Senate Committee Membership

• 2011-2012 Listing
• Davis Division Organizational Chart

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• Academic Freedom & Responsibility   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee studies any conditions within or outside the University, which in the judgment of the committee, may affect the academic freedom of the University or any of its individual members.

• Admissions & Enrollment   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This committee is authorized to oversee and considers matters involving admissions and enrollment at Davis.

• Affirmative Action & Diversity   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This committee advises the administration concerning affirmative action policies for academic personnel and academic programs. This committee also monitors all aspects of the EOP and SAA, with special attention to the problems of admission and retention of culturally and economically disadvantaged students. The committee also seeks means of enhancing faculty and student awareness and participation in both the EOP and SAA.

• CAP Appellate Committee   (Members/Bylaw)
  CAP Appellate Committee reviews appeals of CAP-Oversight recommendations to the Vice Provost-Academic Personnel.

• CAP Oversight Committee   (Members/Bylaw)
  CAP Oversight Committee reviews all personnel actions for Academic Senate faculty (appointment, promotion, merit). Conducts post review of actions re-delegated to the college/professional school Deans and offers suggestions, observations and comments.

• College Committee: College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences   (Members/Meetings)
  

• Committee on Committees   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  Committees on Committees

• Courses of Instruction   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee is authorized to formally approve new courses, desirable modifications of existing courses, prerequisites for major subjects, General Education and numerous other matters germane to courses of instruction. This committee also advises the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs in the scope, timing of publication, format and other aspects of the Davis campus General Catalog that pertain to its effectiveness as an information medium and guide to academic counseling.

• Distinguished Teaching Awards   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee periodically reviews and revises the criteria for the Distinguished Teaching Award, and each year it selects a maximum of six members of the faculty to receive Faculty Teaching Awards.

• Elections, Rules & Jurisdiction   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This committee provides informal Advice and issues formal Legislative Rulings interpreting Senate legislation when questions or conflicts arise; it reviews all proposed changes to Senate legislation; and it supervises the elections of the Division.

• Emeriti   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This committee maintains current centralized records of emeriti/ae, maintains communication with emeriti/ae to facilitate their continued contributions to the University and to make known to the Academic Senate and the administration their interests and needs.

• Executive Council   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  Executive Council



• Council of School & College Faculty Chairs (Members)
  Council of each school/college faculty executive committee chair to review a myriad of Academic Senate issues from the professional school or college level.



• Executive Council Speaker Series (Members)
  To develop a speakers series addressing current issues affecting higher education.



• Executive Council Special Committee on Athletics (Members)
  Special Committee appointed to review the state of athletics at UC Davis and report to the Executive Council by February 1, 2012.



• Executive Council Subcommittee on the 2020 Initiative (Members)
  Subcommittee of the Executive Council charged with tracking and coordinating matters associated with the UC Davis 2020 Initiative



• Student Petitions Subcommittee (Members)
  Subcommittee to review student petitions on behalf of Executive Council

• Executive Council Special Committee on the November 18th Incident   (Members)
  The Special Committee will investigate the events that led to the use of force against protesters on November 18, look into the policies that allowed this to happen, and make recommendations for changes. They will have about 30 instructional days to make their report to the Executive Council. This group will include non AS members from the ASUCD, GSA, Staff Assembly and Federation.

• Faculty Privilege and Academic Personnel Advisers   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee advises members with respect to the personnel process and procedures for appeal of personnel actions. Discuss with any aggrieved Senate member any claim of violation or rights or privileges and provide counsel on appropriate grievance procedure.

• Faculty Research Lecturer   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee nominates to the Representative Assembly a faculty or staff member that has a distinguished record in research deserving of this honor.

• Faculty Welfare   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee reviews and considers the economic welfare of the faculty such as salaries, benefits, insurance, retirement, housing and conditions of employment.

• Grade Changes   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This committee advises on matters of grade change policy and it adjudicates grade change requests that are not unambiguously justified by the Regulations of the Academic Senate.

• Graduate Council   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This council makes recommendations concerning new programs leading to existing graduate degrees, and the qualifications of departments and graduate groups for initiating new programs leading to existing graduate degrees and numerous other matters germane to graduate affairs.



