FUNCTION: To study proposals on educational policy and assess their possibilities and alternatives; to present recommendations on such matters to the Faculty Council. The committee shall actively seek advice from students.
COMPOSITION: Nine voting members of the General Faculty for three-year staggered terms. Three students shall be appointed by the President from a panel of names submitted by the Senate of College Councils, and one from a panel submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly. All undergraduate members must be from different colleges and include at least one lower-division and one -upper-division student. The Graduate Student Assembly panel shall include at least one graduate student who is or has served as an assistant instructor or teaching assistant in an undergraduate course at UT Austin. In addition, every 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. The Provost, the Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and the Director of Testing and Evaluation Services, a representative of the Faculty Innovation Center, and the Registrar shall serve as administrative advisors without votes. The Chair of the Student Deans' Committee and the President of the Academic Counselors' Association shall serve as consultants without votes.
Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
Mark Your Calendars:
All of the meetings will be held in the 4th floor conference room in Gebauer Hall.
March 6, 11am-12:15pm
April 3, 11am-12:15pm
April 24, 11am-12:15pm
2018-2019 Membership
2018-2019 Committee Chair & Chair Elect
Christine L. Julien, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: c.julien@utexas.edu
Candidate for Vice Chair Elect
Kristin E. Harvey
Email: kharvey@utexas.edu
2016-2019
Seema Agarwala, Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences
Michael S. Mackert, Associate Professor, Advertising and Public Relations
Katie Elizabeth Ortego Pritchett, Lecturer, Management (replacement for Jodi Casabianca-Marshall (Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology) who left the University)
2017-2020
Kristin E. Harvey Assistant Professor of Instruction, Statistics and Data Science (replacement for Barbara L. Jones (Professor, Social Work) who resigned form the committee in fall 2018)
Elizabeth D. Scala, Professor, English
David W. Taylor, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biosciences (replaced Professor Cindy Carlson who resigned from the committee in July 2018)
2018-2021
Ruth E. Buskirk, Professor of Instruction, Biology Instructional Office
Jody L. Jensen, Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education
Christine L. Julien, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018-2019 Faculty Council Representatives
Katherine Alexis Biberdorf, Associate Professor of Instruction, Chemistry
Lorenzo A. Sadun, Professor, Mathematics
Student Members
2018-2019
Katherine C. (Katie) Lee, Senate of College Councils Representative
Alcess C. Nonot, Senate of College Councils Representative
Amrutha Sreedharane, Senate of College Councils Representative
Christopher David Wight, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2018-2019
Thereisa Coleman, Director, Testing and Evaluation Services
Hillary Hart, Director, Faculty Innovation Center
Rachelle Hernandez, Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment Management
Brent L. Iverson, Dean, School of Undergraduate Studies
Brenda A. Schumann, Interim Vice Provost and Registrar
Consultants without Vote
2018-2019
W. Reneé Acosta, Student Deans' Committee Chair
Jesus Guevara, Academic Counselors' Association President