A1 Committee of Counsel on Academic Freedom and Responsibility

This committee provides advice on, and investigates allegations of violations of, policies and procedures concerning tenure, promotion, annual, post-tenure, and mid-probationary faculty evaluations as well as the exercise of academic freedom in teaching, scholarship and expression.​

Function: To study problems in this area of concern; to advise on such problems or issues referred to it by any member of the faculty, the provost, the president, the chancellor, or the Board of Regents.

Composition: Seven (7) tenured faculty members chosen at large from and by the voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered 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. Deans, associate deans, assistant deans, department chairs, and other administrative officials are ineligible for election or appointment. 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 committee shall always contain a faculty member from the Law School by election or, if no Law School faculty member is elected, by appointment. Ideally, all members should be tenured full professors. Sometimes, however, insufficient numbers are available. In those instances, it is preferable to have associate professors than vacancies.

2024-25 Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited

2024-25 Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited

Membership

Chair
Lorraine Pangle, Professor, Government

Chair Elect
TBD

2022-2025

Brian Evans, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Kenneth F. Greene, Associate Professor, Government

2023-2026

Hina Azam, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Lorraine Pangle, Professor, Government
Jessica Toste, Associate Professor, Special Education (replacing former member spring 2024) - Lisa Moore, Professor, English serving for Professor Toste fall 2024

2024-2027

Andrea Gore, Professor, Pharmacy
Stephen Russell, Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences (Lisa Moore to serve spring 2025)

2024-2025 Faculty Council Representatives

Tracie Matysik, Professor, History
Shiv Ganesh, Professor, Communication Studies

2024-2025 Law School Faculty

Lawrence Sager, Professor