• GC Academic Planning and Development (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  The subcommittee advises on matters related to the future needs and directions in graduate education; campus and systemwide policy; degree conferral, enrollment, and fundraising procedures; reports and recommendations on graduate work, and postdoctoral issues.



• GC Administrative Comm (Members)
  



• GC Bylaws (Members)
  



• GC Courses (Members/Bylaw)
  The subcommittee advises on the recommendation and supervision of all new, changed or deleted graduate courses of instruction, and serves as the liaison with the Davis Divisional Academic Senate Committee on Courses of Instruction.



• GC Educational Policy (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  The subcommittee advises on the review and evaluation of all new graduate program proposals and degree requirement changes, and reviews student status and dissertation information.



• GC Graduate Student Support (Members/Bylaw)
  The Support Committee reviews and provides advice to the Graduate Dean and Graduate Council on the allocation of block grants funds, and awards fellowships and graduate scholarships, including honorary travel fellowships and other designated fellowships in accordance with the terms of the donors of the fellowship funds.



• GC Program Review (Members/Bylaw)
  The subcommittee advises on the review of graduate programs and DE’s and develop program review procedures.



• Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Welfare (Members)
  The Welfare Committee shall advise the Graduate Council on the establishment of standards for appointment of graduate students to be Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Postdoctoral Scholars; establishment of standards or policies for the limitation of study lists of students who are employed; and establishment of standards or policies related to the welfare and mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.



• Program Review Closure Committee (Members)
  

• Information Technology   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee reviews of all campus computing systems existing or proposed on behalf of the faculty.

• International Education   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee represents the Davis Division in all matters connected with international education including the Education Abroad Program.

• Library   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee advises the Davis Division regarding the administration of the UCD libraries. This committee also formulates policies and procedures for the identification of items to be removed from the Shields and Physical Sciences libraries.

• Officers   (Members)
  Listing of Davis Division officers

• P&T Hearings   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee organizes and conducts all UC Davis Privilege and Tenure Hearings and recommends action to the Chancellor.

• P&T Investigative   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee investigates grievances submitted to Privilege and Tenure and makes recommendations to the grievant, administration and Hearings Subcommittee.

• Planning & Budget   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This committee confers with and advises the Davis Division, Chief and Campus Officers regarding policy on academic planning, budget and resource allocations.



• Instructional Space Advisory Group (Members/Bylaw)
  This subcommittee reviews classroom scheduling and utilization policies to ensure the efficient use of classroom space, advises on campus needs for new instructional space and on needs for improvements and upgrades to existing instructional space, consults with faculty to identify the needs for instructional technology in classrooms, and establishes design criteria for instructional space based on an understanding of the arrangements.

• Public Service   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee advises the administration on various matters related to the involvement of faculty in public service activities. This committee also selects up to four members of the faculty to receive the Distinguished Public Service Award.

• Representative Assembly   (Members/Meetings)
  

• Research   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  The committee advises the Division and administration concerning research policy and develops/manages the Davis Division grant programs.

• Systemwide Divisional Representatives   (Members/Meetings)
  

• Undergraduate Council   (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This council considers all matters pertaining to undergraduate education, establishes criteria for use in reviewing the quality of undergraduate teaching programs, and exercises authority over all undergraduate academic transcript notations.



• General Education (Members/Bylaw/Meetings)
  This Committee supervises the General Education Program.



• Preparatory Education (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee reviews remedial education, supervises the Subject A examination and the English A course, and placement examinations in mathematics.



• Special Academic Programs (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee oversees all special undergraduate academic programs and periodically reviews all programmatic functions of these special programs.



• Undergraduate Instruction & Program Review (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee conducts continuous study of all problems concerning improvement in both the effectiveness and efficiency of instruction on the campus, aids departments in strengthening their efforts to foster, recognize and reward good teaching, and consults with departments as to the form and use of any methods designed to evaluate faculty teaching performance, and to recommend how such methods should be used in evaluation of faculty.

• Undergraduate Scholarships, Honors & Prizes   (Members/Bylaw)
  This committee recommends to the President the awarding of undergraduate scholarships. This committee's work is concentrated in winter quarter each year.