Overview of Essential Forms for Chairs

Be aware that there are continually personnel changes in all of these offices: your best bet is to check the online Directory, and call the administrative assistant for the office or department to check who you should email things to.

List of forms, organized according to where they get sent after the chair signs:

  • Students / chairs must email from their oneonta.edu email accounts, attaching the new fillable or downloadable pdfs on the Online Forms tab of the Academic Advisement webpage. All such forms should be sent to advisement@oneonta.edu.
  • Change of Major Form, also used for changing advisors or declaring a minor (Pay attention to whether it's a single or dual major change. The student can drop one major and add another on the same form, just be sure the other department chair gets included on the email chain.).
  • Course Repeat Appeal Form (Pay attention to whether the student *really* needs to repeat the course a third time or whether a course substitution or waiver would be better-- e.g. if the requested course is a prerequisite but you've already overridden the prerequisite for the student to take the next course, then it may not be necessary for them to repeat the course. Give reasons as to why you think the student will do better in the course this time. And don't let the student submit form without signatures.).
  • Transfer Credit Re-Evaluation Form (Consider whether the course equivalency is a special case or something that should hold for all students who took the same course at that institution.).
  • Concern for Student Form (Chairs don't need to sign these but faculty should cc chairs or send the chair a heads-up email when the situation is troubling. This form is on the "Behavioral Concern" link in the Forms column of the Office of Community Standards webpage.) This is also the form that faculty use for students who stop attending class and don't respond to contact attempts. Log in to MyOneonta and look for the link on the list of Faculty/Staff Links.
  • Instructor Report of Academic Dishonesty Instructor Report of Academic Dishonesty (Chairs don't need to sign these but faculty should cc chairs on these so the chair knows to expect the almost inevitable complaints. The reporting form is on the "Academic Dishonesty (Faculty Resource)" link in the Forms column on the Office of Community Standards webpage.).
  • Course Changes and New Course proposals (Faculty and/or Dept chairs initiate these in Curriculog, which can be found in the left-hand menu of your MyOneonta home page. Each different thing you can do on Curriculog has the signature workflow built in. No more paper forms or lost emails for this! But early drafts of proposals should be emailed between faculty and chair before submission on Curriculog.)
  • Individual Course Enrollment Form Individual Course Enrollments (This is now a digital workflow built into the ONE Stop platform; student initiates the request and instructor and chair get email prompts to log in and approve (or not). Be sure to explain clearly why the student cannot take a course in the regular schedule; could a course substitution be a solution that preserves the student's path to graduation as well as enrollment in scheduled classes, not to mention faculty time? Why this requires the Dean's signature but an Independent Study does not, is a mystery to us all.) Log in to MyOneonta; the link to ONE Stop Forms is in the list on the left side.
  • Internship Application Internship Application (This is now done through the Handshake platform in the Career Development Office. Make sure you specify who the coordinator / supervisor is and spell out the details of what the intern will be doing to earn their credits. Make sure the student meets all of the criteria and restrictions before approving as chair.)
  • Teaching Assistantship Application Teaching Assistantship Application (This is a fillable pdf in the Online Forms section of the Registrar's website. Student and Instructor sign first *make sure instructor's name is printed too*, then the chair and then it goes to the Dean. Make sure there is a syllabus attached with details of what the TA will be doing to earn their credits. Make sure the student meets all of the criteria and restrictions before sending the form up to the Dean.)
  • Sabbatical or Other Leave Request ​​​​​​Sabbatical or Other Leave Request (This is a fillable pdf linked from the Faculty Information Guide on the Provost's website. Scroll down to the section on Personnel Policies and then click the drop-down for Sabbatical and Other Leaves)
  • Staffing & Compensation Request FormStaffing & Compensation Request Form *Must be submitted with the APP form* (This is how you start the process to search for a new faculty member or get extra service pay for a faculty member. There is a link to these forms and more information on the landing page of the Human Resources webpage.)
  • Student Employment Appointment Form Student Employment Appointment Form (This is a fillable pdf on the Forms section of the Human Resources / Employee Services webpage. Student employment opportunities are advertised on the Handshake platform.)
  • Travel Request Application TRA form Travel Request Application TRA form (Make sure to fill this out *at least 2 weeks before the travel*. Must specify how classes will be covered or why that won't be necessary. This is a fillable pdf on the Travel Manual tab of the Procurement & Travel website; the other forms and policies and instructions are there too.)
  • Requisition for Mailroom, Mail Services, Central Receiving and Campus Supply Rooms - commonly ordered office supplies like printer paper, chalk, pens etc. (There is a pdf order form from the campus supply room on the Mail, Receiving and Supply tab of the Division of Finance & Administration webpage; there is also a link for online ordering.)The website has tabs with info for the Mailroom, Mail Services and Central Receiving, and also for the Campus Supply Room. For supplies Requisition for Supplies - commonly ordered office supplies like printer paper, chalk, pens etc. (There is a pdf order form from the campus supply room on the Mail, Receiving and Supply tab of the Division of Finance & Administration webpage; there is also a link for online ordering.)
  • Certificate of Records Destruction Certificate of Records Destruction (Form can be found in the Records Retention page on the Internal Control Program tab in the Finance & Administration web page. It's important not to let old records and documents pile up in the office, but shredding of them needs to be in accordance with the Records Retention policy.)

Contact the SUNY Oneonta Foundation office directly if you are working with them to fund any of your department activities, they will provide the forms you need to request checks, etc.

  • Voluntary Reduction in Work Schedule application (for CSEA etc staff)
  • Online forms for Change of Personal Information, Leave Donation, etc.
  • Adjunct Promotion program has its own website; evaluation and promotion materials for adjuncts have been getting uploaded to Sharepoint folders that the Deans' secretaries set up, but the MOU is being reviewed this year so there may be operational changes coming in the near future.
  • Online forms for Change of Personal Information, Leave Donation, etc.

