Committees of the Faculty Senate

Membership Roster

Chair: Kristine Nielsen, Meadows School of the Arts

ExCom Liaison: David Sedman, Meadows School of the Arts

Members:

  • Joan Arbery, Univesity Foundations 
  • Chris Logan, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Laura Robinson-Doyle, Simmons School of Education and Human Development 
  • Peter Moore, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Steve Lindquist, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Orly Mazur, Dedman School of Law
  • Ed Fox, Cox School of Business

Standing Charges

The Academic Policies Committee represents the General Faculty in all academic matters. Its purview shall include but not be limited to monitoring the general curriculum, interdisciplinary academic programs, university libraries, and the activities of non-School academic institutes and programs, as well as establishing the academic calendar of the University.

The Committee shall review standing policy regarding academic affairs and proposed changes in those policies. The Committee shall identify inadequacies in policy and propose revisions to the Faculty Senate.

The Committee shall monitor the general education curriculum and interdisciplinary programs in coordination with the appropriate curricular councils.

The Committee shall be responsible for the subcommittees named below, as well as others that may be assigned to it by the Senate. The chairs of these subcommittees shall be members of the committee but other subcommittee members need not be.

  1. Subcommittee on Admissions and Financial Aid
  2. Subcommittee on Libraries
  3. Subcommittee on the Academic Calendar of the University.

The Committee shall make an annual report to the Senate in writing.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025

  1. Review and make recommendations regarding the policy on Post-Matriculation transfer of credit from international institutions, assessing the validity and quality of some regions or institutions of concern.
  2. Consulting with Associate Provost Sheri Kunovich, assess transfer rates and suggest possible improvements.
  3. Examine the impact of General Education requirements on the ability to complete double majors in four years, with recommendations for improvement (see policies in consultancy with Associate Provost Dayna Osercherwitz)
  4. Monitor impact as we enter the first year of competing in the ACC.

Membership Roster

Chair: Sondra Barringer, Simmons School of Education and Human Development

ExCom Liaison: Alex Zhou, Cox School of Business

Members:

  • Gauri Bhat, Cox School of Business
  • Gary Brubaker, 无码专区 Guildhall
  • Troy Forte, Simmons School of Education and Human Development
  • Susanne Scholz, Perkins School of Theology
  • Robert Gregory, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Maribeth Kuenzi, Cox School of Business
  • Diana Easton, Lyle School of Engineering 

Standing Charges

The All-University Finance Committee represents the General Faculty in all matters concerning the financial status of the University. The Committee shall review the annual budgets of the University and the budget process, including financial plans for the University, investment strategies, capital investment plans, financial implications of faculty salary and faculty/staff benefit proposals and other such matters as may be referred to it by the Senate or the Executive Committee.

The Committee shall be responsible for Subcommittees named below as well as others that may be assigned to it by the Senate. The chairs of these Subcommittees shall be members of the committee, but other subcommittee members need not be.

  1. Subcommittee on Faculty Benefits
  2. Subcommittee on The Economic Status of the Faculty

The Committee shall brief the Senate each fall concerning the University budget for the current fiscal year and preliminary plans for the next fiscal year. This Committee shall brief the Senate each February concerning the budget to be proposed to the Board of Trustees for the next fiscal year. The Committee shall make an annual report to the Senate in writing.

Additional Charges from AY 2024-2025

  1. Explore the inclusion of more critical infrastructure, including IT teaching infrastructure, into the Plant Fund
  2. Begin exploring possibilities for reallocation of restricted endowment funds (Fund 20) that are not being utilized.
  3. Explore and identify challenges in equity across campus in budgetary process (including 无码专区 Budget indirect accounts).
  4. Monitor revenue from online and any other new(er) non-brick and mortar programs.

Membership Roster 

Chair & ExCom Liaison: David Sedman, Meadows School of the Arts

Members:

  • Justin Fisher, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Neely Myers, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Ian Harris, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Standing Charges

The Committee shall work with the Office of the Provost in the advance preparation of the academic calendar.

The Committee shall prepare a written report for action by the Senate at least eighteen months before the beginning of the academic year of the proposed calendar.

