FUNCTION: To initiate and review policies and procedures; to hear appeals from decisions of the Office of Financial Aid.
COMPOSITION: Five (5) voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms, representing five (5) colleges or schools; five (5) students, including at least two (2) who are receiving, or have received, financial aid from the Office of Financial Aid; and two (2) staff members for two (2) year staggered terms. Four (4) of the students shall be appointed by the president from a panel of eight (8) nominees submitted by Student Government; the fifth student shall be appointed by the president from a panel of two (2) nominees submitted by the chair of the Graduate Student Assembly. In addition, every 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. The executive director of the Office of Financial Aid, a representative of the Dean of Students, and a representative from the Graduate School shall serve as administrative advisers without vote. The president may appoint additional non-voting administrative advisors from the general administration areas of the University.
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"The B-1 Committee on Financial Aid to Students would like to thank you for your initiatives to improve financial aid to students at UT Austin. Your leadership has brought renewed focus to
this critical need. Your plans to expand the Texas Advance Commitment and to increase affordable on-campus housing are important commitments toward improving access to higher
education for students with financial need, enabling social mobility, and increasing the diversity of the student body. We are especially delighted that support for students will be a
major component of the upcoming capital campaign. Please let us know if there are ways that we can help the campaign to reach (or better, exceed!) its goals."
2019-2020 Membership
2019-2020 Committee Chair
Katie Pritchett, Lecturer, Management
Email: katie.pritchett@utexas.edu
Interim Vice Chair
Paul A. Bonin-Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
Email: pbonrod@austin.utexas.edu
Chair Elect
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
Email: pbonrod@austin.utexas.edu
Administrative Support
May Steigman, Office of Financial Aid
Email: may.steigman@austin.utexas.edu
2017-2020
Nigel Atkinson, Professor, Neuroscience
2018-2021
Katie Pritchett, Lecturer, Management
D. Max Snodderly, Professor, Neuroscience
2019-2022
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
Yolanda C. Padilla, Professor, Social Work
2019-2020 Faculty Council Representatives
Alex Beasley, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Ami Pedahzur, Professor, Government
Staff Members
2018-2020
April Stephens Rogers, Program Development Coordinator, Law
2019-2021
Ann Robson Sellers, Administrative Associate, Department of Psychology
Student Members
2019-2020
Willie James Crawford III, Student Government Representative
Rodney Leland Ellis, Student Government Representative
Octavian Jerel Moten, Student Government Representative
Samantha Leigh Night, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Radhika Mukund Patel, Student Government Representative
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2019-2020
Marvin L. Hackert, Associate Dean, Office of Graduate Studies
David Lessenberry, Student Veteran Advisor, Office of the Dean of Students Representative
Diane Todd Sprague, Director, Office of Financial Aid