Academic Administration

Build the master schedule — assign courses to time slots, rooms, and instructors while respecting a maze of constraints: faculty preferences, room capacities, equipment needs (labs, lecture halls), student demand projections, accreditation contact-hour requirements, and the athletic schedule that blocks Tuesdays and Thursdays. Every semester is a massive constraint satisfaction problem solved with spreadsheets and institutional knowledge.

Prepare for accreditation visits that happen every 5-10 years but require years of continuous evidence collection. Write self-studies, compile data for IPEDS, manage program-level accreditation (AACSB, ABET, CAEP, CCNE), and respond to the annual data requests from state boards, NCAA, and ranking organizations. Every accreditor wants the same data in a slightly different format.