Additional Charge for AY 2024-2025:

  1. Create materials to train and pass along to future chairs of this committee (as needed).

Membership Roster

Chair: Meredith Richards, Simmons School of Education and Human Development

ExCom Liaison: Saaed Salehi, Lyle School of Engineering

Members:

  • Liljana Elverskog, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Stephanie Amsel, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Standing Charges

  1. The Subcommittee on Admissions and Financial Aid is a subcommittee of the Senate Academic Policies Committee and reports to the Executive Committee and the Senate through that committee.
  2. The Subcommittee shall represent the Senate in the University Admissions Council and inform the Senate of the Council's work.
  3. Its members shall also be the Senate's nominees to the University Admissions Council, and the chair of the Subcommittee shall normally serve as chair of that Council.
  4. The Subcommittee shall brief the Senate each fall on the current year's admissions results and financial aid commitments, and each spring on projections for the following year.
  5. The Subcommittee shall report annually to the Academic Policies Committee and Senate in writing.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-25

The following specific charges are made with the understanding that members of this Subcommittee represent the faculty on the University Admissions Council and that these charges are, in effect, the business of the entire Council.

Work with Vice President Wes Waggoner and Associate Provost Sheri Kunovich to:

  1. Monitor the competitiveness of financial aid packages compared to our peers and aspirational peers for all socio-economic segments, especially the most underprivileged students.
  2. Evaluate current processes for recruitment, scholarship support and retention initiatives to increase the racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity of the student body, both among transfer and non-transfer students to ensure greater representation of Pell eligible students in matriculating cohort.
  3. Evaluate any ethnic, racial and socioeconomic disparities in the updating of financial aid packages from year to year as students’ progress toward graduation,
  4. Develop processes to ensure greater representation of Pell eligible students in matriculating cohort.

Membership Roster 

Chair: John Potter, Simmons School of Education and Human Development

ExCom Liaison: James Lee, Perkins School of Theology 

Members:

  • Tiana Blair, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Macabe Keliher, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Cassie Walker, Dedman School of Law

Standing Charges

The Committee shall review policy for the University libraries. These reviews shall address the development and maintenance of library collections, the status and compensation of professional librarians, and such operational matters as hours of access, efficiency, impact of new construction and remodeling, and computerized library systems.

The Committee shall advise the directors of the libraries, and shall review annually the library budgets and the allocation of funds.

The Subcommittee shall report annually to the Senate in writing.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-25

Coordinate with Dean Holly Jeffcoat to:
  1. Monitor the progress of the demolition and then the progress on the new north wing of the library.
  2. Develop processes on how libraries can best help ensure the success of diverse student populations, including open access materials, strategic partnerships, technology-driven.
  3. opportunities for learning and novel library spaces, to ensure accessible and affordable learning and the development of critical information skills.
  4. Determine best practices among our peers and aspirational peers regarding libraries’ initiatives, library resources, librarians’ status and collaborations with faculty.
  5. Investigate the use, by school and department and library, of libraries resources (online and on campus), and identify in which areas library holdings and facilities most need.
  6. to be augmented to match academic aspirations (perhaps using ILL requests as an indicator of need).
  7. Increase faculty awareness of the impact of new degree plans on library resources and how to communicate those.
  8. Monitor the efficacy of off-site library for items displaced by Rees-Jones Library construction (interface with Iron Mountain).

Membership Roster

Chair: Jim Webb, Lyle School of Engineering

ExCom Liaison: James Lee, Perkins School of Theology

Ex Officio Athletics Council: Matthew Wilson, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Members:

  • Quan Xi, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Monnie McGee, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Ona Seaney, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Tomce Runcevski, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Standing Charges

The Athletics Policies Committee represents the General Faculty in all matters concerning intercollegiate athletics. Its members shall also be the Senate's nominees to the University Athletic Council, and Chair of the Committee shall normally serve as chair of that Council. The Committee shall review and recommend to the Senate policies and standards pertaining to:

  • Intercollegiate athletics.
  • The preparation and implementation of the Athletic Department budget.
  • The selection and retention of administrative personnel and head coaches in the Athletic Department.
  • The control of eligibility of all participants in athletics.
  • The control of the scheduling of games.
  • All other matters embraced within the rules of those intercollegiate athletic organizations of which the University is a member.
  • The Committee shall discharge these duties in cooperation and, where appropriate, in coordination with the All-University Finance Committee, the Subcommittee on
  • Admissions and Financial Aid, and the Student Policies Committee.
  • The Committee shall make an annual report to the Senate in writing.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025:

The following specific charges are made with the understanding that members of this Committee represent the faculty on the University Athletics Council and that some of these charges, but not all of them, are the business of the entire Council.

