20-21 C12 Responsibilities, Rights, and Welfare of Graduate Student Academic Employees Committee

FUNCTION: To advise the Faculty Council and the president on matters pertaining to the responsibilities, rights, and welfare of graduate student academic employees.

COMPOSITION: Five (5) voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms; one (1) staff graduate coordinator for a two (2) year term; and one (1) teaching assistant, one (1) assistant instructor, and one (1) graduate research assistant. Student members shall be appointed by the president from a panel of names submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two (2) voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one (1) year terms. Each fall, the committee shall elect a chair elect who shall be a voting faculty member of the committee, though, if that proves impossible, it shall elect a vice chair as an interim measure, while continuing to seek a chair elect. Each committee shall make an annual report on its work, in writing, to the General Faculty and Faculty Council. The chair of the Graduate Assembly shall appoint one (1) member of the Graduate Assembly for a one (1) year term as an ex officio voting member of the committee. One (1) representative from the Graduate School shall serve as an ex officio non-voting administrative advisor.

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Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited

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2019-2020 Annual Report

Responsibilities, Rights, and Welfare of Graduate Student Academic Employees Committee Annual Report

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2020-2021 Membership

2020-21 Committee Chair
Elizabeth T. Gershoff, Chair, Graduate Assembly and Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
Email: liz.gershoff@austin.utexas.edu

Chair Elect
Daina Berry, Professor, History
Email: drb@austin.utexas.edu

2018-2021

Todd J. Arbogast, Professor, Mathematics
Steven Warach, Professor, Neurology, Dell Medical School

2019-2022

Kerry A. Kinney, Professor, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

2020-2023

Daina R. Berry, Professor, History
Catherine E. Weaver, Associate Professor, Public Affairs

2020-2021 Faculty Council Representatives

Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay. Associate Professor, Pharmacy
Sonia Paban, Associate Professor, Physics

Staff Members

2020-2022

Philip A. Guerrero, Graduate Program Administrator, Jackson School of Geosciences

Student Members

2020-2021

Abigail Haslett, Graduate Student Assembly representative (TA)
Gregorio Ponti, Graduate Student Assembly representative (AI)
Lily Serach, Graduate Student Assembly representative (RA)

Administrative Advisers

2020-2021

Elizabeth T. Gershoff, Chair, Graduate Assembly (with vote)
James H. Cox, Graduate Studies Representative (without vote)