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ACADEMIC SENATE COMMITTEES

Academic Freedom and Responsibility: 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.

Academic Personnel Oversight Committee: This committee makes recommendations to the Chief Campus Officer regarding appointments, promotions, merit increases, appraisals, and terminations.

Academic Personnel Appellate Committee: This committee provides advice independent of the Oversight Subcommittee to the Chief Campus Officer on any review of a personnel action beyond the original review conducted by the Oversight Subcommittee or the Faculty Personnel Committee.

Admissions and Enrollment: This committee considers matters involving admissions and enrollment at Davis.

Affirmative Action and Diversity: This committee advises the administration on 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.

Campus Council for Information Technology : The Campus Council for Information Technology provides advice and recommendations to the Provost and the Vice Provost for Information and Educational Technology (IET), on educational and information technology and its use at UC Davis in support of instruction, research, administration, and public service. The Council may also recommend its own proposals and plans. The Council's broad representation will assist the campus administration in assuring that campus resources are deployed to their most strategic advantage.

Courses of Instruction: This committee advises departments on the formal approvals of new courses, desirable modifications of existing courses, prerequisites for major subjects, 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. This committee also approves courses for General Education.

Distinguished Teaching Awards: 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, and Jurisdictions: This committee prepares and reports for action by the Representative Assembly such changes and additions to the By-Laws and Regulations as it deems advisable; advises the Division, its officers, committees, faculties, and members in all matters of organization, jurisdiction, and interpretation of legislation of the Academic Senate and its agencies; supervises all elections of the Davis Division.

Emeriti/ae: 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.

Faculty Privilege & Academic Personnel Advisers: This committee advises members of the Faculty with respect to the personnel process and procedures for appeal of personnel actions. Discusses with any aggrieved Senate member any claim of violation, right, or privilege and provides counsel on appropriate grievance procedures.

Faculty Welfare: This committee reviews and considers matters concerned with the economic welfare of the faculty such as salaries, benefits, insurance, retirement, housing and conditions of employment.

Grade Changes: This committee advises the registrar 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: 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.

Graduate Student Privilege Adviser: The individual appointed to this position advises graduate students with respect to their rights and privileges, grievance procedures, and resources available to assist them in responding to disputes involving academic and student employment matters not subject to collective bargaining.

International Studies and Exchanges: This committee represents the Davis Division in all matters connected with the Education Abroad Program.

Library: This committee advises the Chancellor 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.

Planning and Budget Committee (P&B): This committee confers with and advises the Chief Campus Officer and Divisional administrative agencies regarding policy on academic planning, budget and resource allocations.

Instructional Space Advisory Group (Subcommittee of P&B): This subcommittee reviews enrollment plans and use them to develop appropriate instructional space plans for the campus

Privilege and Tenure (P&T): This committee takes cognizance of all matters affecting the privilege or the tenure of all officers of instruction or of equivalent academic rank.

P&T Investigative Subcommittee : This subcommittee reviews grievances of faculty who believes their rights or privileges have been violated.

P&T Hearings Subcommittee: This subcommittee conducts hearings for grievance and disciplinary proceedings of faculty members.

Public Service: 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.

Research Grant: This committee advises the Chief Campus Officer and the Dean of the Graduate Division concerning (a) the budgetary needs for support of research and (b) the acceptance of extramural subsidies. The committee considers applications for research grants and for travel expenses for the purpose of attending meetings of learned societies.

Research Policy: This committee consults with the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Chief Campus Officer concerning faculty perspectives on the research mission of the Division and the University; budgetary needs to support research infrastructure; policy and strategy regarding pursuit and acceptance of research support. The committee formulates policy governing acceptance of extramural funding, provides periodic evaluation of administrative units that support faculty research, provides review of Organized Research Units; maintains liaison with relevant Senate committees; establishes policies and procedures governing allocation of funds with the jurisdiction of the Faculty Grants committee; provides review of applications from various calls for research proposals that are associated with the Limited Submission Program.

Student Faculty Relationships: This committee considers student-faculty relation matters and acts in an advisory capacity.

Transportation & Parking: This committee examines Administrative policies, funding, and management of transportation, parking and related services on the Davis campus. It examines the impact of all new campus construction on transportation, parking, and related service issues.

Undergraduate Council : 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: This Committee supervises the General Education Program.

Preparatory Education: This committee reviews remedial education, supervises the Subject A examination and the English A course, and placement examinations in mathematics.

Special Academic Programs : This committee oversees all special undergraduate academic programs and periodically reviews all programmatic functions of these special programs.

Undergraduate Instruction & Program Review: 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 and Prizes This committee recommends to the President the awarding of undergraduate scholarships.

Academic Senate Member Postions on Academic Federation Committees:

Academic Federation Administrative Series Personnel: This committee advises the Chancellor on academic personnel actions for members of the Academic Administrator Series, Academic Coordinator Series, and Associate University Librarian Series. One Academic Senate member is needed.

Joint Federation/Senate Personnel: This committee advises the Chancellor on academic personnel actions for non-Senate academic appointees whose positions include a designated research component. This committee is analogous and parallel to the Academic Personnel Committee. Two Academic Senate members are needed.

Academic Federation Award for Excellence in Teaching: One Academic Senate member is needed to select recipients for outstanding excellence in teaching.

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