  1. Monitor the impact of the change in the NCAA transfer rule eliminating restrictions on the number of transfers an athlete can make within the ACC and all NCAA schools.
  2. Generally monitor the impact of moving to the ACC including but not limited to travel policies related to potentially more challenging travel schedules.
  3. Get an understanding of the financial implications in the 2024/5 athletics budgeting as they may directly or indirectly impact 无码专区’s educational business model.
  4. Continue to monitor scheduling conflicts of students affiliated with athletic programs and academic course work and obligations.
  5. Review the academic progress of students who have transferred under the new NCAA transfer rule and identify any areas of concern.

Membership Roster 

Chair: Maribeth Kuenzi, Cox School of Business

ExCom Liaison: James Lee, Perkins School of Theology

Members:

  • Watt “Les” Black, Simmons School of Education and Human Development
  • Harsha Gangammanavar, Lyle School of Engineering
  • Michael Chimieleski, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Fred Aquino, Perkins School of Theology
  • Susana Solero Adoboe, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Standing Charges

The Subcommittee on The Economic Status of the Faculty is a subcommittee of the Senate All-University Finance Committee and reports to the Executive Committee and Senate through that committee. The Subcommittee shall:

  1. Prepare, in consultation with the Provost's Office, appropriate studies of the economic status of the faculty.
  2. Work with the All-University Finance Committee in the preparation of coordinated recommendations on budgetary policies.
  3. Assist the Senate in promoting the economic status of the faculty. The Subcommittee shall support the All-University Finance Committee in that committee's semiannual briefings of the Senate.
  4. The Subcommittee shall report annually to the All-University Finance Committee and the Senate in writing.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025

  1. Compare accumulated faculty salary raises (3, 5, and 10 year average increases) with peer and aspirant institutions, including supplements, bonuses and the Stella Porter Russell Fund distributions, with the goal of assessing how 无码专区 increases accumulatively have kept pace over the longer-term.
  2. Assess and make recommendations on means of addressing inflation/cost of living in the coming year’s salaries.

Membership Roster

Chair: Janice Lindstrom, Meadows School of the Arts

ExCom Liaison: Anne Lincoln, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Members:

  • Lori Stephens, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Wayne Shaw, Cox School of Business
  • Maya El Dayah, Lyle School of Engineering

Standing Charges

  1. The Subcommittee on Graduate Education shall review and recommend policies to foster the professional development of the faculty and promote scholarly excellence in graduate education.
  2. The Committee shall understand its mandate to be broadly construed in a way that encompasses the diversity of professional activities and graduate education across all schools of the University.
  3. The Committee shall review and make recommendations to the Senate regarding graduate programs, including the recruitment of graduate students, awards of scholarship and loan assistance, and opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation.
  4. The Committee shall work in consultation with the Committee on Research and Creativity to ensure joint efforts where there is overlap in duties between these committees.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025:

  1. Consult as needed with the Dean of the Moody School of Graduate Studies to evaluate review, and recommend best practices and policies.
  2. Continue to monitor and advocate for more even and competitive graduate stipends and benefits across all doctoral the university.
  3. Continue to monitor and advocate for competitive graduate insurance and benefits across all masters degrees (both terminal and non-terminal degrees, particularly when such degree is the highest offered at 无码专区 in that area).
  4. Continue to monitor and establish best practices to increase diversity among graduate students.

Membership Roster

  • Scott Davis,Simmons School of Education and Human Development
  • Monika Ehrman, Dedman School of Law
  • James Lee, Perkins School of Theology
  • Anne Lincoln,Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Lourdes Molina, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Jennifer O'Brien, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Saeed Salahi, Lyle School of Engineering
  • David Sedman, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Alex Zhou, Cox School of Business

Standing Charges

The Executive Committee is composed of the president (who serves as its chair), the president-elect, and the immediate-past president. In addition, the secretary and four or more senators will be elected by the Senate to serve on the Executive Committee. An effort will be made to provide representation on the Executive Committee for all Schools and their electoral units. All members of the Senate are eligible for election to the Executive Committee. (Senate By-Laws, revised May 3, 2006).

