Please review the updated information on how to obtain approvals and signatures from the Academic Deans and the Executive Cabinet members.

updated January 25, 2024

Form Approval Process

Form Routing

Forms in the Academic Affairs Division only need to be routed once and to one location.

  • Academic Faculty and Academic Staff send all forms to the Deans Suite using DeansSuiteForms@cn-sportgoods.com
  • The staff and student worker team in the Deans Suite will route incoming forms accordingly.
  • The author of the form will be CC’d as the form moves out of the Deans Suite.
  • The Staff in the Deans Suite will forward documents requiring Executive signatures to VPsignatures@cn-sportgoods.com

Forms under other Divisions that need an Executive or Vice President signatures from the list below should be routed to VPsignatures@cn-sportgoods.com

  • Allen Bedford (Academic Affairs)
  • Krisi Fenner (Finance & Administration)
  • Travis Greene (Student Life & Success)
  • Ben Hoffman (Enrollment Management)

Additional Vice Presidents and Executive Administrators are listed at the end of this page with their specific contact.

Do:

  • Download the forms found on our website before typing into them. (Unless it is an online submission form.)
  • Utilize staff to move your form through the approvals process.
  • CC your Academic Support Staff person when sending a form to your Chair for signature.
  • DocuSign Programmers: DocuSigns to Deans, Vice Presidents, and the President must be programmed to CC the Assistant.
    • Deans: CC Misty Fear
    • VP’s: CC Sabrina Wille
    • President: CC Jennifer Johnson

Do Not:

  • Do not send forms directly to individual administrators for signature.  This includes contracts, grant applications, and rush documents.
  • Do not CC all potential and/or future signatories and/or the final recipient when routing forms.
    • This “shotgun approach” creates duplicate forms and slows the process.

Obtaining Dean Signatures

Send any form requiring a signature from the Deans listed below to DeansSuiteForms@cn-sportgoods.com.

  • MaryTheresa Seig (CAEH)
  • Jeff Bell (CICH)
  • Jeff Ueland (CBMS)

Subject line format: College-Dept_Last Name_Topic

Examples:

  • CBMS_ACCT_Doe _Travel_Ohio
  • CAEH_MUS_Smith_Expense

Do not CC individual deans or Misty Fear when forwarding documents for signature.
Once signed, documents will be forwarded to the next appropriate recipient.

Obtaining Administrator Signatures

Any form requiring a signature from the Administrators listed below must be sent to VPsignatures@cn-sportgoods.com.

  • Allen Bedford (Academic Affairs)
  • Krisi Fenner (Finance & Administration)
  • Travis Greene (Student Life & Success)
  • Ben Hoffman (Enrollment Management)

Subject line format: AdministratorLastName_College-Dept_LastName_Topic

Examples:

  • Bedford_CBMS-ACCT_Doe_Travel-Wisconsin
  • Greene_Student-Success_Smith_SER_Start-Up

Once signed, documents will be forwarded to the next appropriate recipient

  • Form authors will be CC’d as their form advances.
  • All previous signatories listed on the form will be CC’d as the form advances.

Hard copies of forms may be still be dropped at the Student Worker Station by President’s Office or mailed to Box 3.

Obtaining VP for American Indian Student Success Signatures

For signatures from Chrissy Downwind, VP for American Indian Student Success, email forms to Stephanie.Hendricks@cn-sportgoods.com or stop by Chrissy’s office (AIRC 110A)

Obtaining Athletics Signatures

For signatures from Brittany Lauritsen, Athletic Director, email forms to Debbie.Slough@cn-sportgoods.com.

Obtaining HR Signatures

Email BSU-NTC-HR@cn-sportgoods.com.

  • For any form for HR personnel.
  • For any form requiring Megan Zothman’s signature.

Obtaining the President’s Signature

Email forms to Jennifer.Johnson@cn-sportgoods.com.

  • You may also drop off hardcopy forms to the President’s Office Student Worker Desk in the lobby of the Administration Bay (3rd Floor Deputy)
  • Campus Mail forms to Jennifer Johnson, Box 3.
  • International Travel Requests that come up through the Deans Suite and VP Signatures will automatically be routed to the President’s Office for signature.