Department Support Services
Mission
We actively partner with our department chairs and faculty as well as colleagues on campus to support the educational and research mission of the university. Our primary goal is to provide efficient and innovative support for communication and administrative activities while being adaptable to changing timelines and priorities.
Support Services include:
Admin Support
- Fielding questions from faculty, staff, and department chairs and guiding them to the relevant resources
- Coordinating faculty meetings, curriculum meetings, grad program meetings, calendar invites, and generating meeting minutes
- Updating the departmental website and social media pages
- Facilitate voting during and after the department meetings
- Disseminating information on behalf of the chair to students and faculty
- Coordinating requests/parking request for guest speakers
- Assist with the curriculum and teaching preferences, delivery, IOR petition signatures, class scheduling, record-keeping, and enrollment figures
- Assist with the purchase and travel reimbursement requests
- Serve as a repository for institutional memory
- Assist with hiring student assistants, and course readers.
- Prepare communications digest on behalf of the department chairs.
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Events Support
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Financial Services and Web Support
- Departmental financial accounts management
- Departmental website management
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Contact us at ssha.deptsupport@ucmerced.edu
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For inquiries, please email:
- General Support: ssha.deptsupport@ucmerced.edu
- Events: ssha.seminars@ucmerced.edu
- Finance: ssha.financial@ucmerced.edu
- Purchasing: https://act.ucmerced.edu/
- Reception: ssha.reception@ucmerced.edu
- Reimbursements: https://act.ucmerced.edu/
- Travel: https://act.ucmerced.edu/
Policies & Support Materials
- Campus Purchasing (campuswide)
- Travel (campuswide) (e.g. Connexxus for travel arrangements, Express for travel reimbursements, and policies)
Support Staff Contact Information
| Mohabbat Ahmadi Department Support Supervisor (209) 308-3329 mahmadi6@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 250 |
Heidi Green Department Specialist (209) 382-4073 hgreen2@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 257 EBM, GAMWS, LLC, POLI, SOC |
Nancy Higareda-Marquez Department Specialist (209) 201-8167 nhigareda@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 255 A&HS, CIS, HCRES, PH, PSY |
Austyn Smith Events Coordinator (209) 228-2280 asmith37@ucmerced.edu Office: COB-1, 257 |
Last Updated: 2020