Department Support Services
Mission
We actively partner with our department chairs and faculty as well as colleagues servicing other business units to support the educational and research mission of the university. Our primary goal is to provide timely, friendly, and innovative support for communication and administrative activities while being adaptable to evolving timelines and priorities.
Support Services include:
Administrative Support
- Administrative support for department chairs.
- Respond to questions from faculty, staff, and other business units. Provide feedback and guidance as well as direction to relevant resources.
- Coordinate/schedule and facilitate all faculty department meetings and other departmental meetings; create meeting agendas and minutes.
- Update department websites and social media pages.
- Facilitate voting for department business during meetings and other occasions as needed
- Create and disseminate surveys for multiple purposes.
- Collect and store course syllabi for each semester/session as well as respond to requests for syllabi.
- Disseminate information on behalf of the chairs and other entities to faculty and students.
- Assist with purchase and reimbursement requests by providing policy guidance, instructions, and/or submitting to CBS2 on behalf of others.
- Assist department chairs with course scheduling, collecting and organizing teaching preferences, IOR petition signatures, record-keeping and enrollment figures.
- Assist department chairs in monitoring department expenditures.
- Assist with hiring student assistants, limited staff hires, and course readers.
- Event support services including (but not limited to) event consultation, travel arrangements, payments, advertising, and reimbursements
- Work on special projects with SSHA leadership and staff as well as department chairs and faculty members.
- Serve as archivists for departmental records.
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Events Support
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Financial Services and Web Support
- Department financial account management
- Department website management
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Contact us at ssha.deptsupport@ucmerced.edu
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For inquiries, please email:
- General inquiries: ssha.deptsupport@ucmerced.edu
- Events: ssha.seminars@ucmerced.edu
- Finance: ssha.financial@ucmerced.edu
- Purchasing: https://cbs2.ucmerced.edu//
- Reception: ssha.reception@ucmerced.edu
- Reimbursements: https://cbs2.ucmerced.edu/
- Travel: https://cbs2.ucmerced.edu/
Policies & Support Materials
- Campus Purchasing (campus-wide)
- Travel (campus-wide) (e.g., Connexxus for travel arrangements, Express for travel reimbursements, and policies)
- Reimbursements - (Entertainment, travel, non-travel and non- entertainment)
Support Staff Contact Information
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Heidi Green Interim Department Support Lead (209) 382-4073 hgreen2@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 245 |
Heidi Green Department Specialist (209) 382-4073 hgreen2@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 255 EBM, POLI, SOC |
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Jocelyn De La Torre Department Specialist (209) 285-4403 jdelatorre27@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 254 A&HS, HCRES, PSY |
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Stephanie Lopez Department Specialist (209) 308-3329 slopez146@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 255 CIS, LLC, PH |
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Ericka Garcia Events & Department Support Coordinator (209) 201-8167 egarcia225@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 254 GAMWS |
Last Updated: May 2023