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Undergraduate students should direct all questions to:

Office of Academic Services
140 Buttrick Hall
(615) 343-5495
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Additionally, see our undergraduate student resources.

Office of the Dean

Academic Deans

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Timothy P. McNamara

Searcy Family Dean of the College of Arts and Science

Timothy P. McNamara is a professor of psychology. He is an expert in human memory, cognition, and decision making, with a particular focus on spatial processing, has authored numerous books and journal articles, and runs the Spatial Memory and Navigation Lab at Vanderbilt.

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Bonnie Dow

Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs

Distinguished Professor of Communication of Science and Technology and Professor of Communication Studies

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Areas of responsibility:

  • All tenured, tenure-track, and continuing-track faculty affairs (appointments, reappointments, merit evaluation, leaves, retention, retirement, merit process)
  • Secondary and short-term faculty appointments (visiting scholar, adjunct and adjoint, secondary appointments, Maymester/summer appointments)
  • Faculty development
  • Faculty misconduct

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John A. McLean

Senior Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education

Stevenson Chair in Chemistry

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Areas of responsibility:

  • Graduate programs and accreditation
  • Graduate admissions and graduate school liaison
  • Oversight and approvals for the A&S Office of Research
  • Research appointments (including research-track faculty and postdoctoral scholars)
  • Research space, research misconduct, and coordination of major grants

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Allison Schachter

Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Winkelried Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and English

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Areas of responsibility:

  • Strategic leadership for the college's undergraduate academic programs
  • Day-to-day operations of undergraduate academics
  • Implementation and oversight of the A&S College Core
  • A&S pre-major advising

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Angela Sutton

Assistant Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Initiatives

Assistant Professor of Communication of Science and Technology

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Areas of responsibility:

  • Graduate program and certificate accreditation
  • A&S internal grant processes (professional development grants, course development summer salary grants, Immersion Scholar grants and Immersion mini-grants, publication subvention grants, Dean’s Research Studios, conference hosting support)
  • Secondary and short-term faculty appointments (visiting scholar, adjunct and adjoint, secondary appointments, Maymester/summer appointments)
  • Service on committees for targeted academic initiatives

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Elizabeth Meadows

Director of Undergraduate Education and Assistant Dean

Principal Senior Lecturer of English

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Areas of responsibility:

  • Student advising, overloads/withdrawals, other academic concerns
  • Academic policies and procedures
  • Programs and policies for study abroad, Maymesters, and travel-embedded courses
  • Point of contact for directors of undergraduate study
  • Partner to Admissions, Core Office, Immersion, and Residential Colleges

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Pavneet Aulakh

Assistant Dean

Senior Lecturer of English

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Areas of responsibility:

  • Dean’s Office liaison for the Student Care Network
  • Point of contact for students seeking support and faculty concerned about struggling students
  • Chair of Administrative Committee, which ensures students maintain expected progress toward degree and considers appeals for exceptions to college academic policies
  • Point of contact for students needing to take a leave (medical or personal) and more general academic advising

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Alissa Hare

Assistant Dean

Senior Lecturer of Chemistry

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Areas of responsibility:

  • Director of the College Scholars Program, organizing Honors Seminar courses and enrichment projects for students
  • Approves departmental honors
  • Chair of the Committee on Individual Programs (CIP) for individually designed interdisciplinary majors
  • Point of contact for internships for credit, for both faculty and students
  • Handles coursework variances from directors of undergraduate studies

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Mario Rewers

Assistant Dean

Senior Lecturer in Culture, Advocacy & Leadership

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Areas of responsibility:

  • Transfer advising
  • SACS evaluations for academic programs and the Core curriculum
  • Dean’s certifications for professional school applicants
  • 4+1 BA/MA programs
  • Probation screening and graduation checkout
  • Commencement

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