The Executive Committee should exercise all functions granted to it by Article III of the Constitution. In particular the Committee shall:

  1. Represent the Senate to the University Administration between Senate meetings.
  2. Act for the Senate between academic semesters.
  3. Review annually the necessity of continuing various standing committees and propose to the Senate the abolition of unnecessary standing committees.
  4. Monitor the Faculty Handbook and the Policy Manual and from time to time appoint a special committee to revise the Faculty Handbook.
  5. Conduct all General Faculty elections.
  6. Nominate members of the Committee on Committees in a timely manner so that they can be elected at the first meeting of each new session of the Senate.

Additional Charges for 2024-2025

1. Potentially update the delivery of content in the Faculty Handbook to be more user-friendly and potentially deliver concise FAQ.

Membership Roster

Chair: Luigi Manzetti, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

ExCom Liaison: Scott Davis, Simmons School of Education and Human Development

Members:

  • Darryl Dickson-Carr, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Anna Mance, Dedman School of Law
  • Sara Idacavage, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Scott Norris, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Nuri Erashin, Cox School of Business
  • Saaed Salehi, Lyle School of Engineering
  • Harold Recinos, Perkins School of Theology

Standing Charges

  1. The Faculty Ethics and Tenure Committee represent the General Faculty in all matters concerning faculty ethics and tenure.
  2. The Committee shall defend the exercise of academic freedom throughout the University; investigate any matter endangering such freedom, and recommend remedies. To this end, the Committee shall review the established criteria and procedures for granting tenure and promotion. When appropriate, the Committee, in cooperation with the various schools of the University, shall recommend, through the Senate, changes in these criteria and procedures to the President of the University and the Board of Trustees.
  3. The Committee shall investigate questions of due process in individual tenure and promotion cases that are directed to it and make recommendations to the President. The Committee shall provide guidance concerning policies for professional behavior of the University's faculty.
  4. The Committee shall investigate alleged breaches in professional ethics, deliberate the circumstances when violations are found, and recommend action.
  5. The Committee shall take up any questions or investigations directed to it by the Faculty Senate, the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, the Provost, the President, or the Board of Trustees.
  6. This Committee shall consult with the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate concerning its responsibilities and work in progress.
  7. The Committee shall make an annual report to the Senate in writing, maintaining appropriate confidentiality.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025:

  1. Monitor the implementation for alignment of criteria and standards for tenure and promotion across schools and departments to ensure that procedures are fair and equitable throughout the university.
  2. Review post-tenure evaluation processes and policies at peer and aspirational institutions, especially their role in helping faculty prepare for the promotion from Associate to Full Professor.
  3. Monitor and address race and gender concerns.

Membership Roster

Chair: Theo Walker, Perkins School of Theology

ExCom Liaison: Monika Eherman, Dedman School of Law

Members:

  • Jessica Burnham, Lyle School of Engineering
  • Michael Braun, Cox School of Business
  • Kate Carte, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Raanju Sundararajan, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Justin Childress, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Holly Bowen, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Xiaodan Hu, Simmons School of Education and Human Development

Standing Charges:

The Committee on Graduate Education shall review and recommend policies to foster the professional development of the faculty and promote scholarly excellence in graduate education.

The Committee shall understand its mandate to be broadly construed in a way that encompasses the diversity of professional activities and graduate education across all schools of the University.

The Committee shall review and make recommendations to the Senate regarding graduate programs, including the recruitment of graduate students, awards of scholarship and loan assistance, and opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation.

The Committee shall work in consultation with the Committee on Research and Creativity to ensure joint efforts where there is overlap in duties between these committees.

Additional Charges for AY 2023-2024:

  1. Evaluate the renewed emphasis on graduate student participation in the Honors Council and make recommendations on next steps. Support recruitment of graduate students to participate in the Honors Council.
  2. Review the state of graduate stipends and benefits across the university and identify areas for improvement.
  3. Identify and report on the diversity of graduate students across campus. Make recommendations for areas of improvement.
  4. Look at the structure of the Senate’s Graduate Education committee and the Moody Graduate Council. Identify areas where additional clarity may be needed.

