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:
- Fielding questions from faculty, staff and department chairs and guiding them to the relevant resources
- Coordinating faculty meetings, calendar invites, generating meeting minutes
- Updating 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
- Events support services
Contact
For inquiries, please email:
- 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
Office: COB-1, 250
Heidi Green
Department Specialist: EBM, POLI, SOC
(209) 382-4073
Office: COB-1, 255
Nancy Higareda-Marquez
Department Specialist: CIS, PH, PSY
(209) 201-8167
Office: COB-1, 255
Austyn Smith
Events Coordinator
(209) 228-2280
Office: COB-1, 254
Last Updated: July 2020