FUNCTION: To advise the president on matters relating to the
research mission of the University and relationship between the
research mission and other components of the University's overall
mission. To provide for wider dissemination of information concerning
the research mission of the University and how that mission is
being discharged.
COMPOSITION: Nine members of the General Faculty and two students.
Student members shall be appointed by the president in the fall
from a panel of names submitted by the appropriate student committee.
In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall
appoint two members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms as
members of the committee. No more than two faculty members of the
committee shall be from a given college or school. At least one
of the student members of the committee shall be a graduate student
enrolled in one of the Ph.D. programs of the graduate school. The
committee shall elect its own chair and vice chair, both of whom
shall be members of the General Faculty. Both the vice president
for research and the vice president and dean of Graduate Studies
shall serve as administrative advisors to the committee without
vote.
