TYPE C: INSTITUTIONAL POLICY OR GOVERNANCE
C-4 Educational Policy Committee Chair: William Beckner Vice Chair: Shelley Payne Chair Elect: TBD in spring 2011. Minutes (PDF): To be posted following first meeting. Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited) Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited) 2009-10 Annual Report
FUNCTION: To study proposals on educational policy and assess their possibilities and alternatives; to present recommendations on such matters to the Faculty Council. The committee shall actively seek advice from students. COMPOSITION: Nine members of the General Faculty and four students. The four student members shall be selected by the Senate of College Councils and the Graduate Student Assembly. The Senate of College Councils will select three undergraduate students. All undergraduate members must be from different Colleges and include at least one lower-division undergraduate and one upper-division undergraduate. The Graduate Student Assembly will select one graduate student, who is or has served as an Assistant Instructor or Teaching Assistant in an undergraduate course at UT Austin. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two members of the Faculty Council, one of whom shall be elected by the voting members of the Faculty Council,1 for one-year terms as members of the committee. All other members from the General Faculty shall be appointed by the president and serve two-year staggered terms. The committee shall elect its own chair, who shall be a member of the General Faculty. The provost, the dean of Undergraduate Studies, and the director of the Measurement and Evaluation Center, representing the Center for Teaching and Learning2, and the registrar3 shall serve as administrative advisors without votes. The chair of the Student Deans' Committee and a representative of the Academic Counselors' Association, elected by the Academic Counselors' Association Officers, shall serve as consultants without votes. 1D 7788-7789 was approved by the Faculty Council on Juauary 26, 2010, and final approval received from the president on March 10, 2010. 2 Name changed from Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment on August 16, 2010. 3 D 7342 was approved by the president on January 11, 2010.
Members, 2010-11:
	Beckner, William	2009-2011	professor, mathematics
	Coleman, Renita B.	2009-2011	associate professor, journalism
	Cummings, Molly E.	2010-2012	associate professor, integrative biology
	Delgado, Cesar	2010-2012	assistant professor, curriculum and instruction
	Friedman, Alan W.	2009-2011	professor, English
	Grady, Mack	2009-2011	professor, electrical and computer engineering
	Payne, Shelley M.	2010-2012	professor, molecular genetics and microbiology
	Staiger, Janet1	2010-2012	professor radio-television-film
	Valvano, Jonathan W.	2010-2012	professor, electrical and computer engineering
	1 Randall M. Parker, professor, special educaiton, resigned from the committee in early September 2010.
Faculty Council Appointees:
	Heinzelman, Susan S.	2010-2011	professor, English
	Rose, Mary	2010-2011	associate professor, sociology
Four Students:
	Adler, Chelsea Brooke	2010-2011	Senate of College Councils representative
	Liu, David G.	2010-2011	Senate of College Councils representative
	Long, Samiel Reid	2010-2011	Graduate Student Assembly representative
	Siddiqui, Shabab Ehsan	2010-2011	Senate of College Councils representative
Administrative Advisors:
	Abraham, Lawrence D.	ex officio	associate dean, undergraduate studies
	Keller, Harrison	ex officio	vice provost and executive director, Center for Teaching and Learning
	Ritter, Gretchen	ex officio	vice provost
	Stanfield, Shelby	ex officio	associate vice president and registrar
Consultants:
	Musick, Marc A.	ex officio	chair, Student Deans' Committee, associate dean, liberal arts
	Poag, Andrea L.	ex officio	president, Academic Counselors’ Association, academic advising coordinator