{"id":1163,"date":"2023-08-10T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/?page_id=1163"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:45:25","slug":"faculty-ombuds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/faculty-ombuds\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Ombuds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-vertically-aligned-center advgb-dyn-5dd009c0\" style=\"grid-template-columns:26% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2023\/06\/DJ-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Man in a purple Tarleton State University polo shirt.\" class=\"wp-image-1168 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2023\/06\/DJ-1.jpeg 399w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2023\/06\/DJ-1-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2023\/06\/DJ-1-320x400.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Dr. Dennis Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Faculty Ombuds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:ombuds@tarleton.edu\">ombuds@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Office: <a href=\"http:\/\/254-595-7290\">(254)-595-7290<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Faculty Ombuds provides members of the faculty with voluntary, informal, neutral, and confidential third-party assistance in resolving university-related issues, concerns, or conflicts. The Ombuds assists faculty members with interpersonal conflicts or disputes, including those with concerns about academic or administrative issues. The Ombuds must maintain confidentiality and use sound judgement in sharing information, consistent with the standards of practices &amp; code of ethics of the international Ombudsman Association. In addition, the Ombuds provides outreach to the University through consultation and workshops. It is expected that the Ombuds would maintain membership in the International Ombuds Association while active in the position. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ombudsassociation.org\/\">International Ombuds Association<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The faculty Ombuds maintains program records as appropriate and makes an annual report to the provost of aggregated number of visitors\/users of the Faculty Ombuds Program, as well as a summary of presented issues (always maintaining confidentiality).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Faculty Ombuds Program operates independently as a supplement to existing administrative or formal grievance procedures and has no formal decision-making authority. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dennis Jones Faculty Ombuds Email: ombuds@tarleton.edu Office: (254)-595-7290 The Faculty Ombuds provides members of the faculty with voluntary, informal, neutral, and confidential third-party assistance in resolving university-related issues, concerns, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":580,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1163","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/author\/dmartinez\/","display_name":"dmartinez"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 10, 2023","modified":"Updated on September 9, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 10, 2023 9:39 pm","modified":"Updated on September 9, 2025 2:45 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}