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