Michael Pries

Faculty Recruitment, Appointments, and Departmental Coordination

• Interview all junior candidates in the Social Sciences (Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology) and Africana Studies.
• Review departmental letters of offer in the Division of Social Sciences.
• Administer appointment process and materials in Social Science departments for the following:
  - Endowed chairs (including the organization of endowed chair committees)
  - Preliminary screening of promotion packets in the Social Sciences
  - Junior faculty
  - Visitor and adjunct faculty
  - Approve budget allocations for non-regular faculty appointments and salaries
• Administer faculty leaves within the Division of Social Sciences.
• Administer salary appeals within the Division of Social Sciences.
• Review and coordinate non-Regular teaching within the Division of Social Sciences, including postdoctoral and visiting scholar appointments.
• Develop and administer retirement agreements within the Division of Social Sciences.
• Prepare mid-term reviews of chairpersons within the Division of Social Sciences.
• In consultation with the Dean, review recruitment of women, minority, and mission faculty candidates.
• Participate in departmental and program reviews in the Division of Social Sciences.
• Prepare for the Dean a list of external reviewers of departments in the Social Sciences.
• Administer department reviews (in conjunction with the Dean and the Office of Strategic Planning) within the Division of Social Sciences.

Program Supervision

• Gender Studies
• Computing and Digital Technologies
• Arts and Letters Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences

• Supervise graduate programs in the Division of Social Sciences, including the Ph.D. in Peace Studies.
• Review annual metrics for graduate studies in the Social Sciences.
• Coordinate, as needed, external surveys of Arts and Letters graduate studies and faculty research.
• Administer graduate student space allocations.

Direct Reports

• Sr. Administrative Coordinator
• Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA)
• Director, Computing and Digital Technologies Program (CDT)
• Directors of interdisciplinary centers and programs (excluding undergraduate interdisciplinary minors) within the College (e.g., for appointments and budgets), including:
  - Center for Children and Families (CCF)
  - Center for Social Research (CSR) (joint report with Office of Research)
  - Center for the Study of Religion and Society
  - Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change
  - Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
  - Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy
• Journal editors (general supervision of all journals and journal support agreements)

Committee Assignments

• Arts and Letters College Council
• Arts and Letters Deans and Chairpersons
• Arts and Letters Executive Committee
• Arts and Letters Faculty Search Request Review Committee
• Arts and Letters Leave Committee
• Arts and Letters Space Committee
• College Laboratory Safety Committee (chair)
• Center for Research Computing Advisory Committee
• Limited Submissions Review Committee, Office of Research
• Pre-screening Committee for Non-Obligatory Promotions
• Strategic Research Committee, Office of Research
• Graduate School Leadership Committee, Graduate School
• Social Sciences Building Planning Committee (co-chair)
• Academic and Faculty Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees (Social Science representative)

Liaison Relationships

• Graduate School
• Office of Research
• Center for Research Computing (CRC)
• University Libraries