You can always ask Gene Carbonell, the ROMS Academic Administrator, by email at genecarbonell@brandeis.edu, in person by visiting his office in Shiffman 106, or by phone at 781-736-3200. But first check the FAQs below in case one of them answers your question.
You can access the academic calendar as a list on the Registrar's website or in Google calendar. (Brandeis login required).
Even better, you can subscribe to the academic calendar and see it superimposed on your own calendar by following these instructions.
You may subscribe to the ROMS calendar via Google Calendar or you can access our calendar from a web browser. (You must be signed into your Brandeis Gmail account.)
The Hiatt Career Center has provided tools, resources and partners to help advise students about their career pathways.
Faculty Liaison Program
Each member of the Hiatt Career Center staff serves as a liaison to academic departments and programs to share mutually beneficial information, referrals, programming and services. Please email hiattcenter@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-3618 to contact the liaison for Romance Studies.
Please contact SASExams@brandeis.edu. The graduate assistant in SAS will reserve the computer lab (holds up to eight students; open until 5 p.m.) for you if it is free.
You (as the professor) will need to be available by text, phone or email so questions can be relayed to you if necessary while the exam is taking place.
Please contact the office two to three days in advance for a proctor.
Please contact SASExams@brandeis.edu to ask for a graduate student who could proctor your exam.
You (as the professor) will need to be available by text, phone or email so questions can be relayed to you if necessary while the exam is taking place.
Please contact the office two to three days in advance for a proctor.
SAS will prioritize support for classes that do not have TAs and those with challenging accommodations.
SAS is able to offer remote quiz/exam proctoring to students in COVID isolation or quarantine when faculty are unable to arrange this. Contact access@brandeis.edu with questions about setting up remote proctoring. Please note that Student Accessibility Support has limited staffing available for proctoring and will do their best to support as many exams as they can.
If you have more questions, please email access@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-3470.
Contact Facilities at 781-736-4385.
Call Media Services at 781-736-4632 or send an email to Tim O'Neil.
Markers, chalk, pens, letterhead, envelopes, etc., are located in Shiffman 106. If you notice that supplies are running low, please let someone in the office know.
If you need to reserve a classroom, please email Katie Dickinson with your request. Please make sure you plan meeting or event times according to the block system and specify in your email exactly why you need the room reservation and approximately how many people will attend.
It is important that a faculty member be present for film showings. Serious security issues may arise when students are left alone in Shiffman at night or even during the day.
Brandeis UNET Account tools will allow you to establish a U-Net account (which is also your email address) as well as change your password, access your email, register your computer on the Brandeis network, etc.
Go to the Changing your Brandeis Password page to change your email password.
We recommend using Gmail on the web in a browser like Firefox or Chrome, but if you would prefer to use a standalone IMAP mail client, follow the instructions on the Gmail in Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or Outlook page.
Please see the instructions for your phone including voicemail setup.
If you're off-campus:
New faculty should contact ITS to set up their office telephone and voicemail.
Check all connections. Take them out. Re-insert them. If that doesn't work, submit a Help Desk Request.
Extra paper is under the table to the right of the copier. If the copier is jammed, try to unjam it by following the steps on the screen. If that doesn't work, ask Katie or student workers in Shiffman 107/108; or if all else fails, call 781-736-4500 (Procurement) and report the problem. You will need our Shiffman 121 Konica Copier ID: CB096.
You may contact the ITS help desk at 781-736-4357 (781-736-HELP). But, you should also help by performing simple, regular maintenance on your computer.
Read the Romance Studies printing basics document (PDF). Or, read more generalized instructions on the ITS site.
Make sure the printer is on and has paper. If it displays an error message, follow the prompts on the screen. Or, try this:
First, clear the print queue.
On Windows:
On Mac:
Then, restart the printer and the computer.
When you upload your syllabi to Moodle, make sure that the syllabus is set to public, not private.
The technical support team will help them — it is not your responsibility to be the technician! Direct them to submit a Help Desk ticket or have them call the Help Desk at 781-736-4357.