Financial tracking, analysis, reconciliation, and reporting. Business meeting, entertainment, travel, and miscellaneous reimbursements. Lodging and airfare reservation. Academic organization membership and honoraria. Gift administration, accounts payable, and purchasing. Student Assistant and Hourly employees hiring.Time sheets and payroll for hourly employees.
Personnel policy and procedures. Academic recruitment and appointments. Ladder faculty merits, promotions, career steps, retentions, appraisals. Non-Senate faculty appointments, excellence reviews, merits. Payroll and additional compensation. Visas and Research Scholars. Leave, FMLA, and Sabbatical. New faculty email, UCSBNetID, orientation.
The Student Services Manager is responsible for the overall management of the Student Services Unit. They are responsible for the development and implementation of student services policies and procedures. Additionally, they are responsible for curriculum planning and course scheduling, master course approval, and submission of GE proposals. They also oversee faculty workload reporting, graduate admissions, and funding. They handle academic student employee appointments and payroll, program and enrollment data reporting and they are also the supervisor of Student Services staff.
Dr. Tuc Chau earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies from the University of South Florida in 2023. He has taught a wide range of ESL and Linguistics courses, working with both domestic and international students. His research focuses on second language (L2) writing, with additional interests in L2 pronunciation and computer-assisted language learning.
Anna Krokhmal holds a Master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she has taught ESL composition courses and served as a mentor for new faculty. With a BA in Translation from Ukraine, Anna is fluent in three languages. Additionally, she has been learning Mandarin and has traveled to northeast China. Her areas of interest include second language reading and writing, language testing, and classroom technology.
Briana Westmacott is a Continuing Lecturer in the English for Multilingual Students program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, her alma mater. She completed her graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and has been teaching for over twenty-three years. She develops and instructs undergraduate and graduate level courses designed to support multilingual students’ academic reading, writing, and speaking strategies. In addition, she has been a columnist for over ten years and has published her work in a variety of magazines and newspapers.
Dr. Marie Webb teaches undergraduate and graduate writing and communication courses in the EMS program as well as TESOL minor courses in the UCSB linguistics department. She completed her PhD in English Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Danny Tsai received his MA in TESOL from American University in 2014 as part of the Master's International Program with the United States Peace Corps, where he was assigned to the English Department at Jordan University of Science and Technology. He also taught Business English at Chinese Culture University in Taiwan and at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Amy Small joined the EMS faculty in 2016, but has worked in international education for over 30 years, teaching English for academic purposes as well as professional English. After finishing a B.A. in History, she turned her keen interest in language into an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language (UCLA).
Audrey Youngblood coordinates the ELPE and TA oral English language evaluations for new international graduate students, EMS course scheduling and textbook orders, prerequisite checking and clearance, approval code and waitlist administration, and beginning-of-quarter drops for non-attendance.