Academic Coordinators Council

An Academic Coordinators Council has been created to provide support to academics in a variety of ways. The purpose of the Council is to respond to needs while assessing how the work is done.  This article explains whom to contact for help in different situations.

Council Members

The Academic Coordinators Council consists of four academic coordinators, one assigned to each academic area:

• Mary Powell for Liberal Arts and Business
• Venise Murphy for Education
• Jen Pappas for Mental Health & Well-Being
• Atoosa Malekani for the College of Art & Design

The Council is under the purview of the Office of the Provost and will be led by Lisa O’Neill, Special Assistant to the Provost. The academic coordinators will support the general administrative needs of their own academic area and will be cross-trained to be able to support other academic areas as needed.  As a team, the Council will work toward creating efficient and standardized processes where possible across academic areas. Team members will cover for one another when differing workloads demand. 

The Academic Affairs Budget Coordinator, Shannon Deiana, will support all of Academic Affairs by overseeing the budgets, processing expense payments, reimbursements, and other expenditures. 

How to get help

1. All areas should send requests for the academic coordinators directly via email. 

2. Address questions related to course scheduling, classroom change requests and adjunct faculty contracts to the Registrar’s Office or help@lesley.edu.

3. Send questions related to the following financial needs to budget coodinator Shannon Deiana at shannon.deiana@lesley.edu.  

• Individual core faculty professional development funds (except LA+D – send those to Atoosa)
• Adjunct Faculty professional development fund applications
• Internal faculty grants (faculty development grants, etc.)
• All Accounts Payable needs
• Budget matters  
• Academic-related employee and non-employee Stipend Payments 
  • Ex. Jury Stipends, Guest Speaker Payments, Honorarium payments, Student TA payments etc.
• Travel and Expense Vouchers, Mileage Reimbursement

4. For external grant-related questions, contact Maureen Creegan-Quinquis at mcreegan@lesley.edu.

5. To order supplies:

• All except LA+D: Send requests to your designated area academic coordinator. They will work with Shannon Deiana to place the order. (Lab supplies should continue to be ordered as done in the past.)
• LA+D: Send requests to Brian Unwin as per past practice.

6. If you aren't sure who to contact, send an email to help@lesley.edu and your request will be routed to the correct contact.

7. To offer suggestions or provide feedback to the University regarding policies, processes and opinions, please email feedback@lesley.edu.