FUNCTION: To consider and propose changes in the rules of procedure and governance structure of the General Faculty and the Faculty Council and changes to the voting rights of the General Faculty; to study all proposed changes in and additions to the rules of procedure of the General Faculty and the Faculty Council; and to submit recommendations to the Faculty Council. If the recommendations concern the Faculty Council, the committee will report also to the president, as the head of the General Faculty. In addition, this committee's function is to make the final ruling in any election dispute or on any election matter not covered by the rules; to handle questions of interpretation of rules; and to determine questions of jurisdiction arising between the Faculty Council and the General Faculty.
COMPOSITION: Three (3) members elected at large from and by the voting members of the General Faculty, for three (3) year staggered terms. The secretary of the General Faculty and the chair of the Faculty Council shall serve as ex officio members with vote, and each 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.
Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
Annual Report
2020-2021 Faculty Rules and Governance Committee Annual Report
2021-2022 Membership
Committee Chair
Anthony Brown, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, and 2020-21 Faculty Council Chair
Email: anthony_brown@utexas.edu
Chair Elect
Domino Perez, Associate Professor, English
Email: drperez@austin.utexas.edu
2019-2022
Lisa L. Moore, Professor, English
2020-2023
Michelle Habeck, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
2021-2024
Jonathan Yan Chen, Professor, Division of Textiles and Apparel
2021-2022 Faculty Council Representatives
James Dyer, Professor, Information, Risk, and Operations Management
Carma R. Gorman, Associate Professor, Design and Creative Technologies
2021-2022 Ex-Officio Members with Vote
Charlotte Canning, 21-22 Secretary of the General Faculty and Professor, Theatre and Dance
Domino Perez, Chair Elect of the Faculty Council and Associate Professor, English