Beth Cunningham Email & Phone Number

College Park, Md

Responsibilities include: implements policy decisions and strategic objectives as established by the AAPT Executive Board; contributes to the Board’s agenda, prepares position papers, advises, and offers motions; contributes ideas, analyses, and initiatives for the formulation and realization of the long-term goals and vision of the Association; is responsible for articulating the AAPT goals to its membership and the different constituencies within the larger physics and science community; shares the responsibility with AAPT’s elected officers, particularly the President, to represent AAPT in a positive and professional manner to a variety of bodies such as local AAPT sections and other professional societies, foundations and government agencies; manages the day-to-day business and operations within the AAPT Executive Office; addresses a variety of needs of the AAPT membership and its many representative bodies; helps shape the ideas produced by AAPT committees and sections into organizational goals, operational plans, and fundable proposals; prepares and manages the organization’s budget following the guidelines set by the Executive Board; and is an active participant in AAPT’s important fund raising activities.

Responsibilities include: supervising the Associate Provosts, Associate Dean of the Faculty, and all academic department/program/school heads; overseeing the resources and administrative heads of the library, athletics programs, the registrar's office, and information technology; authorizing and recruiting new and replacement faculty members in consultation with department, program, and school heads; managing faculty resources to meet the needs of students in fulfilling program and degree requirements, including supervision of course offerings and scheduling of courses; evaluating individual faculty members in consultation with Department Chairs/School Directors and the Promotion and Tenure Committee with regard to advancement in rank, salary, and tenure; sharing with the Associate Dean of the Faculty administrative responsibilities for curricular design and the implementation of the will of the faculty in curricular matters; developing policies and planning procedures, in consultation with the Council on University Programs and Policy and the President; editing the Faculty Handbook; reviewing and approving operating budgets for all academic departments, programs, and schools; serving as the sexual harassment officer for the University.

Responsibilities include: design and supervise programs for faculty development in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and professional development; represent the Dean of Arts and Sciences on the Faculty Development Committee (during AY 2000-02), Faculty and Academic Personnel Committee, Committee on Academic Computing, and the Space Committee; assist faculty in applying for external grants; help administer mentoring program for junior faculty; hire and evaluate part-time and temporary faculty; assist the Dean of Arts and Sciences with merit reviews of tenured faculty; advise the Dean of Arts and Sciences in determining faculty replacement needs and costs; advise the Dean of Arts and Sciences with hiring of tenure track faculty; review academic department and interdisciplinary program capital budget requests and advise the Dean of Arts and Sciences concerning allocation of funds; and ex officio member of the Institutional Review Board. Special projects include: continuing conversation and development of undergraduate research in the College of Arts and Sciences; member of team developing and updating new grants webpage for faculty; search committee chair for the Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender during spring 2005.

Responsibilities included: updating faculty on annual changes to benefits and implementing cost sharing of health care benefits, reviewing the merit system by surveying the faculty and evaluating merit distribution of tenured faculty, making recommendations to the faculty regarding allocations to merit and across-the-board portions of faculty salaries, and presenting information about these issues during university wide faculty meetings.

Ph.D, Physics

M.A, Physics

B.S, Physics