2018-19 A6 General Faculty Rules and Governance Committee

FUNCTION: To propose changes in the rules of procedure and governance structure of the General Faculty and the Faculty Council; to propose changes to the general voting rights of the General Faculty; to study all other proposed changes in and additions to the rules of procedure of the General Faculty and the Faculty Council; and to submit recommendations to the Faculty Council. If the recommendations concern the Faculty Council, the Committee will report also to the President, as the head of the General Faculty. In addition, this committee’s function is to make the final ruling in any election dispute or on any election matter not covered by the rules; to handle questions of interpretation of rules; and to determine questions of jurisdiction arising between the Faculty Council and the General Faculty.



COMPOSITION: Three members elected at large from and by the voting members of the General Faculty, for three-year staggered terms. The Secretary of the General Faculty and the Chair of the Faculty Council shall serve as voting members, and each year, the Chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms. Each year, the committee shall elect its own Chair and Vice Chair who shall be voting faculty members of the committee. 

Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited) 

Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited) 

2018-2019 Membership

2018-2019 Committee Chair
Jody L. Jensen, Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education
Email: jljensen@austin.utexas.edu

Vice Chair
Madeline Sutherland-Meier, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Email: madelinesm@austin.utexas.edu

2016-2019

Linda L. Golden, Professor, Marketing Administration

2017-2020

Madeline C. Sutherland-Meier, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

2018-2021

Jennifer Moon, Associate Professor of Instruction, Biology Instructional Office

2018-2019 Faculty Council Representatives

Minou Arjomand, Assistant Professor, English
Casey A. Boyle, Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Writing

2018-2019 Ex-Officio Members with Vote

Charlotte Canning, Chair of the Faculty Council, Professor, Theatre and Dance
Alan W. Friedman, Secretary of the General Faculty and Professor, English
Jody L. Jensen, Committee Chair, Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education
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