FUNCTION: To study and evaluate proposals on educational policy and possible alternatives and to present recommendations on such matters to the Faculty Council. The committee shall actively seek advice from students.
COMPOSITION: Nine (9) voting members of the General Faculty, appointed for three (3) year staggered terms. Three (3) students shall be appointed by the Senate of College Councils, and one (1) by the Graduate Student Assembly. The student members must be from different colleges and should attempt to achieve gender diversity. The student members should include at least one (1) professional student. The Graduate Student Assembly’s appointee shall be a graduate student who is or has served as an assistant instructor or teaching assistant at the University. 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; 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 provost, the dean of Undergraduate Studies, the director of Testing and Evaluation Services, and the registrar shall serve as administrative advisors without votes. The Campus Academic Deans (consisting of the academic deans in each college or school) and the Academic Counselors’ Association shall each nominate a consultant without a vote.
Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
Mark Your Calendars:
SPRING 2020 MEETING SCHEDULE
All meetings to be held in MAI 26
January 28, 9-10am
February 25, 9-10:30am
March 13, 9-10:30am
April 3, 9:30-11am **FAC 328**
April 28, 9:30-11am
FALL 2019 MEETING SCHEDULE
October 16: 8-9 am, Gebaurer Building 3rd Floor Conference Room (GEB 3.312)
Regular EPC meeting
October 25: 2-3:30 pm, Gebaurer Building 4th Floor Conference Room (GEB 4.214)
Joint meeting of two task forces; all welcome
November 20: 8-9 am, Gebaurer Building 3rd Floor Conference Room (GEB 3.312)
Regular EPC meeting
December 17: 1-2 pm, Gebaurer Building 4th Floor Conference Room (GEB 4.214)
Regular EPC meeting
Annual Reports of the General Faculty Standing Committees
Annual Report
2019-2020 Membership
2019-2020 Committee Chair
Christine L. Julien, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: c.julien@utexas.edu
Vice Chair & Chair Elect
Kristin E. Harvey, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Statistics and Data Science
Email: kharvey@utexas.edu
2017-2020
Kristin E. Harvey Assistant Professor of Instruction, Statistics and Data Science (replacement for Barbara L. Jones (Professor, Social Work) who resigned form the committee in fall 2018)
Elizabeth D. Scala, Professor, English
David W. Taylor, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biosciences (replaced Professor Cindy Carlson who resigned from the committee in July 2018)
2018-2021
Ruth E. Buskirk, Professor of Instruction, Biology Instructional Office
Christine L. Julien, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael S. Mackert, Professor, Advertising and Public Relations (replaced Jody L. Jensen who retired August 31, 2019)
2019-2022
Katie E. Ortego Pritchett, Lecturer, Management
Patricia Somers, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Lorenzo A. Sadun, Professor, Mathematics
2019-2020 Faculty Council Representatives
Shannon Eileen Cavanagh, Associate Professor, Sociology
Joel P. Johnson, Associate Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences
Student Members
2019-2020
Isaac Warren James, Senate of College Councils Representative
Morgan L. Kunde, Senate of College Councils Representative
Christopher D. Wight, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Veda H. Yagnik, Senate of College Councils Representative
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2019-2020
Thereisa Coleman, Director, Testing and Evaluation Services
Rachelle Hernandez, Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment Management
Brent L. Iverson, Dean, School of Undergraduate Studies
Mark Simpson, Assistant Vice Provost and University Registrar
Consultants without Vote
2019-2020
W. Reneé Acosta, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Pharmacy
Cassandra Burton, Academic Counselors’ Association, interim President