FUNCTION: The purpose of the Student Life Committee is to identify issues, act as a sounding board for student proposals, and facilitate communication with the Faculty Council.
COMPOSITION: Three (3) members elected at large from and by the voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms. Three (3) student members shall be appointed by the president, one (1) each from panels of two (2) names submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly, Student Government, and Senate of College Councils. 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.
(Est. 2010 D 7790; revamped in 2015 D 12174-12177)
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2018-2019 Scheduled Meetings
Monday, November 5th
Time: 2:30-3:30 PM
Location: Office of the General Faculty Conference Room, West Mall Building (WMB 2.102), located next door to the US Post Office just south of the West Mall
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2019-2020 initial Meeting
September 9 at 2:15 in MAI 212
Annual Report
2019-2020 Membership
2019-2020 Committee Chair
David S. Junker, Senior Lecturer, Advertising and Public Relations
Email: junker@austin.utexas.edu
Vice-Chair & Chair Elect
Nina K. Telang, Associate Professor of Instruction, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: telang@ece.utexas.edu
2017-2020
Karma R. Chavez, Associate Professor, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies (Effective the first-class day of fall 2019, replaced Julie A. Minich (Assistant Professor, English)
2018-2021
Paola Bonifazio, Associate Professor, French and Italian
2019-2022
Nina K. Telang, Associate Professor of Instruction, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2019-2020 Faculty Council Representatives
David S. Junker, Senior Lecturer, Advertising and Public Relations
Geoffrey Smith, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Student Members
2019-2020
Maya Dana Fehler, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Kaimen C. Goudy, Senate of College Councils Representative
Macarena Odalis Martinez, Student Government Representative