Membership Roster 

Co-Chair: Squirrel Eiserloh, 无码专区 Guildhall

Co-Chair: Marta Krogh, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Ex Com Liaison: Lourdes Molina, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Members:

  • Abigail Pruitt, Simmons School of Education and Human Development
  • Greta Davis, Simmons School of Education and Human Development
  • Miroslava Detcheva, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Lane Harder, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Ted Glasscock, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Standing Charges

  1. Advocate on behalf of non-tenure track faculty.
  2. Provide a system of parity to align the progression of non-tenure track faculty with the progression of tenure-track faculty.
  3. Explore best practices of peer and aspirant universities regarding policies related to non-tenure track faculty.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025

  1. Determine the best name for the committee.
  2. Explore the possibility of professional and teaching faculty receiving sabbatical or a process for awarding of sabbaticals or paid leaves.
  3. Monitor progress of 2024-approved policies and procedures of professional and teaching faculty.

Membership Roster 

Chair: Herve Tchumkam, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Ex Com Liaison: Jennifer O’Brien, Dedman III: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Members:

  • Nathan Cortez, Dedman School of Law
  • *Theo Walker, Perkins School of Theology 
  • Zoe Hess Carney, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Silas Farley, Meadows School of the Arts

*–member from Graduate Education

Standing Charges

  1. The Research and Creative Activity Committee shall understand its mandate to be broadly construed in a way that encompasses the diversity of professional, research and creative activities across all schools of the University.
  2. The Committee shall review and recommend policies to foster and facilitate excellence in research, creative, and professional activities across the university.
  3. The Committee shall monitor and recommend improvements to the resources and incentives available on campus for faculty research, creative, and professional activities, including structures available to support faculty access to external funding.
  4. The Committee shall review and make recommendations to the Senate regarding graduate research, including competitive graduate stipends, awards of scholarship and loan assistance, and opportunities for workshops, programs, and other means to train and educate students in grants and other fund-securing research, creative, and professional activities.
  5. The Committee shall review and recommend policies to foster and facilitate excellence in Post-Doctoral funding and operation.
  6. In consultation with the Academic Policies Committee, the Committee shall review, evaluate, and recommend changes to graduate education policies as they relate to promoting research and creative activity.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025

  1. Consult as needed in the hiring of support staff to support research and creative activity, particularly in grant processing and support at all stages.
  2. Review and refine Standing Charges as needed.
  3. Examine double-counting rules
  4. Explore the updates of in the last year.
  5. Impact of full-year scheduling
  6. Update on STABLE as it relates to curricular issues.

Membership Roster 

Chair: Constantine Icleanu, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

ExCom Liaison: Anne Lincoln, Dedman II: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Members:

  • Kristie Abt, Simmons School of Education and Human Development
  • Tashima Thomas, Meadows School of the Arts
  • Donna Binkowski, Dedman I: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
  • Leon Turner, Perkins School of Theology

Standing Charges

  1. The Student Policies Committee shall review and recommend policies to achieve and maintain a high quality of intellectual life for students at the University.
  2. The Committee shall review policies that affect the academic life of students beyond the classroom and influence the academic atmosphere of the University toward the goals of strengthening the intellectual growth of students and integrating the social and academic aspects of student life. This shall include but not be limited to policies and programs of the Office of Residence Life and Housing, the Foreign Student Advisor's Office, and other administrative units.
  3. In reviewing student academic life, the Committee shall consider the role of the sorority and fraternity system; the experience of students not participating in sororities and fraternities; the diversity of the student body; and the participation of international students, ethnically diverse students, and students with disabilities.
  4. The Committee shall receive the report of the faculty representative to the Board of Trustees’ Committee on Student Affairs.
  5. The Committee shall make an annual report to the Senate in writing.

Additional Charges for AY 2024-2025

With the help of the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Chaplain’s Office, and giving special attention to the vulnerable populations on campus

  1. Monitor mental health resources needed to serve student population and access to these mental health resources.
  2. Evaluate the impact of moving the primary recruitment/intake within the Fraternity & Sorority Life community earlier to the Labor Day weekend in September of 2024.
  3. Monitor the impact of the rules regarding class disruption across the country.