Faculty Senate

Committees

Standing Committees | University Committees

Standing

Academic Affairs Committee

(2-year term; 1 representative from each college and 1 at-large representative)

Charge: Review and make recommendations on matters and policies relating to curriculum and other affairs concerning the faculty, including the Faculty Senate Constitution and bylaws.

College	Representative(s)	Term Ends
ATL	Vik Brown	2011.20
BUS	Tim Lewis	2010.20
CIET	Scott Hansen	2011.22
ED	Deb Hill	2010.20
HSS	Kevin Stein (chair)	2010.20
PVA	Virginia Stitt	2011.20
SCI	Ty Redd	2010.20

Distinguished Faculty Lecturer and Grace A. Tanner Committee

(2-year term; 1 representative from each college and 1 at-large representative)

Charge: Solicit and review abstracts, select appropriate lectures from the Faculty for presentation at the SUU Convocation series, and arrange receptions and/or other appropriate activities.

College	Representative(s)	Term Ends
ATL	Richard Eissenger	2010.20
BUS	David Berri	2010.20
CIET	Dezhi Wu	2010.20
ED	Mike McGarvey	2011.20
HSS	James Gustafson	2011.20
PVA	Andrew Marvick (chair)	2011.20
SCI	James Chrisholm	2011.20

Faculty Development and Evaluation Committee

(2-year term; 1 representative from each college and 1 at-large representative)

Charge: Determine areas of faculty development and methods of faculty evaluation. Duties include organizing and conducting Faculty Development Workshops during the year, planning annual Southern Utah Faculty Development Conference, and reviewing presentation proposals, reviewing faculty evaluation instruments and recommending revisions and additional instruments, reviewing faculty evaluation policies and recommend revisions, and conducting in-serve for administrators of the student evaluation of instruction forms and processes.

College	Representative(s)	Term Ends
ATL	Phil Roche	2010.20
BUS	Alan Hamlin (chair)	2010.20
CIET	Gretchen Rimmasch	2011.20
ED	Genell Harris	2011.20
HSS	Olga Godoy	2011.20
PVA	Matt Neves	2010.20
SCI	Fred Govedich	2011.20

Faculty Publication Award and Student Scholarship Committee

(2-year term; 1 representative from each college and 1 at-large representative)

Charge: Evaluate the annual award for the best scholarly publication by a Faculty member, solicit and arrange for display of faculty scholarship, and arrange for binding of faculty work if applicable. Evaluated the award for the Student Scholarship (this award is to provide a tuition scholarship and fees for one year for two applications, provided the recipient maintains 12 credits per semester and a 3.0 GPA.
Requirements:

Scholarship or professional commitment
Leadership or community service
Entering sophomore, junior, or senior for next school year
Demonstrated financial need
Nontraditional/returning student status, 25 years of age or older.

College	Representative(s)	Term Ends
BUS	Sophi Sukalakamala	2011.20
CIET	Jianlong Han	2010.20
ED	Wei Hasiao	2011.20
HSS	Emily Dean	2011.20
LIB	Phil Roche (chair)	2010.20
PVA	Susan Harris	2011.20
SCI	Rachel Smetanka	2011.20

Faculty Review Board

(2-year term; 1 tenured representative from each college and one tenured at-large representative.

Charge: review grievances raised which involve faculty. If a student is involved in the faculty grievance, two students will be added named by SUUSA Executive Officers and approved by the Faculty Senate Executive committee. This will be done on a case-by-case basis.

College	Representative(s)	Term Ends
ATL	Scott Lanning	2010.20
BUS	Roy Johnson	2011.20
CIET	Andreas Weingartner	2010.20
ED	Deb Hill	2010.20
HSS	Larry Ping	2011.20
PVA	Brian Hoover	2010.20
SCI	Cindy Wright (chair)	2011.20

Leave, Rank and Tenure Committee

(2-year term; 1 tenured representative1 from each college and 1 tenured at-large representative)

Charge: Review applications for LRT (sabbatical leave, rank advancement, tenure) for the current academic year in accordance with current LRT policy, review and report on effectiveness of current LRT policy, and collect and file the approved department and college LRT committee composition policies along with committee members’ names.

College	Representative(s)	Term Ends
LIB	Scott Lanning
BUS	Denise Woodbury	2011.20
CIET	Des Penny
ED	Tom Cunningham	2011.20
HSS	Suzanne Larson (chair)	2010.20
PVA	Carol Ann Modesitt	2010.20
SCI	Ty Redd

Outstanding and Distinguished Educator Award Committee

(2-year term; 1 representative from each college and 1 at-large representative)

Charge: The Faculty Senate Outstanding Educator Committee is charged with selecting SUU’s Outstanding Educator Award recipient and the two Distinguished Educator Award recipients. The selection process will include, the committee notifying the campus community of the nomination process and calling for and processing nominations. The committee will then select ten finalists and contact each finalist’s chair for a letter of support and a curriculum vita. The committee will review the finalists and make final selection of the Outstanding Educator and two Distinguished Educators. Those names will be forwarded to the Provost and the Office of University Relations the first week of March.

College	Representative(s)	Term Ends
LIB	Randy Christensen	2010.20
BUS	Robin Boneck	2011.20
CIET	Thad Morton	2011.20
ED	Carrie Trenholm (Chair)	2011.20
HSS	Larry Ping	2010.20
PVA	Peter Sham	2011.20
SCI	Kevin Tipton	2010.20

Policy/Procedure Arbitration Committee

(Faculty Senate President, Academic Affairs Committee Chair, Provost, a Dean appointed by the Provost)

Faculty Senate President	Gerald Calvasina
Academic Affairs Committee Chair	Kevin Stein
Dean	Carl Templin
Provost	Brad Cook

University Committees

Insurance Committee

VP Dorian Page - As needed meeting

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
Denise Woodbury	2011.2

Faculty Staff Association

Travis Rosenberg (Once a month)

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
Mark Miller	2010.20

Library Committee

Scott Lanning

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
Bruce Howard	2012.20

University Parking Committee

Chief Rick Brown/Patricia Gardner

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
Alan Pearson (SCI)	2011.20

University Press Editorial Board

Matt Nickerson

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
Derek Hein	2012.20

Undergraduate Research Advisory Board

Lynn White

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
Fred Govedich	2011.20

University Curriculum Committee

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
Michael Ostrowsky	2012.20

University General Scholarship Committee

Senate Representative(s)	Term Ends
President-Elect Deb Hill	2010.20