2018-19 B4 Student Athletes and Activities Committee

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/ 

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