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| The NELC Department Office Staff NELC Department Mail Office, phone 617-495-5757, fax 617-496-8904, nelc@fas.harvard.edu Linda Mishkin, Department Administrator, 617-496-6055, lmishkin@fas.harvard.edu Ann Cooper, Staff Assistant, 617-496-4960, amcooper@fas.harvard.edu Jill Roszhart, Staff Assistant, 617-496-6982, roszhart@fas.harvard.edu Mary Medlin, Staff Assistant, 617-495-5757, nelc@fas.harvard.edu |
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• Networking your computer at Harvard: If you have a computer that needs to be connected to the Harvard network (i.e. your computer on-campus), you will need to contact the appropriate IT contact in your building. For those of you in the Semitic Museum , you may contact HASCS directly. For those of you in Vanserg, you should contact Rachel Rockenmacher in the Center for Jewish Studies. All other offices (CMES, Study of Religion), contact an administrator there. • Obtain or Change a PIN Number: To obtain or change a PIN number, please go to the Harvard University PIN Request Form at Harvard University PIN Request Form • Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS): HASCS provides a number of services for faculty. These services include, but are not limited to the services outlined here.
For a complete list of the computer support services for faculty and staff provided by FASCS and more information about the above, please see FASCS' website. • Instructional Computing Group: The Instructional Computing Group provides support for course websites, which are linked o the online FAS Courses of Instruction . For further information, please see the Instructional Computing Group's website. |
• Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in the Arts and Sciences (FAS Handbook): While you should receive a hard copy of this official publication of the FAS Office of the Registrar, this is available online at the FAS Office of the Registrar's website. • Courses of Instruction: The NELC contact for edits, policies, and other questions concerning the FAS Courses of Instruction is Jill Roszhart . The hard-copy of the FAS Courses of Instruction arrives at the end of August. The FAS Courses of Instruction online reflects the most up-to-date version of the Courses of Instruction. Additionally, the FAS Registrar's Office prints at the beginning of each term corrections to the printed version in the Supplement, which is available in hard copy and online. The Supplement also includes classroom assignments for courses. Other corrections to the Courses of Instruction and classroom assignments throughout the term are available online at the FAS Office of the Registrar's website in the Addendum. The NELC website serves as a resource as well, keeping updates to day and meeting, and classroom assignments available under Current Courses. • Classrooms: The NELC contact for your classroom needs and questions is Mary Medlin. Mary communicates with the FAS Classrooms office and assigns classroom space in the Semitic Museum and Widener Library. The FAS Office of the Registar publishes classroom assignments in the Supplment, available in hard copy and online at the beginning of each term. Corrections to this are available online in the Addendum. • Instructional Computing Group: The Instructional Computing Group provides support for course websites, which are linked o the online FAS Courses of Instruction . For further information, please see the Instructional Computing Group's website. • Media & Technology Services for your Courses: For FAS classroom assignments (other than Sever Hall assignments), please contact Instructional Media Services at x5-9460 or at mtsequip@fas.harvard.edu . For course located in classrooms in Sever Hall, please call the Instructional Media Services located on the 3rd floor of Sever Hall at x5-9470. For a course with an HDS classroom assignment, please contact Dan Hawkins at (38)4-9762 or at dan_hawkins@harvard.edu . |
Fax Machine: The department fax machine is located in the photocopy machine room (1st Floor, Semitic Museum). The department's fax number is (617) 496-8904. Please note that this machine is shared with the Semitic Museum and the Center for Jewish Studies. If someone is sending you a fax, please make sure they label the fax, so it may be directed to you. When you send a fax, it is extremely important that you use the NELC charge code after inputting the phone number and before sending your fax (Please have a departmental staff person show you how to use this machine the first time you need to use it). return to top |
Foreign Nationals: For extremely important information about the Preliminary Data Forms that need to be completed at least 3 months prior to arrival, obtaining a Harvard-sponsored Visa, new reporting requirements recently put forth by the US Government, and other important informationfor foreign nationals, please click here. return to top |
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Your Harvard ID card should arrive after the starting date of appointment to your primary University mailing address (most likely the NELC Department office), unless you have outstanding visa issues that are being taken care of when you arrive. If you have any difficulty obtaining your ID card please speak with the Department Administrator in the NELC office. |
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The below are meant to serve as resources for you as you locate a place to live. The NELC Staff is unable to assist with housing arrangements. • Online Housing Resources: |
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Mail Services: For your business mail, outgoing mail service through USPS that needs postage may be placed in the tray just inside the NELC main office door on the front desk. Generally, this mail will be posted that business day (or if it is a weekend, on Monday), and picked-up at 5:00pm. If you have an international letter or package weighing over 16 oz., please make sure to fill-out a US Customs Declaration Form, which may also be found at the front desk in the NELC office. The NELC department also has an account with FedEx should you have need for this. University Mail may be placed in the University Mail outside the NELC main office. (NOTE: If you are the Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies, CJS will be taking care of posting your outgoing mail. Please see one of the administrators in that office.) |
