FUNCTION: The Faculty Grievance Committee is authorized to consider and hear or otherwise dispose of individual grievances. Faculty grievance procedures are set forth in HOP 2-2310 of the UT Austin Handbook of Operating Procedures.
COMPOSITION: Twenty (20) voting members of the General Faculty, for three (3) year staggered terms. Ten (10) members elected at-large by the General Faculty and ten (10) members appointed by the president through the regular procedures of the Committee on Committees. 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. The total committee membership shall include no more than five (5) faculty members from any college or school. 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 past chair shall serve as an ex officio, voting member of the committee. All members of the committee shall have tenure and, if possible, hold the rank of professor.
2024-2025 Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
2024-2025 Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited)
Annual Report
Meetings
October 10, 3 PM, WMB 2.102
Membership
2024-25 Committee Chair
Johann Hans Hofmann, Professor, Integrative Biology
Chair Elect
Elizabeth Gershoff, Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
2022-2025
Noël Busch-Armendariz, Professor, School of Social Work **
Yolanda Padilla, Professor, Social Work *
Sergio Romero, replacing former member, fall 2023 *
Johann Hans Hofmann, Professor, Integrative Biology *
Joshua Gunn, Professor, Communication Studies **
Jonathan Chen, Professor, Textiles and Apparel **
2023-2026
Caroline Bartel, Professor, Management *
Zenzi Griffin, Professor, Psychology **
Linda Mullenix, Professor, School of Law **
Harvey Lederman, Professor, Philosophy *
Audrey Stone, Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education **
Bo Xie, Professor, School of Nursing *
Jung Kwak, Associate Professor, School of Nursing **
2024-2027
TBD **
Terrance Green, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy**
Michael Harney, Professor, Spanish And Portuguese**
Brian Evans, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering*
Elizabeth Gershoff, Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences*
Amy Lee, Professor, Neuroscience*
Julie Hardwick, Professor, History*
2024-2025 Faculty Council Representatives
Eddie Chambers, Professor, Art and Art History
Seth Garfield, Professor, History
Ex Officio with Vote
Janice Fischer, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, and Past Chair of the Faculty Grievance Committee
Notation
* Members elected by the General Faculty.
** Members appointed by the President from nominees submitted by the Committee on Committees.