FUNCTION: To address issues relating to recruitment and retention of minority students and to advise the Faculty Council and the president on constructive solutions to any problems related to recruitment and retention.
COMPOSITION: Four (4) voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms, one (1) departmental faculty minority liaison officer for a three (3) year term, and two (2) staff members (at least one (1) shall be an academic advisor or graduate coordinator) for two (2) year staggered terms. Three (3) students shall be appointed by the president from a panel of six (6) names submitted by Student Government and one from a panel of two (2) names submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly. The coordinator of the Sanger Learning Center and three (3) members of the administration shall be appointed by the president for one (1) year terms. 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 senior vice provost for enrollment management, the vice president for diversity and community engagement, a representative from the Black Alumni Association, and a representative from the Hispanic Alumni Association shall serve as ex officio members without votes.
Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
Annual Reports of the General Faculty Standing Committees
2019-2020 Meeting Schedule
To be determined
2019-2020 Membership
2019-2020 & 2020-2021 Chair
Susan C. Harkins, Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Instruction, Natural Sciences
Email: sharkins@austin.utexas.edu
2019-2020 Vice Co-Chairs
Merideth M. C. Cox, Senior Administrative Associate, Graduate and International Admissions Center
Email: merideth.cox@austin.utexas.edu
Email: michelle.daniel@utexas.edu
2017-2020
Blinda McClelland, Associate Professor of Instruction, Biology (replaced Matt T. Richardson, Associate Professor, English)
2018-2021
Erin M. Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology and Dell Medical School
2019-2022
Michael B. Clement, Faculty Minority Liaison Officer and Professor, Accounting
Lisa L. Moore, Professor, English
2019-2020 Faculty Council Representatives
Jamie C Barner, Professor, Pharmacy
Lydia Maria Contreras, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Staff Members
2018-2020
Susanne Cruz Morrison, Senior Administrative Associate, Institute for Geophysics
2019-2021
Merideth M. C. Cox, Senior Administrative Associate, Graduate and International Admissions Center
2019-2020 Coordinator of the Sanger Learning and Career Center with Vote
Edward L. Fernandez, Program Administrator for Academic Counseling and Tutorial Services (ACTS)
2019-2020 Members of the Administration with Vote
Phaedra White Abbott, Senior Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies
Aileen Bumphus, Associate Vice President, Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence
Susan C. Harkins, Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Instruction, Natural Sciences
Student Members
2019-2020
Michelle Daniel, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Ricky Allen Cooks, Student Government Representative
Grahm Ruben Gonzalez, Student Government Representative
To be determined, Student Government Representative
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2019-2020
Thais Dazettia Bass-Moore, Director, Fearless Leadership Institute and the African American Alumni Association Representative
Rachelle Hernandez, Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment Management
Milagros I. Lopez, Associate Director for Community and External Relations and the Hispanic Alumni Association representative
Leonard N. Moore, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement
Guest Member
Leon L. Holland, The Precursor Representative