Title: Associate Dean for Personnel, Hiring, Planning and Scholarly Research
Office: B-4-232 MAK
Phone: (616) 331-8837
Fax: (616) 331-3675
Email:  [email protected]

Faculty Personnel Issues

• Liaison with CLAS Personnel Committee
• Liaison with Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Liaison with Human Resources
• Support Faculty Before and during the Personnel Process
• Support Unit Heads and monitor performance improvement plans.
• University and CLAS policies and procedures relating to faculty.
• Manage the complaint and grievance process by or relating to faculty (in collaboration with Dwayne when climate issues are involved)
• Outside Employment
• Faculty Qualification Assurance Approvals
• Phased Retirement Plans
• Salary Evaluation Process
• Approval for Unit Personal Documents
• Approve Grad Faculty Applications
• Approve Intent to Lead Study Abroad Forms
• Provide Support to Unit Heads and Faculty during the Sabbatical Review Process, including management of sabbatical change requests
• Alternate Workload Plans
• Retaining Faculty after retirement
• Manage Emeritus Process (in collaboration with Susan)
• Liaise with Brooks re: personnel

 

Workload/Reassigned Time

• Review/Revise current reassigned time and approve requests for new reassigned time
• Answer questions from unit heads re: reassigned time, workload balance
• Negotiate Contracts and Leaves (joint appointments, maternity leave, phased retirement, reassigned time, overload pay, emergency teaching contracts)
• Lead on 399, 499, 699, and Internship Compensation Conversations
• Maintain Records and Review Course Specific Workload Data
• Monitor Staffing Plans
• Support Faculty Thriving

 

Support Unit Heads

• Connect with First-Year Unit Heads
• Unit Head Development
• Unit Head Agenda Committee
• Unit Head Appointment Process
• Unit Head Evaluation for Reappointment

 

Managing the hiring of faculty, especially affiliate, visiting, and adjunct faculty

• Manage Unit Hiring Plans
• Manage Communications re: TT/AFF Hiring Process
• Collaborate with the AD for Inclusion re: process for hiring tenure-track faculty

 

Faculty Development (collaboration with the AD for Inclusive Excellence and Curriculum)

• New Faculty Development and Support (Collaboration with AD for Inclusive Excellence and Curriculum)
• Liaison with the CLAS Faculty Development Committee
• Liaison with CLAS Affiliate Faculty Advisory Committee.

 

Facilities, Space and Equipment

• Oversee space use and advocate for CLAS teaching and research needs, including
  • New space allocations/needs
  • New building development
  • Allocation of research space

Start-up funds and shared equipment requests

Strategic Planning oversight

International Exchanges (Germany/Italy-PLS)

Workday Approvals for Dean

Assessment

• Review and approve assessment plans

 

Collaborate with AD for Analytics to gather data on

• High impact learning
• Service learning, inventorying out of state learning
• Experiential learning
• Workload

 

Scholarly Research and Creative Activities

• Serve as CLAS liaison with the Office of the Provost to support scholarly and creative activity, and external funding development
• Serve as CLAS liaison with Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence (CSCE) and the Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship (OURS)
• Support for College Graduate Programs
  • Promotion of research, community partnerships and grant opportunities
  • Convene discussions among college program directors

 

Serve as Final Adjudicator on Student Academic Grievances

Dan Bergman is a Professor of Physiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. He was the Department Chair for 10 years before joining the Dean’s Office. Before GVSU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kentucky in the College of Medicine in the Department of Physiology, where he was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. He holds Ph.D. and B.S. degrees from Bowling Green State University. Dan also worked previously at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, which is one of two public HBCUs in Kentucky. And he worked at the University of Michigan Biological Station at their Stream Research Facility.

Dan’s research and teaching expertise is in physiology, neuroscience, pathology, and nutrition.  His lab group researches various topics in the biomedical sciences, such as neuronal injury and repair, neuropharmacology, sensory system perception, aggression, and neural and hormonal health effects from pollutants.  He has worked with hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students in his lab, many moving onto MD, DO, PhD, MS, PAS, and PT programs.  His students have given 50+ presentations at international and national professional science conferences, as well as numerous local meeting presentations. He has been an active reviewer for more than a dozen professional journals and agencies. Dan has given numerous presentations on these topics at professional conferences, colloquia, and public lectures. And he has published numerous papers and abstracts, as well as a book.