Brown University
Task Force on Faculty Governance
Motions to Create, Rename and Revise
Faculty Committees
January 17, 2003
Approved Motions
- To
Create the Academic Priorities Committee (APC)
- To
Replace ACUP by the University Resources Committee (URC)
- To
Revise and Rename the Committee on Faculty Reappointment and Tenure (ConFRaT) as Tenure, Promotions and Appointments
Committee (TPA)
- To
Create the University Curriculum Committee (UCC), and to Revise the
College Curriculum Council (CCC), and the Graduate Council
- To
Revise the Standing Committee on the Academic Code
- To
Create the Committee on Grievance
- To
Revise the Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) and to Create the Nominations
Committee for the Faculty Executive Committee (NCFEC)
Pending Motions
- To
Create the Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC) and the Faculty
Diversity Subcommittee (FDS)
- To
Create Administrative Advisory Boards
- To
authorize the Faculty Executive Committee to make cosmetic changes to
Faculty Rules and Regulations as a result of Faculty Governance changes
- To
mandate the Faculty Executive Committee to review all changes to faculty
governance
- To
empower the Faculty Executive Committee to allow continuance of existing
committees
Unchanged Faculty Committees
- Honorary
Degrees Committee
- Medical
Faculty Executive Committee
- Committee
on Medical Faculty Appointment
- Creative
Arts Council
Unchanged Non-Faculty Committees
- University
Disciplinary Committee
- Presidential
Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment
- John
Carter Brown Library Faculty Liaison Committee
Prepared by John E.
Savage