FUNCTION: The purpose of Student Athletes and Activities Committee is to maintain a formal communication channel between the faculty and student athletes and to advise the President on matters pertaining to student athletes.
COMPOSITION: Three members elected at large from and by the voting members of the General Faculty for three-year staggered terms. Two faculty members shall be appointed for one-year terms by the President, one each from among the faculty currently serving on the Intercollegiate Athletics Council for Men and the Intercollegiate Athletics Council for Women. Two student athlete members, one each from men’s and women's athletics, will be appointed by the President from a list submitted by the Student Athletes Advisory Council. In addition, every year the Chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms. The Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) shall serve on the committee in an advisory capacity. Each year, the committee shall elect its own Chair and Vice Chair, who shall be voting faculty members of the committee. The faculty-appointed representative to the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) will be invited to serve as an ex-officio member.
(Est. 2015 D 12174-12177)
Review of the Office of Athletics Student Services, Gene Marsh, January 12, 2016:
"UT Austin President Gregory L. Fenves, who commissioned the review after taking office last year, received the 49-page report of findings Tuesday and has directed Athletics Directors Mike Perrin and Chris Plonsky to begin to implement 14 recommendations it contains." ~UT News, January 13, 2016
Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics - http://www.thecoia.org/
Annual Reports of the General Faculty Standing Committees
2018-2019 Membership
2018-2019 Committee Chair
Pamela S. Buchanan, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Kinesiology and Health Education
Email: buchanan@austin.utexas.edu
Vice Chair & Chair Elect
Darren D. Kelly, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Kinesiology and Health Education
Email:
2016-2019
Pamela S. Buchanan, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Kinesiology and Health Education
Louis Harrison, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
2018-2021
Tracie C. Harrison, Professor, Nursing
2018-2019 Faculty Council Representatives
Germine H. Awad, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Anthony L. Brown, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
2018-2019 Intercollegiate Athletics Councils Faculty Reps
Allan H. Cole, Professor Social Work
Hillary Hart, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Student Members
2018-2019
Alison A. Gibson, Student Athlete, Diving
Winston Bennett Inoff, Student Athlete, Baseball
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2018-2019
Michael B. Clement, Professor, Accounting, Faculty Athletic Representative
Darren Kelly, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Kinesiology and Health Education, Faculty Representative on the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA)
Stephen H. Marshall, Associate Professor, American Studies, COIA Representative