Print Shop Orders (Chair doesn't need to sign these, but should make faculty ask first before they order expensive things like posters or color copies. Departments should have a budget for this and Deans don't have to sign off on every copy request, but chairs should keep close tabs on expenses and rein in faculty who do too much. The Print Shop Storefront link is under the Faculty/Staff tab in the Campus Resources section of MyOneonta.)

  • Standard Voucher -Standard Voucher - this is how guest speakers, faculty who paid for educational materials, etc. get reimbursed for their *prior approved* expenses (This is a fillable pdf on the Forms and Other Resources tab of the Procurement & Travel website)
  • Purchase Requisition with Justification (This is a fillable pdf on the Procurement & Travel website's landing page.)
  • Travel Voucher (This is the form that you submit after the trip to get reimbursed. Must have original receipts attached. This is a fillable pdf on the Travel Manual tab of the Procurement & Travel website; the other forms and policies and instructions for travel are there too.)
  • Petitions on DegreeWorks - formerly the Substitution/Waiver Form (Use this to make courses "slot" in different places on the student's DegreeWorks, or to waive major requirements altogether. The faculty advisor or student initiates the request using the Petitions tab on the student's DegreeWorks worksheet-- description of the petition MUST begin with the abbreviation of the student's major, so the relevant dept chair can see which petitions to look at in detail. If you as dept chair initiate the petition for one of your majors, you have to ALSO go back in and approve it.) Log in to MyOneonta and find the link to DegreeWorks on the left; then click on Exception Management under the Admin menu at the top of the page.
  • Course Challenge Record (technically chairs don't have to sign these, but Chairs are supposed to be the ones who approve whether students can challenge a course. These forms are not digitized yet; the process for now is to scan the paper form and attach to an email to registrar@oneonta.edu .)
  • Grade Change Form - does not need chair's approval if it was an Incomplete or Pending grade; all other change requests need a justification and the chair gets prompted to go in and approve/deny (this is now an online process done through Web Services; if for some reason the instructor cannot initiate this process the chair can email the relevant information to the Registrar's office.)
  • Honors Certificates (These are sent to department chairs to sign after each semester.)
  • Independent Study Form (These are now part of the ONE Stop Forms digital workflow. Student initiates; faculty and chair are prompted to add their two cents. Be sure to look over the syllabus that the faculty member must attach; also explain clearly why the student can't take a regularly-scheduled course) Find the ONE Stop Forms link on MyOneonta.
  • Minor Completion Form (These are pdfs that the Registrar sends at the end of the semester, one for each graduating student who has declared completion of the minor; consult with Academic Advisement or an experienced chair on how to complete these forms, they're a little complicated. But they'll be going away once minors are fully on DegreeWorks!)

Useful Links:

  • Tutorial Videos on the left-hand menu of the Registrar's site, with how-to videos for Grade Changes, Renumbering, Petitions, etc:
  • Directory Search is available on the Faculty & Staff tab of the Campus Resources section of MyOneonta.
  • SUNY Employee Portal (link located in the menu along the left-hand side of your MyOneonta home page)
    • To approve Administrative Assistant biweekly timesheets and faculty monthly attendance forms: once you're in the Portal, click on the Human Resource Systems link in the top left corner, then the Time & Attendance link/icon, then the button for Time & Attendance under your role at SUNY Oneonta, then click on the Work Roster link up towards the top of the screen a bit to the right of center.
    • You should get an email from the Time & Attendance system whenever there's something that you need to attend to; make sure you train your email account to not send those reminders to your spam folder.
    • To manage your department budget and other accounts: once you're in the Portal, click on the Reports icon in the blue field at the top right corner, then the Dashboards button for SUNY Business Intelligence Initiative, then click on the Account Summary link and find your department account number in the menus.
  • Curriculog (link located in the menu along the left-hand side of your MyOneonta home page): you need to click the Login link in the top right-hand corner in order to get access to the processes for creating proposals; this is the platform you'll use for changing existing courses, proposing new courses *including new iterations of your Special Topics courses*, and revising or discontinuing major or minor programs.
  • Taskstream (link located in the menu along the left-hand side of your MyOneonta home page): this is the platform now used for departmental annual reports, yearly Continual Improvement (program assessment) reports, and 7-year Program Reviews. Contact Joshua Nelson, Assessment Specialist, for more information.
  • Workflow (link will be in provided when going through the Renewal, Tenure and/or Promotion process): used for uploading and reviewing Renewal, Tenure and Promotion materials
  • Annual Activity Reporting / Faculty Success (formerly Digital Measures, link in MyOneonta): used for FARs and also for RTP process (candidates for RTP get upload links once they have informed their Dean that they are applying).
  • Policies and guidelines for RTP are in the "Promotion, Continuation and Tenure" link in the Professional Life section of the Faculty/Staff tab under Campus Resources on MyOneonta. The Provost's Administrative Assistant circulates an Administrative Calendar each year with the deadlines for scheduling, RTP reviews, sabbatical requests, etc.
  • The Provost's Administrative Assistant circulates an Administrative Calendar each year with the deadlines for scheduling, RTP reviews, sabbatical requests, etc.
  • Open/Closed Courses (link located in Quick Links menu of the Faculty/Staff tab of the Campus Resources section of MyOneonta): you can look up schedules and enrollments for previous years in here, without the hassle of prying the information out of Argos.
  • Bias Acts Response Team: the link to their page is on the left-hand menu of the Office of Equity and Inclusion webpage, and the Response Team has a reporting form on their page.
  • Violence Response Site: For confidentially reporting and referral to resources regarding sexual assault.
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