisbai@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
• Academic Deans Committee
• First-year advising assignments
• Liaison to the Office of Student Affairs
• Academic concerns/grade disputes
• On-campus academic events, conferences and symposia
• Liaison to the Office of Public Relations
• Liaison to the Office of Student Affairs
• Faculty immigration concerns
• Sexual harassment prevention training

Academic Administration

Sandy Hamilton
Director, Office of Graduate Fellowships/Academic Administration
Fletcher 212
909.607.9108
sandy_hamilton@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
Academic Administration
• Instructional Budget Officer
• Reimbursements and Honoraria
• Faculty Research and Awards
• Student Research and Awards
• Payroll for Dean of Faculty Reports and Student Hires (non-work-study)
• Curriculum Committee (Dean of Faculty Committee Representative)
• Course Forms
• Course Catalog
• Co-Curricular Outreach and Assessment
• First-Year Seminar Administration
• Claremont Avenues for Lifelong Learn (CALL) Program Liaison
• Model UN Liaison
Graduate Fellowships
• Fellowship Advising
• Fellowship Outreach and Programming
   
Katrina Sitar
Director of Faculty Services
Fletcher 210
909.621.8278
katrina_sitar@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
Appointments, Promotion and Tenure (APT)
• Tenure-track appointments
• Adjunct faculty hiring requests
• Faculty contracts
• Faculty review and promotion
• APT support
General Academic Administration
• Dean of Faculty office oversight
• Faculty Handbook
• Faculty profiles
• Academic Affairs website maintenance
• Support for accreditation and assessment
   

Dean of Faculty Core / Faculty Assistance / Faculty Recruitment

Telephone: 909.621.8218
E-Mail:
dofcore@pitzer.edu
Jennifer Markovski
Administrative Assistant
jennifer_markovski@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
Faculty Recruitment
• Advertisement of faculty positions
• Collection and maintenance of candidate records
• Scheduling of initial candidate interviews
• Coordination of logistics for on-campus visits
• Financial accounting of faculty searches
Faculty Assistance
• Faculty Core reception
• Faculty office supplies
• Faculty book order assistance
• Collection and posting of course syllabi
• Coordination of faculty conference calls
• Coordination of classroom changes
• General information resource for faculty
   
Diana Ferguson
Administrative Assistant
diana_ferguson@pitzer.edu
Duties and Responsibilities
Faculty Assistance
• Faculty Core reception
• Faculty A-Z maintenance
• Faculty office set-up and supplies
• Faculty office work orders (phone, furniture, maintenance, repairs, etc.)
• Faculty mailboxes and keys
• Faculty book order assistance
• Maintenance of faculty office hour schedules
• Coordination of faculty conference calls
• Coordination of classroom changes
• General information resource for faculty
Committee Support
• Support for Academic Standards Committee
• Support for Campus Life Committee (including related requests for checks)
• Support for Institutional Research Board
• Collecting and posting approved minutes of standing committees on Sakai
Faculty Recruitment
• Assist as needed
   

Office of Institutional Research

IR@pitzer.edu
Fax: 909.621.8481
Jason Rivera
Director of Institutional Research
Broad Center 204
909.607.7283
jason_rivera@pitzer.edu


 
   
Christine Victorino
Director of Academic Assessment
Avery 216
909.607.3949
christine_victorino@pitzer.edu