FUNCTION: The Faculty Grievance Committee is authorized to hear
or otherwise dispose of individual grievances. Faculty grievance
procedures are set forth in Section 3.18 of the UT Austin Handbook
of Operating Procedures.
COMPOSITION: Consists of sixteen full-time voting members of the
General Faculty, serving two-year overlapping terms. Ten members
are elected at-large by the General Faculty, and six members are
appointed by the president through the regular procedures of the
Committee on Committees. In addition, every year the chair of the
Faculty Council shall appoint two General Faculty members of the
Faculty Council for one-year terms as members of the committee. The
total committee membership shall not include more than four faculty
members from any college or school. The committee shall elect its
own chair and vice chair, both of whom shall be members of the General
Faculty.