FUNCTION: To address issues relating to recruitment and retention of historically underrepresented students and to advise the Faculty Council and the president on initiatives related to their 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 African American 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 Report
2021-2022 Membership
Chair
Mary Beltran, Associate Professor, Radio-Television-Film
Email: mary.beltran@austin.utexas.edu
Chair Elect
Marie-Anne Suizzo, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
2019-2022
Michael B. Clement, Faculty Minority Liaison Officer and Professor, Accounting
Lisa L. Moore, Professor, English
2020-2023
Mary Beltran, Associate Professor, Radio-Television-Film
2021-2024
Dev Niyogi, Professor, Geological Sciences
Shelly Rodriguez, Professor of Practice, UTeach-Natural Sciences
2021-2022 Faculty Council Representatives
Pauline Strong, Professor, Anthropology
Marie-Anne Suizzo, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Staff Members
2020-2022
Alicia Zapata, Graduate Program Administrator, Special Education
2021-2023
Madison Gove, Program Manager, Finance
2021-2022 Coordinator of the Sanger Learning and Career Center with Vote
Paige Schilt, Director, Sanger Learning Center
Student Members
2021-2022
TBD, Student Government Representative
TBD, Student Government Representative
TBD, Student Government Representative
Dom Gallery, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Administrative Advisers with Vote
2021-2022
Phaedra White Abbott, Senior Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies
Susan C. Harkins, Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Instruction, Natural Sciences
Tiffany Tillis Lewis, Assistant Vice-President, Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2021-2022
Darren Kelly, Representative for the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement
Brian Dixon, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management
TBD, African American Alumni Association Representative
TBD, Hispanic Alumni Association Representative
Guest Member
2021-2022
Leon L. Holland, The Precursor Representative