Staff

Jama Lickteig
Office Supervisor/Budget Officer

Supervises Secretary to the Chair, Graduate Office, Scheduling Officer, Department Receptionist, and Student Office Assistants. Oversees department budget, ordering equipment, bill payment, payroll, grants, GRFs, awards, Endowment accounts, travel, and inventory.

Budget & Accounting

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State Monies

Department Allocation
Wages and Fringe for Faculty, USS, Lecturers, GTAs, GRAs, & Student Hourlies
Supplies and Expense
Phone Allocations
Summer instruction monies
Faculty Start-up Allocations
IT Allocation
Graduate Fees
700 Account (rolls over each fiscal year)
GRF & NF-GRF Allocations
Awards and special allocations from CLAS, inter-department transfers, outside money sources
Purchasing
Ordering
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable

KUCR

Grant Coordinator
Budgets
Purchasing
Ordering
Accounts payable
Wages & Fringe
F & A
Budgets
Purchasing
Ordering
Accounts Payable
Wages & Fringe

Endowment (KUEA)

Development & Research Accounts
Budgets
Purchasing
Ordering
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Wages & Fringe
Scholarship Accounts
Scholarship Manager
Budgets
Award Payments & Tracking

Deposits & Budget Transfers & Close-Outs

State Monies
KUCR
Endowment

Office Management

Staff & Student Hourly Supervision
Faculty Meetings, Staff Meetings, Weekly Staffers
Faculty, Staff, and Student Resource for Psychology
Jayspace Coordinator
Fraser Fire Marshall Contact
Psychology Liaison to the Provost, CLAS, KUCR, & KUEA

Human Resources & Payroll

Professional, USS Staff, and Student Searches
Process payroll forms and enter time and leave for Faculty, Lectures, Affiliates, Professional, USS Staff, & Students
GTA/GRA Contracts
AI Applications
Personal records
Point of contact for address changes, status changes, W4 & K4 Changes, W-2 questions
Special Rates Applications for faculty/faculty spouse & graduate students

Mary Strickell
Assitant Business Offfice Manager and Website Coordinator

Processes travel; orders supplies, equipment, toner; processes billing payments; submits work orders to F&O; sets up offices for new faculty; facilitates moves; produces monthly billing for dept; updates website as needed.

Budgeting Support

Purchasing : State monies, KUCR, and some endowment
Ordering: State monies, KUCR, and some endowment
Accounts Payable: State monies, KUCR, and some endowment
Travel: State monies and KUCR
Faculty & Graduate Students
Departmental Billing
Personal, Inter-departments, and Grant billing
Work orders (FOMS, Phones, and Data lines)
Back up in Jama's absence

Office Management Support

Moving and Disposal of furniture and equipment
Management of IT items
Inventory and Ordering Toner & Ink cartridges
Inventory and Ordering of Office supplies
Back up in Jama's absence

Web Development

Member of the Web IT Development Committee
Contact for Website changes

Cathy O'Keefe
Administrative Specialist/Graduate Officer

Manages and distributes departmental keys, websites, and email accounts. Receives, records, files, and forwards graduate admissions files. Oversees the correspondence for accepted, denied, and alternate applicants as well as all requests for graduate application materials and questions regarding graduate programs in Psychology. Schedules thesis and dissertation defenses, and oversees the completion of Do-All forms for the Graduate School. Schedules 447 Fraser for defenses and other uses. Oversees the thesis and dissertation library for the department, including logging in all the new thesis and dissertations. Maintains graduate student files for the Clinical, Social, Developmental, Cognitive and Quantitative programs.

Graduate Studies

Graduate Students Processes
Change in Plan
Time Limit Extension
Master, Comps and Doctorate Testing
Leave of Absence
Return from Absence

Graduate Studies Support

Dissertation Library
Application Processes
Graduate Faculty Status
Graduate Curricular Changes

Website and e-mail Account

SONA and Research

All Sona Issues

Cindy Sexton
Administrative Specialist/Recruiting Coordinator
Assistant to the Chairperson of Psychology

Administrative Support for Chairperson: Maintains calendar, arranges colloquia and speaker's accommodations, records and distributes faculty meeting minutes, processes Endowment Fund thank you letters, Recruiting Coordinator for faculty and unclassified academic staff positions; prepares recruiting forms, provides guidance to recruitment committee members, coordinates interviews including meetings and accommodations, prepares and assembles all promotion, tenure, and merit materials, third year reviews, and sabbatical leave applications.

Administrative Support for Faculty and Instructors: Prepares and processes materials for course and GTA evaluations each semester, processes change of grades, upkeep of grade sheets, incomplete cards, add and drop cards, and signs enrollment-related paperwork when needed.

Administrative Support for Department: Enrolls students in PSYC 102 on Blackboard. Prepares academic misconduct forms and related materials, prepares exams from draft to finished copy, scanning, prepares office hours each semester, and prepares department phone/office list and department faculty/staff/emerti faculty phone and address list each year.

Promotion and Tenure
Progress Towards Tenure Review (PTTR/3rd year review)
Department Recognition Ceremony
Faculty recruiting
Lecturer hiring
Change of grades
Grade roster maintenance and storage
Academic Misconduct cases (paperwork to hearings if necessary)
Colloquia arrangements
Reception arrangements
Sabbatical Leave applications
Calendaring for Chair
Correspondence for Chair
Meeting scheduling
Appointment scheduling for Chair
Travel arrangements for Chair (as needed)
Faculty Meeting minutes/agenda
Course evaluations
GTA evaluations
Add/drop cards or enrollment paperwork
Exams (as needed)
Office hours
Scanning (back up)
Department phone/office/lab list
Department personal addresses/phone list including staff, faculty, retired faculty
Donation thank you letters
USS Senate
Disciplinary Action Hearing Board

Heidi Waltz
Advising Specialist to the Department

Provides students with information about the major, coordinates assignments of students to the appropriate faculty advisor, manages the undergraduate application process, serves as contact for faculty regarding advising questions, creates and manages advising database to monitor student progress through the department Serves as department liaison to the College Student Academic Services office, the Freshman Sophomore Advising Center, and the University Career Center.

Contact Information

Heidi Waltz, Psychology Advising Specialist
Dept of Psychology, KU
Student Academic Services
211A Fraser
1415 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045
For an appointment with Heidi, please contact 785-864-3500