Associate/Assistant Deans
Allan Burns
Associate
Dean for Faculty Affairs
2014 Turlington Hall
Phone: (352) 392-2230
FAX: (352) 392-3584
email: afburns@anthro.ufl.edu
Executive Secretary:
Arlene Williams (email: arlene@clas.ufl.edu)
Areas of Responsibility:
- Tenure & Promotion; Faculty Salaries/Raises
- Grinter Supplement; CLAS Fellowships/Dissertations
- Sabbaticals; New Faculty/Chair Orientations
- Sexual Harassment; Faculty Grievances
- Drop/Add (Course Enrollments)
- Faculty and Graduate Student Travel
- Teaching and Advising Awards
- Chair's/Graduate Coordinator's Retreats
- Annual Activities Reports
- Student Complaints
Margaret Fields
Assistant Dean for Research and Development2014 Turlington Hall
Phone : (352) 392-2230
Fax: (352) 392-3584
email: mfields@clas.ufl.edu
Areas of Responsibility:
- Serves as CLAS liaison with the Division of Sponsored Research and Contracts and Grants office
- Tracks all grants for the college and handles approval process
- Maintains the college’s UF Foundation accounts, including dissertation fellowships and scholarships
- Tracks all new faculty authorizations and hires
Assistant Dean and Interim Director of the Biological Sciences
210
Carr
Phone: (352) 392-1565
FAX: (352) 392-3704
Email: mfields@clas.ufl.edu
Executive Secretary:
Arlene Williams (email: arlene@clas.ufl.edu)
Secretary for BSC:
Tangelyn Mitchell (email: tan@zoo.ufl.edu)
Areas of responsibility:
- Biological Sciences Program
- Biology Major
- Serves as liaison to CALS for the biology major
Sheila Dickison

Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs
2014 Turlington Hall
Phone: (352) 392-6800
FAX: (352) 392-3584
email: doctord@ufl.edu
Executive Secretary:
Cindy Carrion (email: carrion@clas.ufl.edu)
Areas of Responsibility:
- Curriculum (College and University Committees)
- Academic Programs (including Academic Learning Compacts)
- Interdisciplinary Studies Major
- O. Ruth McQuown Scholarships
- SACS Reviews
- Undergraduate Catalogue
- Undergraduate Brochure for College
- General Education Council
- Undergraduate Advising Council
- University Council of Teacher Education (UCOTE)
- Center and institute applications
- Department/Center relations
- Liaison with UF International Center and other colleges
- CLAS International Committee
- SACS recommendation implementation
- Cooperative and reciprocal agreements, and international events and programming
- Study Abroad programs
Current UF international students with questions about registration and enrollment should contact advisor@advising.ufl.edu.
Potential international students with questions about admission should contact international@ufl.edu.
Bernard Mair

Associate Dean of Information
Resources & Technological Programs
2014 Turlington Hall
Phone: (352) 392-2230
email: bam@clas.ufl.edu
Executive Secretary:
Arlene Williams (email: arlene@clas.ufl.edu)
Areas of Responsibility:
- Physical Networking in College Buildings
- IRM Reporting and Strategic Planning
- Coordinate Departmental Networking Activities
- Writing Project Support; Language Learning Center Support
- Network Service Delivery: email, Web, DNS
- Advise Departments on IR Purchasing and Planning
- Advise Faculty and Staff on IR Opportunities
- Distance Learning Initiatives
Albert Matheny
Associate
Dean for Student Affairs
(Academic
Advising )
250 Academic Advising Center
Phone: (352) 392-1521
email: matheny@polisci.ufl.edu
Senior Secretary:
Kimberly Faison (kfaison@ufl.edu)
Areas of Responsibility (College):
- Academic Advising
- Advising Newsletter
- Non-Degree Registrations
- Student Records/SASS
- Graduate Requirements/Certifications
- Undergraduate Coordinators Committee
- Catalog
- Advisor Training
- Pre-Med/Pre-Law Advising
- Enrollment Management
- Admissions
- Scheduling/Offerings
- Student Government
Areas of Responsibility (University):
- Director of Advising
- Orientation (PREVIEW)
- Council for Undergraduate Student Academic Support Services
- University Curriculum Committee
- UAA Oversight
- Enrollment Management
- Undergraduate Advising Council
- Student Admissions Committees
- Family Advising Council
Jim Mueller
Associate
Dean for Administrative Affairs
2014 Turlington Hall
Phone: (352) 392-2264
FAX: (352) 392-3584
email: jmueller@religion.ufl.edu
Executive Secretary:
Cindy Carrion (email: carrion@clas.ufl.edu)
Areas of Responsibility:
- Space and Facilities
- Salary Equity, Affirmative Action/EEO/EAP
- TEAM (non-faculty) Grievances, Sexual Harassment
- Support for Classrooms
- Enrollment Management
- Student/Teacher Evaluation Administration
- UF@SFCC
- ADA
- Outside Activities (COI/COC)
- Scheduling
- CLAS Representative to Historic Preservation Committee
David E. Richardson
Interim
Associate Dean for Research
2014E Turlington Hall
Phone: (352) 392-2230
email: der@clas.ufl.edu
Executive Secretary:
Arlene Williams (email: arlene@clas.ufl.edu)
Areas of Responsibility:
- Chairs internal proposal review committees
- Coordinating initiatives such as legislative budget requests (LBR’s) and other special funding opportunities
- Reviews matching requests
- Reviews new faculty startup funding requests from chairs and directors
- Coordinates training of new faculty in proposal preparation
- Reviews animal care issues
- Serves as liaison to other college research offices and RGP to promote interdisciplinary cooperation.
To Be Determined
Associate Dean for Minority Affairs and Special Programs (OASIS)
Executive Secretary:
Carolyn James (email: cjames@oasis.ufl.edu)
Areas of Responsibility:
- Special Programs
- Recruiting and Retention
- Minority College Change
- Minority Mentoring
- Minority Faculty and Staff
- Special Admissions
- Minority Transfer
- Orientation/Preview




