Michael Schreffler

Faculty Recruitment, Appointments, and Departmental Coordination

• Interview all junior candidates in the Division of the Arts (Art, Art History, and Design; Film, Television, and Theater; Sacred Music; and Music).
• Author or review departmental letters of offer.
• In consultation with the Dean, review recruitment of women, minority, and mission faculty candidates.
• Administer appointment process and materials in departments for the following:
  - Endowed chairs (including the organization of endowed chair committees)
  - Preliminary screening of promotion packets
  - Junior faculty
  - Visitor and adjunct faculty
  - Approve budget allocations for non-regular faculty appointments and salaries
• Administer faculty leaves.
• Administer salary appeals.
• Review and coordinate non-regular teaching, including postdoctoral and visiting scholar appointments.
• Develop and administer retirement agreements.
• Participate in departmental and program reviews.
• Prepare mid-term reviews of chairpersons.
• Administer department reviews (in conjunction with the Dean).
• Prepare a list of external reviewers of arts departments for the dean.
• Develop greater and more effective collaboration among programs, centers, and University arts facilities on issues and events related to the development of the arts at Notre Dame.
• Integrate the arts into the life of the College of Arts & Letters.
• Develop and implement strategies and programs for the recruitment of student majors.
• Administer appointment process and promotions for Teaching, Professor of the Practice, Advising, and Clinical (TPAC) faculty.
• Serve as point of contact to all Arts & Letters departments for Teaching, Professor of the Practice, Advising, and Clinical (TPAC) faculty hires and renewals.

Program Supervision

• Shakespeare at Notre Dame
• Sacred Music (in conjunction with Theology)
• Decade of the Arts
• DIME (Domer on Media and Entertainment)

Graduate Studies in the Arts

• Supervise the development of graduate programs within the Division of the Arts, including the Masters of Fine Arts and graduate certification programs.
• Consult and coordinate with the Department of Theology on development of the Sacred Music program.
• Compile annual metrics for graduate studies in the Arts.

Direct Reports

• Senior Administrative Coordinator
• Director, Center for Creative Computing (CCC)
• Director, Office of Digital Strategy, College of Arts & Letters
  Director, Technology & Digital Studies Program

Committee Assignments

• University Committee on the Arts (ad hoc)
• Arts & Letters College Council
• Arts & Letters Deans and Chairpersons
• Arts & Letters Executive Committee
• Arts & Letters Faculty Search Request Review Committee
• Arts & Letters Space Committee
• Pre-screening Committee for Non-Obligatory Promotions

Liaison Relationships

• Office of Academic Mission Support
• Office of Institutional Equity
• Graduate School
• DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
• Snite Research Center in the Visual Arts
• Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
• School of Architecture