Lookup of Department Data

The program assign allows one to look up the teaching and committee responsibilities of our faculty, by semester. The program is currently not installed, if you want it you will have to copy it from here, place it in a directory in your path on the Suns, and make it executable (chmod +x assign).

Basic use is assign shapiro to find out what courses and committee assignment I have in the current semester.
To find out who taught 203 in the spring of 1994, assign -s94 203.
assign simply does a search on a string in a file for the corresponding semester.    assign -h string searches a file of committee abbreviations, so if you want to know who was on the committee to consider honors for the faculty in spring 2000, and didn't know the abbreviation for that committee, you could assign -h honor, which would answer

Faculty Honors	FacHonr
Honors	honors

and then assign -s00 fachonr would give you all nine committee members.

Note all searches are case-insensitive.

There is even a man page .

If people find this useful, the assign program could be installed for general use, so people would not have to install it themselves.

Note the if you just want the current semester's committee assignments, they are on the department home page, by clicking "Department Directory" then "Faculty Committee Assignments".