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Markeda Newell, Ph.D.

Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs and Interim Dean, School of Education

Markeda Newell serves as the lead administrator on faculty matters including creating new policies and procedures to support faculty, with an eye towards equity, inclusion and access; overseeing promotion, tenure and review processes; new faculty orientation, mentoring, and faculty development programs; initiatives to recruit and retain underrepresented faculty; and sabbaticals and faculty awards. The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs works with academic leaders across campus under the One Loyola model to enhance LUC’s efforts to support faculty from recruitment to retirement.

Center for Faculty Excellence

Lavar Pope, PhD
Clinical Professor, Political Science; Acting Director for Loyola’s Center for Faculty Excellence

 

Lakeside Faculty Administration Personnel

Shonda Smith, Director of Business Operations

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Full-Time Faculty Salary and Payroll Processing
  • Faculty Merit, Salary Planning, and Salary Changes 
  • Position Changes  (e.g., part-time to full-time)
  • Full-Time Faculty Contract Renewals
  • Faculty Salary Accounts, Permissions/Approvals
  • Faculty Information System Access 
  • Liaison to Finance

Contact Information:

Shaz Campbell, Faculty Administration Coordinator

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Part-Time Faculty Stipends and Payroll Processing
  • Part-Time Faculty LID Requests (New and Returning Hires)
  • Locus Instructor Table Updates/Changes (Full-Time and Part-Time)
  • Non-Affiliated Persons (NAP) Request
  • Visiting Scholars
  • Supplemental Salary Requests (Full-Time and Part-Time)
  • Moving Expense Reimbursement (Full-Time Faculty)
  • Part-Time Faculty Module Support 
  • Fac-Posts

Contact Information:

Magdalena Cabral, Faculty Administration Specialist

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Full-Time Initial Faculty Contracts and Administrative Appointments
  • Full-Time Faculty Onboarding (includes UVID, credentials, background checks)
  • Full-Time Faculty Job Postings/Announcements
  • Resignations and Retirement 
  • Unpaid Leaves, Maternity/Parental Leaves, Medical Leaves
  • Full-Time I9 Verifications and Re-verifications
  • Dual Credit
  • Faculty Record Management

Contact Information:

Julia Elsky, Associate Director of Faculty Affairs

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion & Tenure
  • Interfolio Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT)
  • Liaison to University Rank & Tenure Committee (URTC)
  • Non-Tenure Track Faculty Promotion
  • Revision of Promotion & Tenure Guidelines
  • Full-Time Faculty Research Leaves, Summer Stipends, and Awards/Fellowships
  • Liaison to Faculty Development Review Committee (FDRC)
  • URTC and FDRC Elections
  • Endowed Chairs/Professor Appointment and Renewal Process
  • Full-Time Faculty Search Committee Hiring Protocol Training/Support
  • READI Coaches Liaison

Contact Information:

 

Sam Bernstein, Faculty Information Systems Manager

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Interfolio F180 (Annual Performance Review)
  • Faculty Data Maintenance, Integrity and Management 
  • Faculty Information Systems Coordination and Maintenance
  • Faculty Administration Liaison for Information Technology Services and Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Contact Information:

  

Health Sciences Faculty Administration Personnel

 

Michelle Pencyla, Assistant Provost for Faculty Administration 

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Full-Time and Part-Time Offer Letters 
  • Faculty Merit, Salary Planning, and Salary Changes  
  • Full-Time Faculty Contract Renewals
  • HSC New Faculty Hiring Plan 
  • HSC point of contact for faculty HR issues 
  • HSC immigration point of contact  
  • SSOM and LUMC CART Monthly Appointments 
  • Position Changes/Status Change:  
    • Part-Time to Full-Time 
    • Resignation 
    • Retirement 
    • Emeritus 
    • Affiliate Faculty 

Contact Information:

  • Email: mpencyla@luc.edu 
  • Phone: 464-220-9151
  • Office: SSOM/Cuneo Center, Room 415

Lurdes Llapa, Faculty Administration Coordinator

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Faculty Contract Administration:
    • New faculty onboarding
    • Contract renewals
    • Part-time faculty contracts
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date salary data in Fiscal Affairs
  • Faculty Record Management
  • Locus Instructor Table Updates/Changes (Full-Time and Part-Time)
  • Administer the Faculty Affairs website
  • Manage requests HSC Affiliate requests for non-affiliated persons (NAP)
  • Coordinate Workday number requests

Contact Information:

  • Email: lllapa@luc.edu 
  • Phone: 464-220-9153
  • Office: Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM), Cuneo Center, Room 410

Nataly Quito, Faculty Data Coordinator

Primary Responsibilities

  • Assists with onboarding of FT/PT faculty
  • I-9 Re-verifications
  • Maintaining faculty files and appointment information up-to-date within faculty database systems
  • Processing requests for faculty information and data
  • Non-Affiliated Persons (NAP) Request
  • SSOM FIS annual evaluations
  • Maintain and Track the SSOM and LUMC CART Monthly Appointments

Contact Information:

  • Email: nquito@luc.edu 
  • Phone: 464-220-9152
  • Office: SSOM, Cuneo Center, Room 410

Julia Elsky, Associate Director of Faculty Affairs

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Full-Time Faculty Search and Hiring Protocols
  • Full-Time Faculty Search Committee Training/Support
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Liaisons, Coordinator
  • Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion & Tenure
  • Interfolio Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT)
  • Liaison to University Rank & Tenure Committee
  • Non Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion
  • Full-Time Faculty Research Leaves, Summer Stipends, and Awards/Fellowships
  • Liaison to Faculty Development Review Committee
  • Endowed Chairs Appointment and Renewal Process

Contact Information:

Samuel Bernstein, Faculty Information Systems Manager

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Faculty Data Maintenance, Integrity and Management 
  • Faculty Information Systems Coordination and Maintenance
  • Faculty Administration Liaison for Information Technology Services and Office of Institutional Effectiveness
  • Interfolio F180 (Annual Performance Review) 

Contact Information:

  

Markeda Newell, Ph.D.

Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs and Interim Dean, School of Education

Markeda Newell serves as the lead administrator on faculty matters including creating new policies and procedures to support faculty, with an eye towards equity, inclusion and access; overseeing promotion, tenure and review processes; new faculty orientation, mentoring, and faculty development programs; initiatives to recruit and retain underrepresented faculty; and sabbaticals and faculty awards. The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs works with academic leaders across campus under the One Loyola model to enhance LUC’s efforts to support faculty from recruitment to retirement.