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]: Asst. Dean Exp Prog & Prof Affairs
Academic Support Committee [Requires divisional representation]
[Responsibilities from the former Educational Technology Committee
- Evaluate and implement mechanisms to improve education through technology enhancement.
- New: Monitor the quality of distance education and make recommendations for changes in policy and/or infrastructure for improvement.
[Responsibilities from the former Library Services Committee
- 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.
Admissions Committee [Requires divisional 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 on-site written essay, and serve as substitute interviewers as needed.
- Make policy recommendations to the Dean regarding admissions.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Asst. Dean Admissions; Academic Advisor
Continuing Education Committee [Does not require divisional 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 need to be made available.
- Discuss and recommend improved methods for offering CE programs to reach the intended audiences.
- Assist in assuring maximum efficacy in specific program planning activities.
- Serve as reviewers for new CE programs under development.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Director of Continuing Education
Cultural Proficiency Committee [Requires divisional 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]: None
Curriculum Committee [Requires divisional representation]
- 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 substantive curricular changes to the faculty for faculty vote.
- Professional Colloquium 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 Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs; Asst. Dean Exp Prog & Prof Affairs
Departmental Review on Human Research Committee [Representation from divisions conducting human research]
- 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]: None
Executive Committee [Elected]
- Make recommendations to the University Administration regarding promotion and tenure of individual faculty candidates.
- Make recommendations to the Dean regarding annual merit raises for junior faculty based upon the immediate past and proposed faculty workload (development) plan formulated in consultation with the Division Head.
- Evaluate junior faculty members' progress during their third-year review.
- Standing Subcommittee: Post-tenure review and recommendations regarding tenured faculty.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: None
Faculty Development Committee [Requires divisional 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.
- New: develop and maintain processes and documentation for comprehensive orientation of new faculty (including those not on the Austin campus).
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Assoc. Dean Grad Studies & Research; Assistant to the Dean (HR)
Faculty-Staff Committee
- foster positive faculty-staff relationships
- assist in resolving possible conflicts or disagreements between faculty and staff
- recommend joint activities between the two groups, such as retreats
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
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]: Asst. Dean Exp Prog & Prof Affairs; Asst. Dean Development
Graduate Studies Administrative Sub-Committee [Responsibilities will move to Divisional Graduate Advisors Group who will now make up this Sub-Committee of the GSC]
- Meet with each masters and PhD candidate, review their coursework (for compliance with Divisional, College, and University requirements) , and makes recommendations to the Graduate School regarding advancement to candidacy.
- Review proposed graduate programs and modifications to existing programs and make recommendations to the full GSC regarding these programs.
- New: Develop processes and procedures to continually assess the quality of our graduate programs and make recommendations to the full GSC for program improvements.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Assoc. Dean Grad Studies & Research; Graduate Coordinator
Honors and Awards Committee [Requires divisional 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]
- 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.
- New: Coordinate development of new tracks, academic certificate programs, and dual degree structures associated with the professional (Pharm.D.) for College approval.
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs; Assoc. Dean Research & Grad Studies
Pharmacy Residencies Committee [Does not require divisional 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
Post-Graduate Teaching Credentials Committee [Requires divisional representation]
[Responsibilities from the former TA Selection Committee]
- Determine graduate TA needs for academic support of the professional program.
- Develop mechanisms to match graduate student and upper-level professional student expertise with the College's curricular needs.
- Determine graduate TA assignments for the college.
- 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
- New: Develop guidelines, review assignments, and assess the performance and impact of academic assistants and tutors on the professional program.
- New: develop guidelines for and monitoring the utilization of postdocs, residents, fellows, and external (ad hoc) teaching within our professional (Pharm.D.) program.
- New: develop conflict of interest statement for external participants teaching in our professional (Pharm.D.) program. [Will be handled administratively]
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs, Assoc. Dean for Research & Graduate Studies; Graduate Coordinator
Program Assessment Team [Requires divisional representation]
- Continuous monitoring and assessment of the professional (PharmD) program for the purpose of ongoing quality improvement and student learning enhancement.
- Facilitate Self-Study committees in their assessment of compliance with ACPE accreditation standards.
- New: Develop and implement assessment plans to meet SACS accreditation requirements.
- New: Continuous monitoring and assessment of the graduate (MS/PhD) program for the purpose of ongoing quality improvement.
- New: Overall assessment of all College programs to assure alignment with the strategic plan (including outreach, CE, etc).
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Sr. Assoc. Dean Academic Affairs; Program Assessment Coordinator; Dean's Office Senior Systems Analyst.
Public Affairs Committee [Does not require divisional representation]
- Periodic review of all outreach materials to the constituents of The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy including publications, media interviews, recruiting materials and web interfaces.
- developing a coordinated message for such outreach.
- New: Monitor content, format, timeliness, and consistency of message for the College website [stronger role than first bullet].
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Asst. Dean Development; Publications Editor, Communications Coordinator (with UT)
Research Infrastructure and Lab Safety Committee [Representation from lab-based divisions]
[Responsibilities from the former Chemical, Radiological, & Biohazard Safety Committee
- 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.
- New: 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).
- New: 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)..
Administrative Liaison(s) [ex officio]: Assoc. Dean Research & Grad Studies; Assistant to the Dean; Grants Specialist
Region Assignment Appeals Committee [Does not require divisional 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
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)
Last Reviewed: December 15, 2008
