2019-2020 A6 General Faculty Rules and Governance Committee

FUNCTION: To consider and propose changes in the rules of procedure and governance structure of the General Faculty and the Faculty Council and changes to the voting rights of the General Faculty; to study all 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 (3) members elected at large from and by the voting members of the General Faculty, for three (3) year staggered terms. The secretary of the General Faculty and the chair of the Faculty Council shall serve as ex officio members with vote, and each 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, though, 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.

Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited

Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited

2019-2020 Initial Meeting

2019-2020 Membership

2019-2020 Committee Chair
Charlotte Canning, Professor, Theatre and Dance and 2018-19 Faculty Council Chair
Email: charlottecanning@utexas.edu

Chair Elect
Brian L. Evans, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and 2019-20 Faculty Council Chair
Email: bevans@ece.utexas.edu

2017-2020

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

2018-2021

Jennifer Moon, Associate Professor of Instruction, Biology Instructional Office

2019-2022

Lisa L. Moore, Professor, English

2019-2020 Faculty Council Representatives

Luisa Gil Fandino, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Textiles and Apparel
Yan Zhang, Associate Professor, Information

2019-2020 Ex-Officio Members with Vote

Charlotte Canning, Past Chair of the Faculty Council, Professor, Theatre and Dance
Brian L. Evans, Chair of the Faculty Council, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alan W. Friedman, Secretary of the General Faculty and Professor, English

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