Faculty & Staff Handbook

Welcome to the SCIS Faculty and Staff Handbook

The information assembled below will address many typical faculty needs. Feel free to let us know if there is some additional information that should be on this page by sending an email to dev@cis.fiu.edu.

Table of Contents:

Important Dates	Graduate Committee
SCIS Faculty Committee and Other Special Assignments	Recruitment Committee
Grants/Centers	Infrastructure Committee
Undergraduate Advisors	Annual Awards Committee
Undergraduate Committee	Elected Committees
Assessments	Major Codes
Faculty Services	Accreditation

Tenure and Promotion, Appointment and Promotion of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Sabbatical, Professional Development Leave, Leave of Absence, Outside Activities and Conflict of Interest, Deferred Earning Program, and Collective Bargaining.

Important Dates: 2011-12

• School Events
• Academic Calendar
• Employee Calendar
• University Events Calendar

SCIS Faculty Committee and Other Special Assignments for 2011-2012

• Undergraduate Program Director:Mark Weiss
• Graduate Program Director:Shu-Ching Chen
• SCIS WICS Faculty Advisor:TBA
• SCIS ACM Student Chapter Faculty Advisor:Kip Irvine
• SCIS Computer Science Honor Society Advisor:Peter Clarke
• SCIS PLUG Faculty Advisor:Nagarajan Prabakar
• Undergraduate Course Assessment Coordinator:Norman Pestaina
• ABET Program Review Preparation Coordinator:Norman Pestaina
• Research Colloquium Coordinator:Ming Zhao

Grants/Centers:

• S.S. Iyengar
• Shu-Ching Chen
• Niki Pissinou
• Naphtali Rishe
• Masoud Sadjadi

Undergraduate Advisors:

• Tim Downey (Head Advisor)
• Tiana Solis

Undergraduate Committee:

• Nagarajan Prabakar (Chair)
• Tim Downey
• Deng Pan
• Norman Pestaina
• Jinpeng Wei

Graduate Committee:

• Xudong He (Chair)
• Bogdan Carbunar
• Tao Li
• Jason Liu
• Jai Navlakha

Recruitment Committee:

• Tao Li (Chair)
• Xudong He
• Jason Liu
• Raju Rangaswami(Advisory)

Annual Awards Committee (last year’s awardees):

• Shu-Ching Chen (Chair)
• Tim Downey
• Kip Irvine
• Geoffrey Smith

Infrastructure Committee:

• David Barton (Chair)
• Steve Luis
• Alex Pelin

Elected Committees:

• Human Resources Committee:

  • Shu-Ching Chen (Chair)
  • Xudong He
  • Geoff Smith

• College Curriculum Committee Representative:

  • Nagarajan Prabakar

• College Library Committee Representative:

  • Deng Pan

• College T&P Committee Representative:

  • Xudong He

• College Faculty Council Representatives:

  • Shu-Ching Chen (2nd year)
  • Jason Liu (1st year)
  • TBD (alternate)

Assessments

For information about our IT and CS assessments, please see the following links:

• IT Assessments
• CS Assessments

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Faculty Services

• Faculty Course Appraisal System
• Faculty Activity Report System

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Major Codes

• Computer Science (CS) track - (Major code: COMPSC:BS)
• Software Design and Development (SDD) track - (Major code: COMPSC:BS SOFTDESGN2)
• Minor in Computer Science (CS) - (Major code: XCOMPSC:MN)
• Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology (as a single major) - (Major code: IT:BS)
• Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Technology (as a second major) - (Major code: IT:BA)

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Accreditation

The School of Computing and Information Sciences offers curricula leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. The Bachelor of Science program in Computer Science is accredited by:

Computing Accreditation Commission ABET
111 Market Place, Suite 1050
Baltimore, MD 21202-4012
Telephone 410-347-7700.

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Tenure and Promotion, Appointment and Promotion of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Sabbatical, Professional Development Leave, Leave of Absence, Outside Activities and Conflict of Interest, Deferred Earning Program, and Collective Bargaining.

http://academic.fiu.edu/faculty_resources.html

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Intellectual Property and Disclosure Form

http://research.fiu.edu/intellectualProperty/intellectualProperty.html