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CHAPTER V: ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL POLICIES AND
SERVICES
V.A. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ASSISTANTS
Administrative assistance is provided for the faculty members of each department through
academic programs assistants located as conveniently as possible to those faculty members to
whom they are assigned. Faculty members may make requests to the programs assistants by
telephone or e-mail or by sending their work directly to the office which serves their department.
Academic Programs Assistants may be asked to perform any secretarial service that pertains to
an individual's responsibilities as a faculty member at Birmingham-Southern College.
V.B. TELEPHONES
All telephones on the campus are maintained by the Information Technology Office. Because of
the speed and ease of long-distance dialing, everyone
is cautioned to make certain that only
authorized personnel use office telephones.
V.C. SMOKING ON CAMPUS
Smoking is prohibited in all buildings.
V.D. TEXTBOOKS AND CLASS SUPPLIES
Near the end of each term, the manager of the College Bookstore requests faculty members to
order textbooks and other course materials for the following term. Instructors should place their
orders as soon as possible, either in hard copy or through an online form, so that the texts and
other supplies will be available to the students at the beginning of the new term. Since
publishers allow bookstores little margin for error, faculty members are asked to exercise the
greatest care in estimating the number of books needed and in keeping the manager of the
Bookstore informed of plans for continuing or discontinuing texts. Each instructor is responsible
for obtaining desk copies of texts directly from the publishers. Class roll books are also available
in the Bookstore.
V.E. COMPUTERS FOR FACULTY
The College provides every faculty member with a personal computer. Allocations of faculty
computers are determined by the Provost of the College, with the assistance of the Information
Technology Department. Facilities for the creation of multimedia course materials are available
in the Library Media Lab adjacent to the electronic classroom. All courses are provided with an
online course site through the Moodle open source web application.