The Associate Deans are here to help students understand the university's policies and procedures as stipulated in The Bulletin. They also direct students to various resources throughout the institution and help them with questions and issues relating to academic and intellectual direction, academic difficulty, course work, extended absence from class, choice of major, change of advisor, and leave of absence, among other things. Arts and Sciences students are assigned alphabetically to the deans. All Engineering students are assigned to Dean Knox.