• Map of Holyoke Center (located at 1350 Massachussetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138) • Business Map of Harvard Square |
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In order to be added to the Harvard University payroll system, you will need to complete the following forms: W-4, I-9, and M-4. Please submit these directly to the Department Administrator in the NELC office. The NELC Department Staff is not able to answer questions or give advice on tax questions you may have (such as exemptions, personal allowances, etc). Additionally, you should set-up to have your paycheck direct deposited into you bank account. Instructions for doing are available at the link below. • W-4 (Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate |
Note: Federal copyright law prohibits the reproduction, distribution, public display or public performance of copyrighted materials without permission of the copyright owner, unless fair useor another exemption under copyright law applies. • Photocopier Machines: There are two photocopiers in the Semitic Museum for faculty use. These photocopiers are Crimson Cash equipped copiers. For those of you who will be doing a majority of your photocopying in the Semitic Museum (those with offices in the Semitic Museum or Vanserg), you will need a "Copy Services Card" (a.k.a. departmental copier card) to use these machines. Please see Mary Medlin in the NELC office regarding this card. For those of you with offices in other buildings, please see the department administrator in your office there regarding your photocopying needs. If you have personal copies to make you may put cash on your Harvard ID card through Crimson Cash for use on these machines. • General NELC Procedures and Policies Regarding Photocopies for NELC Courses: The department strongly encourages faculty to make use of coursepacks if there is a large amount of course-related material for students that requires photocopying. Currently, the Harvard University recommended vendor for coursepacks (materials for distirution requiring copyright clearance) is XanEdu. Other photocopying services: (1) Gnomon Copy: Located in Harvard Square. If you have course materials, such as articles or large handouts, for students in your course, you may leave these Mary Medlin in the NELC office and she will put them in the NELC student lounge for students to access. Should the student wish to photocopy these for academic purposes, there is a photocopier available for students in the student lounge. Using Crimson Cash, students pay $0.05/copy. You may direct your students to the NELC student lounge in the Semitic Museum for these materials. • Departmental Copier Cards for Teaching Fellows: If your course has been assigned a teaching fellow or teaching fellows who will be making photocopies of course materials for the course, please direct them to the NELC Department Office where they can check-out a departmental copier card from the NELC front desk to be used on the faculty and administrative photocopiers in the Semitic Museum. |
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The NELC Department office is located on the first floor of the Semitic Musuem building. The building itself is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. during the academic year. The majority of NELC faculty offices are on either the second or the third floor of the Semitic Museum, while some faculty members have offices in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Widener Library, and the Vanserg Building. In addition to NELC, the administrative offices for the Semitic Museum, the Center for Jewish Studies, Ashkelon Excavations, and the White/Levy Program for Archaeological Publication are housed in this building. The Semitic Museum, founded in 1889, is home to NELC and to the University's collections of Near Eastern archaeological artifacts. These collections comprise over 40,000 items, including pottery, cylinder seals, sculpture, coins and cuneiform tablets. Most are from museum-sponsored excavations in Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Cyprus and Tunisia. The Museum is dedicated to the use of these collections for teaching, research and publication of Near Eastern archaeology, history and culture. The Collections are exhibited in galleries on the first, second, and third floors. Galleries are open 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday. The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is the focal point for the study and teaching of Judaica through publications, fellowships, lectures and symposia on topics of interest to scholars and to the general public. The Center sponsors visiting scholars and post-doctoral research fellows and coordinates undergraduate and graduate studies on an interdisciplinary basis. The Ashkelon Excavations (The Leon Levy Expedition) provides students with the opportunity to dig at the ancient seaport of Ashkelon, capital of Canaanite kings, harbor of the Philistines, and stomping ground of the biblical hero, Samson. Students may earn college credit while digging in a beautiful national park overlooking the Mediterranean, 30 miles south of Tel Aviv and within walking distance of modern Ashkelon. Eight undergraduate or graduate academic credits are available through Harvard Summer School for an additional tuition fee for qualified full Summer Session volunteers. |
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| Widener Library: Departmental Library Rooms: The Department has three rooms on the top floor of Widener Library: the Gibb Room (Room Q), Arabic and Islamic collection; Room G, Assyriology collection; and Room 745, Jewish Studies collection. These departmental libraries are accessed using a card access system. Visitors can request to have card access to these materials through Mary Medlin, Staff Assistant in the NELC Department Office. Please give Mary your name, your Harvard ID number, and the departmental library, or libraries, you wish to which you would like access. Department classes are sometimes held in these rooms and the rooms are not available for research and study by visitors during these times. Normally, the amount of time the rooms are utilized for classes is minimal. A schedule of the times the rooms are to be used for classes will be posted on the door to each room. return to top |