Beth Tepsic
- Manager of Departmental Operations
211 Rodney A. Erickson Food Science Building
University Park, PA 16802
University Park, PA 16802
- Email eak173@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8668
- Teams Call me on Teams
Responsibilites
- Oversees daily operations of department
- Oversees budgets, income and expenditures
- Provides faculty assistance with budgets, meet with faculty to review their funds and grants and serve as liaison with Grants and Contracts Office
- Assists with graduate student appointments
- Assists with distribution of workload, grant salary distribution, pre-award authorization, no-cost extensions, and overhead return funds
- Human resource representative/liaison to College HR Office
- Coordinate all new hiring, from placing job ads to processing new, extended and reappointments for full-time faculty and staff
- Hires, trains and supervises departmental staff
- Approves all appointments in Workday; Serves as department timekeeper
- Initiates requests for all supplemental pays
- Approves all SIMBA, SAP Concur and Shop Onlion forms and documents
Awards
- College of Agricultural Sciences, Staff Laureate Customer Service Award, 2015
- College of Agricultural Sciences, Staff Laureate Trailblazer Award, 2018
- College of Agricultural Sciences, Ella Reagle Staff Assistant Award, 2021