2019-2020 C12 Responsibilities, Rights, and Welfare of Graduate Student Academic Employees Committee

FUNCTION: To advise the Faculty Council and the president on matters pertaining to the responsibilities, rights, and welfare of graduate student academic employees.

COMPOSITION: Five (5) voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms; one (1) staff graduate coordinator for a two (2) year term; and one (1) teaching assistant, one (1) assistant instructor, and one (1) graduate research assistant. Student members shall be appointed by the president from a panel of names submitted by 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 chair of the Graduate Assembly shall appoint one (1) member of the Graduate Assembly for a one (1) year term as an ex officio voting member of the committee. One (1) representative from the Graduate School shall serve as an ex officio non-voting administrative advisor.

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2019-2020 Membership

2019-2020 Chair
Kerry A. Kinney, Professor, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Email: kakinney@mail.utexas.edu

Vice Chair/Chair Elect
To be determined
Email

2017-2020

Sarfraz Khurshid, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mary Jo Worthy, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction

2018-2021

Todd J. Arbogast, Professor, Mathematics
Steven Warach, Professor, Neurology, Dell Medical School

2019-2022

Kerry A. Kinney, Professor, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

2019-2020 Faculty Council Representatives

Germine H. Awad, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Elissa C. Steglich, Clinical Professor, Law

Staff Members

2018-2020

Philip A. Guerrero, Graduate Program Administrator

Student Members

2019-2020

Megha Joshi , Graduate Student Assembly representative (RA)
Madeline Elaine Monk , Graduate Student Assembly representative (AI)
Paige Erin Wheeler , Graduate Student Assembly representative (TA)

Administrative Advisers

2019-2020

Catherine E. Weaver, Chair, Graduate Assembly (with vote)
Dean P. Neikirk, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies (without vote)