Human Development and Family Sciences
The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) administrative teams provide units throughout the college with effective, responsive support in core functional areas, including communications, events, finance, human resources and information technology.
Staff in each area are committed to providing all units in the college support, and work to establish consistent policies, practices and processes enabling all members of the CEHD community to operate as effectively and efficiently as possible.
- Procurement – Information on UD policies and procedures.
- CEHD Financial Services Unit (FSU) – For CEHD-specific information, contact your departments’ representative within the FSU.
- Office of Educational Technology (OET) – Technical support including diagnosing hardware and software problems, configuring hardware and software, and consulting on software and equipment choices, website design and security issues. Submit a OET Ticket here.
- OET can help you access UD discounts when purchasing a computer and ensure you get approved, licensed programs and equipment for both office and personal use.
- CEHD Computing Security and Service Policy
- Office of Clinical Studies (OCS) – Contact OCS with questions or assistance in the placement of students for field experience.
- Human Resources – Onboarding information, benefits and more.
- Webforms – Webforms allow you to complete many tasks, including requesting sabbatical leave, conflict of interest disclosure, submitting a grade change, requesting to stop the tenure clock, or requesting a software license. See the list of forms under Blanks tab.
- Webviews – Information about pay and benefits is available in Webviews.
College Bylaws – College constitution
| College Faculty Council | College Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Committee | ||
| Steff Kotch-Jester (S25) | Kristin Scardamalia | Soo Bin Jang | Elizabeth Soslau |
| Jessica Namkung | Eugene Matusov | Roderick L. Carey | Ann Aviles |
| Sara Goldstein | Mellissa Gordon | College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee | |
| College Faculty Promotion & Tenure Committee | Lynsey Gibbons | Benjamin James | |
| Henry May | Bill Lewis (F24) | Kate Fialkowski | Rebecca Wilson |
| Erica Litke | Sara Goldstein | Jessica Slade | Rosalyn Washington |
| Roderick L. Carey | Myae Han | UD Faculty Senate | |
| Heather Farmer | Adrian Pasquarella | Fred Hofstetter | |
| College Graduate Curriculum Committee | Ruth Fluery-Steiner | Sara Goldstein | |
| Ethan McCormick | Charles Hohensee | ||
| Marika Ginsburg-Block | Ruth Fleury-Steiner | ||
| Jen Gallo-Fox | |||
- CEHD Awards – CEHD presents three awards to recognize outstanding faculty and staff. The CEHD Dean’s Faculty Research Award, Excellence in Teaching Award and the Rita Fillos Award are presented during our All College meetings, held in the spring and fall.
- CEHD Connections: internal newsletter for college employees featuring important events, administrative updates and useful resources from across the college, published during the first week of each month. Faculty and staff may submit announcements and updates through the submissions webform. Submissions received up to one week before publication will be included in the upcoming issue.
- CEHD Event Planning Request Form:To improve college-wide coordination, CEHD has created an Event Planning Request Form for units to use whenever requesting: The Dean’s attendance or participation, Event logistics and planning support and/or Communications and marketing support. Submitting requests early, and at least two weeks in advance, ensures a more efficient process for hosting events at the college. For questions about event planning, please contact Kelly Megee, assistant to the dean and event manager.
- Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning (CTAL) – Many services and resources to support your teaching, including help with course design, engaging students, assessing student learning and soliciting feedback.
- Undergraduate Advising Resources – Includes the Stellic platform, which helps UD leverage data and manage advising resources to improve student success.
- Conflict of Interest Policies in Research – By requiring full disclosures of potential conflicts from the members of the UD research community, the University seeks to maintain an environment of transparency that enables objectivity in research and ensures compliance.
- Faculty and Principal Investigators – Developed by the UD Research Office, this site supports the research activity of UD faculty and staff. Designed to help both first-time researchers and experienced veterans, tools are available to help prepare proposals, manage grants and present results.
- Institutional Review – All research involving living human subjects must be reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB).
- Assistantship/Research Assistant Support
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- Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program – CEHD helps identify undergraduate assistants for faculty research. To advertise your research position among applicable undergraduate students, please contact the assistant to the dean.
- Academic Year Graduate Student Assistantships – While most graduate student research assistants are funded through grants and teaching assistantships, CEHD provides select funding for academic-year assistantships to support the work of faculty. To apply for this type of support, please complete the form circulated by the director of research annually in March.
- Summer Graduate Research Assistant Program – CEHD co-funds with the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences and the School of Education students to work with professors 20 hours per week for a duration of eight weeks during each summer. To request graduate student research support, please complete the form circulated by the director of research annually in February.
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- Funding Opportunities – View available funding opportunities for sponsored research projects offered by federal and state agencies and private foundations.
- Grant Support
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- Grant Budgeting and Management Support – CEHD’s FSU provides excellent pre- and post-award support.
- Incentives/Support for Center Grants, Large Grants and Training Programs – Assistance is available in the form of administrative support, editing and course release for certain types of grants. Please contact the director of research to discuss support if you are planning to write a large grant (over one million dollars), a center grant or a training grant.
- Proposal Lab – Support is available for the review of your grant idea or proposal, either in a mock panel format or through individual feedback. Contact the director of research to learn more.
- Individual Support – The director of research is available to discuss your research idea, possible funding sources, collaborators, partners and more.