21-22, C10 Recruitment and Retention Committee

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.

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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