Last updated: March 20, 2024
Box Folder for Chairs - Sign into Box and the folder will be available to department chairs.
Outlook Calendar
Use this button to submit the happenings and news you would like to be known beyond the department. This can be events, faculty achievement news, information about an important deadline, or a story idea to highlight one of your students, faculty, alumni, and/or community partners.
Student Forms and Resources aimed for students' use are available under Current Students.
Faculty & Staff Guide to Supporting Mental Health [pdf]
Student Records Access Request Form
Pathway Help for Faculty/Staff
Grade Change Instructions [pdf]
Registrar's Resources for Faculty and Staff
Christen Melvin, HR Business Partner
Hannah Hohenstein-Flack (full-time hiring), Cynthia Beard (part-time hiring)
Academic Hiring - Faculty Affairs website
Linked below is a version of the full-time faculty hiring checklist for tenured, tenure-track, and ranked positions specific to SHSS; the parent version is linked from the Tenure Track Faculty Titles page of the Academic Hiring website.
Email Christen Melvin with the request to work out next steps.
For graduate assistants, there is a process each semester/academic year that will be communicated from the Dean's Office. See School of Graduate Studies website for form for appointments greater than 0.5 FTE.
For work study and undergraduate students: See Career Services. Other systems you might have/need access to:
FICA Form
Verification of HLC Credentials
FERPA Training Instructions
Leave of Absence Form UM-108 [pdf] - research/sabbatical
FMLA
Flex Schedule Request Form [pdf]
Telework Request Form [Cherwell portal]
Overtime Approval Request [pdf]
Benefits Information and Forms
Email Christen Melvin to initiate conversations about extra compensation or salary increase form.
Beth Vonnahme and Cynthia Beard
UMKC Travel Authorization Request
Bernardin Haskell Lecture Fund Request Form [pdf]
Overstreet, Weller Lecture Fund Request Form [pdf]
Honorarium Agreement [pdf]
Great Hall Reservations (Scofield 109) [pdf]
Insurance Equipment Checkout Form [pdf] – Used with University equipment taken off campus
Alex Holsinger (for faculty)
Beth Vonnahme (for staff)
Course Load Reduction Request [pdf]
These are updated right before the start of each semester. If needed, request change of contact for schedulers or catalog editors by emailing Alicen Lundberg.