Brief Description of Standing Committees
UT College of Pharmacy

Academic Performance Committee
This committee meets between semesters to review all professional student appeals regarding dismissal from the College and/or the University. It also periodically advises students who are in poor academic standing but not yet subject to dismissal. It also makes policy recommendations to the Dean regarding academic progression.

Admissions Committee
This committee reviews applicant files during the spring semester and then recommends acceptance, rejection, or provisional admission for each applicant. The members also assist the Assistant Dean for Admissions in designing application materials, evaluating the on-site written essay, and serve as substitute interviewers as needed.

Chemical, Radiological, & Biohazard Safety Committee
This committee coordinates the provision of safety information with the University Safety Office. They facilitate a formal presentation from the safety office for graduate students concerning university safety policies and procedures. The Chair or a member of the committee should also be assigned to the Institutional Biosafety Committee (coordinated through the Office of the Vice President for Research).

Committee on Committees
This committee polls the faculty for their preferences in serving on committees; recommends membership composition for College committees and, as necessary, recommends the formation of new committees and the deletion of committees which are no longer useful. The Dean appoints the Chair and members of this committee.

Continuing Education Committee
This committee assists the Director of Continuing Education regarding appropriate programming to be offered by the College in the future. Members of the committee discuss and recommend new content areas for which educational programs need to be made available in the future as well as improved methods for offering CE programs to reach the intended audiences. Additionally, the committee assists in assuring maximum efficacy in specific program planning activities and members may be asked to serve as reviewers for new CE programs under development.

Curriculum Committee
This committee is responsible for the continual monitoring and revision of the professional curriculum. It reviews proposals for new courses, course deletions, and changes in sequence, and reports to the faculty.

Cultural Proficiency Committee
This committee will review the Cultural Proficiency Assessment report, interface with standing College committees (e.g., Strategic Planning, Faculty Development, Faculty-Staff, Program Assessment Team, Curriculum, Continuing Education) as well as the Office of Student Professional Affairs and Academic Services in order to identify and implement strategies that can sustain progress toward cultural proficiency. The committee will also identify and implement strategies that are not within the purview of existing College committees and develop a continuous quality improvement plan for each strategy. The committee will also interface with the Program Assessment Team to incorporate questions in the annual assessment surveys. Finally, the committee will recommend strategies for disseminating information about cultural competence issues to faculty, students, staff and the broader community.

Departmental Review on Human Research Committee
This committee reviews and critiques any investigation protocols developed within the college that involve the use of humans in experiments. Its 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.

Educational Technology Committee
The purpose of this committee is to devise and implement ways to improve the delivery of education through computer utilization and distance learning.

Equipment Committee
This committee solicits recommendations on equipment purchases from each Division, and based on available funds, makes prioritized recommendations to the Dean regarding purchases to be made.

Executive Committee
The committee is elected by the faculty and makes decisions regarding promotion, tenure, and merit raises, and discusses faculty members' progress during their third-year review. A subcommittee of the EC also makes decisions on post-tenure review of tenured faculty.

Faculty Awards & Development Committee
This committee designs and implements methods for the career development of faculty, particularly junior faculty. The committee also recommends qualified faculty for major teaching and research awards as they come to the attention of the committee.

Faculty-Staff Committee
This committee exists to foster positive faculty-staff relationships and to assist in resolving possible conflicts or disagreements between faculty and staff. It also may recommend joint activities between the two groups, such as retreats, if appropriate.

Financial Aid Committee (Professional Student)
This committee meets once per year to review professional pharmacy student applications for financial aid and to award available scholarships and tuition waiver(s). The committee also makes related policy recommendations to the Dean.

Financial Aid Committee (Graduate Student)
This committee reviews scholarship applications and determines criteria for awarding scholarships and tuition waivers to graduate students.

Graduate Studies Administrative Subcommittee
This committee meets with each masters and PhD candidate, reviews their coursework, and makes recommendations regarding advancement to candidacy. The committee also reviews proposed graduate programs and makes recommendations to the full GSC regarding these programs. The members are recommended by the GSC to the Dean (coordinated by the Chair of the GSC).

Honors and Awards Committee
This committee determines, through evaluation of academic and extracurricular activity records and nominations, recipients of College and University academic, honorary, and service honors and awards for Professional Pharmacy Students.

Honors Program Committee
This committee, in order to encourage scholarship among talented professional students, recommends to the Dean the admission standards and advising and administrative procedures for students pursuing the College’s honors program; recommends to the Curriculum Committee curricula for honors students in the areas of pharmacy practice, advanced clinical practice, and research.

Internship Region Assignment
This committee reviews region assignment requests from students who have an outstanding and significant need based on extenuating circumstances.

Library Services Committee
The Library Services Committee works 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.

PharmD/PhD Oversight Committee
This committee will monitor the PharmD/PhD program in order to maintain the quality of the program and to modify the program as necessary. The committee is a subcommittee of the GSC. The members are recommended by the GSC to the Dean (coordinated by the Chair of the GSC).

Post PharmD Residency Committee
This committee reviews and revises the description of the post PharmD training program, goals and objectives, quality assurance guidelines and residency performance measures. It also reviews and updates standards for UT residency and fellowship training programs using as a reference, accreditation standards and guidelines and other documents adopted by national professional organizations. It develops guidelines that can be used by academic institutions and training sites to establish cooperative training programs. It assists in the development of new residency programs throughout the state that access funds available from federal and state sources.

Program Assessment Team
The function of the Program Assessment Team is (1) the continual monitoring and assessment of the professional (PharmD) program for the purpose of ongoing quality improvement and student learning enhancement, and (2) to facilitate Self-Study committees in their assessment of compliance with ACPE accreditation standards.

Space Committee
This committee advises the Dean in matters related to the assignment of office and research space and renovations in College facilities.

Teaching Assistant Selection Committee
This committee formulates the TA budget request to the Dean and determines graduate teaching assistant assignments for the college. This committee is also responsible for measuring and monitoring the performance of the TAs, and for developing instruments and processes to better match the student expertise with the College’s curricular needs. The TA committee also has the authority (following due process) to dismiss TA’s who are not performing at an acceptable level.