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DOCUMENTS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE
FACULTY COUNCIL OFFICERS FOR 2001-2002
Bruce P. Palka (mathematics), chair of the Committee to
Nominate Faculty Council Officers for 2001-2002, has filed with the secretary
of the Faculty Council the report set forth below.
Notice is hereby given that this report will be presented
to the 2001-2002 Faculty Council for action at its special meeting on
May 7, 2001. At that meeting, additional nominations may be made from
the floor.
<signed>
John R. Durbin, Secretary
The Faculty Council
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE
FACULTY COUNCIL OFFICERS FOR 2001-2002
The Committee to Nominate Faculty Council Officers for
2001-2002 (Bruce P. Palka, chair) nominates the persons whose names are
set forth below.
NOMINEES FOR CHAIR ELECT
Michael H. Granof, professor, accounting
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, associate professor, English
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NOMINEES FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS FROM GENERAL FACULTY STANDING
COMMITTEES
From the Faculty Advisory Committee on Budgets:
Neal E. Armstrong, professor, civil engineering
Thomas G. Palaima, professor, classics
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From the Faculty Welfare Committee:
Mark I. Alpert, professor, marketing administration
Sharon D. Horner, associate professor, nursing
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From the Educational Policy Committee:
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, professor, classics
Michael P. Starbird, professor, mathematics
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The duties of these officers are specified below.
CHAIR ELECT:
Each year the voting members of the Faculty Council
shall elect a chair elect from the elected faculty members who shall serve
in that capacity for one year. At the end of the year the chair elect
shall become chair; if his or her term on the Council would otherwise
end, the chair shall be an ex officio member (with the normal voting
rights of the chair) for that year. The chair shall preside over the Council.
The chair elect shall serve as vice chair if necessary. The chair (or
the chair elect in the absence of the chair) shall be a voting member
of the Graduate Assembly and shall be a member of its agenda-setting group.
If either the chair or the chair elect should cease to be a member of
the Faculty Council, the Council shall promptly elect a successor.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
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Composition: The chair and chair elect
of the Faculty Council; the secretary of the Faculty Council; one
Faculty Council member (elected by the voting members of the Faculty
Council) from each of the following standing committees: Faculty Advisory
Committee on Budgets, Educational Policy Committee, and Faculty Welfare
Committee; and the chair (or the chair elect in the absence of the
chair) of the Graduate Assembly. Their term of service, commencing
on the first class day of the fall semester, shall be for one year,
with the proviso that some continuity of service from one year to
the next is desirable.
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Function: To facilitate the work of the
Faculty Council and to see that the Council has the benefit of the
work done by the standing committees and by the special committees
of the Faculty Council; to plan the Council's agenda and other related
activities; and to meet at least monthly with the President and his
or her designated representatives in order to discuss and advise on
educational, institutional, and faculty matters. |
Posted on the Faculty Council web site (http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/)
on May 3, 2001. Paper copies are available on request from the Faculty Council
Office, FAC 22, F9500.
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