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Gary Chow

Acting Manager   

T: 778-782-6508
E: cmnsmgr@sfu.ca
Room: K9673

Gary can help with:

• All financial, budget and expense approvals and matters
• Sessional instructors, Term lecturers & Teaching Assistants
• ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Academic and Administrative policies and procedures
• Course scheduling and space assignment
  
• Hiring staff

Emy Meiliana

Acting Administrative Coordinator

T: 778-782-7687
E: cmnscord@sfu.ca
Room: K9683

Emy can help with:

• Research grants administration
• Tri-Council funding use guidelines
• Grant funding and Research contracts funding use guidelines
• Hiring Research funded Personnel(RA's and Post Docs)
• Purchasing requisitions
  
• Online business and travel expense claims
• C-card reconciliation
• Timekeeping for CMNS staff, RAs, Post Docs, and Co-op Students
  

Brenda Baldwin

Director's Assistant

T: 778-782-3470
E: cmnsdsec@sfu.ca
Room: K9681

Brenda can help with:

• Arranging meetings with the Director
• Signature requests for the Director
• Tenure-track faculty appointments
• Contract renewal, tenure, and promotion
• Salary review
• Annual Report of Outside Activities
• Study leaves and other leaves
• External reviews
• School undergraduate scholarships and awards
  

Julia Reis

School Administrative Assistant

T: 778-782-3687
E: cmnsasst@sfu.ca
Room: K9671

Julia can help with:

• General administrative support
• Questions relating to University Administrative policies and procedures
• Online travel and business expense claim preparation and support
• Semesterly book orders, access to instructor copies
• Renewal of sponsored computing IDs
• Supplies management
• Key requisitions    
• General enquiries

Joseph Tilley

Undergraduate Program Assistant

T: 778-782-3117
E: cmnsgen@sfu.ca
Room: K9671

Joseph can help with:

• School controlled room bookings and access
  
• Preparation of TUG (Time and Use Guideline) forms in compliance with the TSSU Collective Agreement
• Sessional instructor handbook distribution
• Undergraduate timetables and exam schedules
• CMNS course outlines and maillists
• Privacy policy and confidential shredding
  
• Facilities requisitions
• General enquiries

Jason Congdon

Graduate Programs Coordinator 
(MA and PhD)

E: gradcmns@sfu.ca
Room: K9669

Jason can help with:

• Primary resource for the CMNS Graduate Programs
  
• Graduate student record, registration policy, leave terms, procedures and fees
  
• Graduate scholarship and fellowship application process
• Graduate programs and thesis defence requirements and process
• The semi-annual graduate student review process
• Graduate student orientation sessions
  

Sheena Clarkson

Undergraduate Advisor & Recruiter

T: 778-782-2098
E: cmns1@sfu.ca
Room: K9650

Can help with:

• Undergraduate academic advising
• First-year and new student recruitment initiatives
• Registration, course add/drops, degree requirement checklists, letter of permission
• Internal transfers to CMNS
• New student transfers from university/college into CMNS
• Undergraduate recruitment strategies and analytics
• Undergraduate recruitment event coordination
• Degree planning
• Important ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV academic deadlines and dates
• Referrals to other support services at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Alicia Akenhead

Undergraduate Advisor

E: cmns2@sfu.ca
Room: K9651

Alicia can help with:

• Undergraduate academic advising
• Registration, course add/drops, degree requirement checklists, letter of permission
• Internal transfers to CMNS
• Degree planning
• Important ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV academic deadlines and dates
• Referrals to other support services at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Sami Lee

Undergraduate Advisor

E: cmns3@sfu.ca
Room: K9653

Sami can help with:

• Undergraduate academic advising
• Degree planning
  
• Important ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV academic deadlines and dates
• Referrals to other support services at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  

Andrew Ringer

Digital Content Manager

cmnscomm@sfu.ca
Room: K9677

Andrew can help with:

• News stories (student, alum, faculty)
  
• Social media requests
• Internal faculty and staff communication requests
  
• Communication project support
  
• Website requests
• Course promotion
• Newsletter creation

Brian Langdeau

Technical Manager

Technical Request: cmnstech@sfu.ca
E: langdeau@sfu.ca
Room: K8651

Brian can help with:

• General technical support and hardware and software recommendations
  
• Technical equipment sourcing and purchasing
• Computing and specialized course-specific equipment inventory maintenance
  
• Video conferencing needs assessment/recommendations
  

Alexandre Klinke

Production Technologist

Technical Request: cmnstech@sfu.ca
E: aklinke@sfu.ca
Room: K8651

Alex can help with:

• General desktop support and troubleshooting
• Lab and classroom technical support
• Audio-visual equipment requests
• Provisioning of software and hardware
• Guidance and technical support for Production courses
  

Liesl Jurock

Co-op Coordinator

T: 778-782-5542
E: lrjurock@sfu.ca
Room: K9655

Liesl can help with:

• Advising and coaching Communication Co-op students on career and job search
• Liaising with employers seeking to post Co-op job opportunities
• Supporting current Communication Co-op students and employers during Co-op work terms
  

Sara Sethna (On Leave)

Co-op Coordinator

Sara can help with:

• Advising and coaching Communication Co-op students on career and job search
• Liaising with employers seeking to post Co-op job opportunities
• Supporting current Communication Co-op students and employers during Co-op work terms
  

Sangita Mudaliar

Program Assistant

T: 778-782-5367
E: accoop@sfu.ca
Room: K9657

Sangita can help with:

• Responding to inquiries from Communication students interested in joining the Co-op program
• Processing new applications to Co-op and Co-op work permit letters
• Administering Co-op processes for students and employers