Academic Personnel
The Provost’s Academic Personnel team oversees employment-related actions and programs specific to faculty and librarians including:
- Reappointment, promotion, and tenure processes
- Union contract issues and negotiations for faculty, graduate student employees, and post-doc research associates
- Supporting the University’s Academic Personnel Workflow System (APWS)
- Providing leadership programming such as LEAD
- Guidance on faculty personnel issues and actions, such as leaves of absence, sabbaticals, appointment to senior faculty ranks, and more
Academic Personnel is responsible for faculty- and librarian-specific benefits programs, such as childcare assistance funds, parental leave, and more.
Academic Personnel provides a number of resources for tenure-track faculty hiring at UMass Amherst, including the Faculty Search Activities Guide, the Partner Employment Program (PEP), and the Pathways Program.
More information on reappointment, promotion, and tenure at UMass Amherst can be found in the Academic Personnel Policy (Red Book) and the Provost’s Annual Memo.
Union contract issues and negotiations for faculty, graduate student employees, and post-doctoral research associates.
Michael J. Eagen
Associate Provost for Academic Personnel
Email Address
Phone Number
(413) 545-6221
Jocelyn J. Tedisky
Assistant Provost for Academic Labor Relations and Personnel Administration
Email Address
Phone Number
(413) 545-2556
Ann Williams
Director of Academic Personnel
Email Address
Phone Number
(413) 545-2813
Jessica Sadowski
Associate Director for Academic Personnel
Email Address
Phone Number
(413) 545-2870
Sophie Stevenson
Labor Relations Coordinator
Email Address
Phone Number
(413) 545-5488
Need Assistance?
For help with any of the above, or to find an answer to another question, please contact the team directly at academic.personnel@umass.edu
For assistance with financial policies, annual budget and planning, and other financial and budgetary processes for academic affairs, please contact Academic Administration and Finance. For other hiring and benefits issues, please contact the university’s Department of Human Resources.
