Faculty & Staff
Brief Description of Standing Committees
UT College of Pharmacy
Academic Performance Committee [Requires divisional representation]
- Review all professional student appeals regarding dismissal from the College and/or
the University and make recommendations to the Dean regarding continuation or
termination.
- Make policy recommendations to the Dean regarding academic performance and
progression.
- Counsel students appearing before the Committee and assign faculty counselors to
those students.
- Periodically advises students who are in poor academic standing but not yet subject to
dismissal [retained as an ongoing Committee responsibility, but executed through the
Academic Advisors utilizing a College-wide pool of faculty who are willing to serve
as counselors]
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: An Assistant or Associate Dean
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Academic Support Committee [[Requires divisional representation and student
representation]
- Evaluate and implement mechanisms to improve education through technology enhancement.
- Monitor the quality of distance education and make recommendations for changes in policy and/or infrastructure for improvement.
- Work with the head librarian of the Life Science Library on collection development and library service issues related to the academic, clinical service, and research missions of the College of Pharmacy.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs; Director of
LRC; Head of Life Sciences Library.
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Admissions Committee [Requires divisional representation, Pharm.D. student
representation, and practitioner representation]
- Review applicant files during the spring semester and recommend to the Dean
acceptance, rejection, or provisional admission for each applicant.
- Assist the Assistant Dean for Admissions in designing application materials,
evaluating the written essay, and serve as substitute interviewers as needed.
- Make recommendations to the Dean regarding admissions policies and procedures.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Asst. Dean Admissions; Academic Advisor
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
College-Wide Emergency Preparedness Committee [Requires divisional
representation; requires staff, Pharm.D. and graduate student membership]
- Coordinate execution of the College’s commitment to the University/City/County
Memorandum of Understanding for Emergency Response when activated.
- Develop and evaluate policies and procedures for the College’s local response to
emergencies (fire, weather, etc).
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: An Assistant or Associate Dean and the Chief of Staff
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Continuing Education Committee [Does not require divisional representation.
Requires practitioner representation]
- Assist the Director of Continuing Education regarding appropriate programming to be
offered by the College in the future.
- Discuss and recommend new content areas for which educational programs should be
made available.
- Discuss and recommend improved methods for offering CE programs to reach the
intended audiences.
- Assist in the program assessment of the College’s continuing education programs
- Serve as reviewers for new CE programs under development.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Director of Continuing Education; Associate Dean
for Clinical Programs
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Cultural Proficiency Committee [Requires divisional representation and Pharm.D.
and graduate student representation]
- Interface with standing College committees, the Office of Student Professional
Affairs and Academic Services, and the larger University community to identify and
implement strategies that can sustain progress toward the College attaining cultural
proficiency.
- Identify and implement those strategies that are not within the purview of existing
College committees
- Develop a continuous quality improvement plan for monitoring implemented
strategies.
- Recommend strategies for disseminating information about cultural competency
issues to faculty, students, staff and the broader community.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: An Assistant or Associate Dean
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Curriculum Committee [Requires divisional representation, Cooperative Pharmacy
Program representation, Pharm.D. student representation, a recent UTCOP graduate
representative and a practitioner representative]
- Continuous monitoring and revision of the professional curriculum, including the
implementation of curriculum changes, and the review of all professional courses on
a routine (cycling) basis.
- Review proposals for new courses, course deletions, and changes in sequence.
- Report all proposals for all substantive curricular changes to the faculty for
approval.
Professional Development Convocation Sub-Committee. Includes membership from
within and outside the Curriculum Committee. Coordinates the development and
execution of the new PharmD Colloquium that extends across all semesters of the new
curriculum. (professional development, ePortfolios, careers, etc.).
Administrative Faculty Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs; Asst.
Dean Exp Prog & Prof Affairs, Director of Assessment.
Responsibility: Advisory to the faculty.
Membership and Voting:
- Division representation is defined as one member and one alternate member per
division/cooperative program. If the member is not present at a meeting, only then
may the alternate member cast a vote on any matter.
- The administrative faculty liaisons are voting members.
- Student representation is defined as one appointed member and one alternate
member for each of the P1, P2 and P3 classes. The most senior student member
attending the meeting shall cast the single vote of the students.
- The recent UTCOP graduate and the practitioner representatives are full voting
members.
Voting Procedures:
- “Substantive curricular changes” are defined as any changes involving
addition/deletion of courses, sequence of courses, or numbers of credit hours
associated with required Pharm.D. curriculum courses, the pre-pharmacy course
requirements, or in the requirements for graduation in the Doctor of Pharmacydegree program (e.g., curricular programmatic requirements not associated with
specific courses).
- Written proposals for substantive curricular changes must be distributed to the
Faculty at least 5 working days prior to the Curriculum Committee meeting for their
review and comment through their divisional representatives.
- Any substantive curricular change approved by the Curriculum Committee will be
submitted to the faculty for approval on a no-protest basis. The curricular change
will be considered approved unless, within 10 working days, protests have been
received by the chair of the committee from at least 10 voting members of the
Faculty or >50% of the voting faculty from a single division or Cooperative
Program campus. If sufficient protests are received, the item will be presented to the
Faculty at the next general faculty meeting for discussion. If desired, a motion to
reconsider can be made at that time and, if approved, the matter referred back to the
curriculum committee for reconsideration.
- The Committee has autonomy in all other matters (based on divisional
representation and input), such as approving elective course syllabi, review of
courses, changes in course content for existing courses, etc.).
