The committee shall be composed of the officers and chairs of the standing committees of the Faculty Senate and the immediate past president. The committee shall be chaired by the president of the senate. This committee coordinates the business to come before the senate.
R.Tolga Turgut
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
Skurla Hall Bldg., Room 210 E
Aaron Welters
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Frederick C. Crawford Bldg, 319
Razvan Rusovici
Associate Professor of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences
Vipuil Kishore
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Edwin A. Link Building, 319
Members:
The committee shall be concerned with all policies of an academic nature that pertain to students, including recruitment, entrance requirements, class attendance regulations, student counseling, and placement and academic misconduct.
Nakin Suksawang (Chair)
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
F.W. Olin Engineering Complex, 204
Members:
The committee shall be concerned with policies that affect faculty welfare and morale. This committee should make recommendations concerning fringe benefits, tuition benefits, equity raises and other related matters.
Julie Costopoulos (Chair)
Associate Professor of Psychology
F.W. Olin Engineering Complex, 305
Members:
The committee shall be concerned with providing opportunities that emphasize people and activities that significantly contribute to the excellence of the university's distinctive educational programs. Duties include providing recommendations on the use of monies for professional development; recognizing outstanding faculty in the areas of teaching, research and service; coordinating forums for faculty discussion on educational issues; and disseminating information about effective teaching.
Mehmet Kaya (Chair)
Associate Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences
Edwin A. Link Building, 305
Members:
The committee shall be concerned with policies that relate to the employment conditions of the faculty and make recommendations relative to such policies as qualifications for promotion, contract renewals, research, teaching loads, extracurricular assignments, summer employment, absence, sabbatical leaves, travel, dissemination of information to and from the faculty, academic freedom and related policies.
Nezamoddin Nezamoddini-Kachouie (Chair)
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Frederick C. Crawford Bldg, 311
Members:
The committee shall be responsible for the administration and financial aspects of the senate’s scholarship program. The committee shall determine the number of scholarships and the departments to which scholarships will be awarded.
TBA
Harris Center For Science and Engineering, room 207
Members:
The committee shall be concerned with issues that relate to technology, resources, and infrastructure critical to faculty success in the core areas of teaching, research, and service. As an example, the committee shall provide recommendations to the faculty senate with regards to requirements in information technology, information assurance, educational equipment, learning management systems, enterprise architecture considerations, facilities, and critical technologies, resources, and infrastructure for faculty to conduct, evolve, and excel in their teaching, research, and service roles/missions. The committee will interact and participate with university committees as needed to represent faculty interests relative to technology, resources, and infrastructure.