20-21 C4 Educational Policy Committee

FUNCTION: To study and evaluate proposals on educational policy and possible alternatives and to present recommendations on such matters to the Faculty Council. The committee shall actively seek advice from students.



COMPOSITION: Nine (9) voting members of the General Faculty, appointed for three (3) year staggered terms. Three (3) students shall be appointed by the Senate of College Councils, and one (1) by the Graduate Student Assembly. The student members must be from different colleges and should attempt to achieve gender diversity. The student members should include at least one (1) professional student. The Graduate Student Assembly’s appointee shall be a graduate student who is or has served as an assistant instructor or teaching assistant at the University. One (1) staff member who is a member of the Academic Counselors’ Association. 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; 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 provost, the dean of Undergraduate Studies, the director of Testing and Evaluation Services, and the registrar shall serve as administrative advisors without votes. The Campus Academic Deans (consisting of the academic deans in each college or school) shall nominate a consultant without a vote.

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Initial Meeting

September 8, 2020
3:30 - 5:00
Via Zoom (Zoom invitation will be sent by committee chair)

2020-2021 Membership

2020-21 Committee Chair
Kristin E. Harvey, Associate Professor of Instruction, Statistics and Data Science
Email: kharvey@utexas.edu

Chair Elect
Kristin E. Harvey

Vice Chair
Pedro Reyes
preyes@austin.utexas.edu

2018-2021

Ruth E. Buskirk, Professor of Instruction, Biology Instructional Office
Christine L. Julien, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael S. Mackert, Professor, Advertising and Public Relations (replaced Jody L. Jensen who retired August 31, 2019)

2019-2022

Katie E. Ortego Pritchett, Lecturer, Management
Lorenzo A. Sadun, Professor, Mathematics
Patricia Somers, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies

2020-2023

Carma R. Gorman, Associate Professor, Design and Creative Technologies
Pedro Reyes, Professor, Education Leadership and Policy
Angela Valenzuela, Professor, Education Leadership and Policy

2020-2021 Faculty Council Representatives

Christina Markert, Professor, Physics
Jennifer Moon, Associate Professor of Instruction, Biology

Student Members

2020-2021

Katherine Dunbar, Senate of College Councils Representative
Echo Nattinger, Senate of College Councils Representative
Mohana Seelan, Senate of College Councils Representative
Christopher D. Wight, Graduate Student Assembly Representative

Administrative Advisers without Vote

2020-2021

Thereisa Coleman, Director, Testing and Evaluation Services
Rachelle Hernandez, Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment Management
Brent L. Iverson, Dean, School of Undergraduate Studies
Mark Simpson, Assistant Vice Provost and University Registrar

Consultants without Vote

2020-2021

W. Reneé Acosta, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Pharmacy, Campus Academic Deans Representative
Stephanie M. Cantú, Senior Student Program Coordinator and President, Academic Counselors’ Association