Departmental Review on Human Research Committee [Representation from
divisions conducting human research; graduate student representation]
- Review and critique any investigation protocols developed within the college that
involve the use of humans in experiments. Recommendations are forwarded to the
University Institutional Review Board. At least three members of this committee
should be involved in research activities using human subjects.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Assoc Dean for Graduate Studies & Research
Responsibility: Committee approval required before human research protocols will be
considered by the University Institutional Review Board for Human Research.
Faculty Development Committee [Requiresdivisional representation]
- Design and implement methods for the career development of faculty, particularly junior faculty. Scope includes tenure-track and non-tenure track (clinical and research) faculty.
- Develop and maintain processes and documentation for comprehensive orientation of new faculty (including those not on the Austin campus).
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: An Assistant or Associate Dean; Assistant to the
Dean (HR)
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Financial Aid Committee (Graduate Student) [Requires divisional representation]
- Review graduate student scholarship applications and make awards to selected students.
- Determine criteria for awarding scholarships and tuition waivers for graduate students.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Asst. Dean Development; Graduate Coordinator
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Financial Aid Committee (Professional Student) [Requires divisional representation]
- Review professional pharmacy student applications for financial aid.
- Award available scholarships and tuition waiver(s).
- Make policy recommendations to the Dean regarding professional student financial aid.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: An Assistant or Associate Dean; Asst. Dean
Development
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Honors and Awards Committee [Requiresdivisional representation]
- Through evaluation of academic and extracurricular activity records and nominations, determine recipients of College and University academic, honorary, and service honors and awards
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Asst. Dean Student Affairs
Honors Program/PharmD PhD Oversight Committee [Requires divisional
representation and Pharm.D. honors student representation]
- Recommend to the Dean the admission standards and advising and administrative
procedures for students pursuing the College's honors program.
- Recommend to the Curriculum Committee programs of study for honors students in
the areas of pharmacy practice, advanced clinical practice, and the basic
pharmaceutical sciences.
- Monitor the PharmD/PhD program in order to maintain the quality of the program
and to modify the program as necessary.
Sr. Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs; Assoc. Dean Research & Grad Studies
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Pharmacy Residencies Committee [Does not require divisional representation.
Requires residency preceptor and program director representation]
- Review and revise the description of the Pharmacy residency programs, goals and
objectives, quality management guidelines and residency performance measures.
- Review and update standards for the College of Pharmacy collaborative residency
programs using as a reference, accreditation standards and guidelines and other
documents adopted by national professional organizations.
- Develop guidelines that can be used by academic institutions and health care
organizations to establish cooperative training programs with the College of
Pharmacy.
- Assist in the development of new residency programs throughout the state that
access funds available from federal and state sources.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Assoc. Dean Clinical Programs
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Teaching Assistant (TA) Credentials and Assignment Committee [Consists of each
of the division Graduate Advisors, the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate
Studies (serves as chair), and the Senior Associate Dean. The Graduate Coordinator
will serve as an ex officio member.]
- Determine graduate TA needs for academic support of the professional program.
- Develop mechanisms to match graduate student expertise with the College's
curricular needs.
- Formulate the TA budget request to the Dean based on the teaching needs of the
College.
- Assess the performance of the TAs, with the authority (following due process) to
dismiss or reassign TA's who are not performing at an acceptable level
TA Selection Sub-Committee [Consists of the Associate Dean for Research and
Graduate Studies, the Senior Associate Dean, the Associate Dean for Clinical
Programs, and a faculty member from each division. The Graduate Coordinator will
serve as an ex officio member.]
- Makes recommendations to the dean specific TA teaching assignments for a given
semester.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs, Assoc. Dean
for Research & Graduate Studies; Graduate Coordinator
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Program Assessment Team [Requires divisional representation and requires
Pharm.D. and graduate student representation]
- Overall assessment of all College programs to assure alignment with the strategic
plan (including outreach, CE, etc).
- Continuous monitoring and assessment of the professional (PharmD) program for the
purpose of ongoing quality improvement and student learning enhancement.
- Continuous monitoring and assessment of the graduate (MS/PhD) program for the
purpose of ongoing quality improvement.
- Facilitate Self-Study committees in their assessment of compliance with ACPE
accreditation standards.
- Develop and implement assessment plans to meet SACS accreditation requirements.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs; Director of
Assessment
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Research Infrastructure and Lab Safety Committee [Representation from lab-based
divisions and graduate student representation]
- Coordinate the provision of safety information with the University Safety Office.
- Coordinate routine formal presentation from the safety office for graduate students
concerning university safety policies and procedures.
- Review University and College policies, and assure compliance with all requirements
related to laboratory safety (incident reports, student training & renewal, etc).
- Provide representation (via Chair or a member of the committee) to the Institutional
Biosafety Committee (coordinated through the Office of the Vice President for
Research).
- Work with the Dean's Office to develop policies and procedures for College-based
responses to emergencies in terms of laboratory preparedness (securing, shut-down,
re-entry, etc).
- Assure compliance with laboratory safety requirements for all researchers (faculty,
staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students).
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Assoc. Dean Research & Grad Studies; Assistant to
the Dean; Grants Specialist
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Region Assignment Appeals Committee [Does not require divisional representation.
Requires Pharm.D. student representation]
- Review region re-assignment requests (appeals) from students with compelling justification based on extenuating circumstances.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Asst. Dean Experiential Programs
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Staff Development and Awards Committee [Requires divisional representation, including staff]
- Determine criteria for College staff awards.
- Make recommendations to the Dean regarding the process(es) to be used for selection of staff awards.
- Communication of professional development opportunities to staff (e.g. classes, workshops).
- Communication of University staff issues [UT Staff Council Representative should serve ex officio].
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Assistant to the Dean (Chief of Staff)
Responsibility: Advisory to the Dean
Last Reviewed:September 15, 2010
