Past chairs' and directors' meetings have covered such topics as new course proposals, assessment of the common curriculum and Graduate Studies' soon-to-launch online application process. Read meeting minutes to learn more.

Fall 2012 Meeting Dates

Friday, September 14 - 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m

Friday, October 5 - 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Friday, October 12 - 8:30 a.m - 10:30 a.m.-- CHAIRS & DIRECTORS ONLY MEETING

Friday, October 26 - 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Friday, November 16 - 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Meeting minutes

Sept. 16, 2011

The Faculty Advisory Board maintains an important role in funding recommendations, direction and evaluation of CTL activities, and administration of the grants programs. Faculty members serve three-year terms.

AHUM:
Susan Walter, 2014

SOCS:
Christina Kreps, 2014

THERE ARE THREE SUB-COMMITTEES WITHIN THE CTL FACULTY BOARD:

Marsico Visiting Scholars Faculty Committee

AHUM:
Carl Raschke, Chair
Bill Anderson
Catherine ChauvinF
Rick Barbour
Salvador Mercado
David Montano
Rahul Nair
Selah Saterstrom

SOCS:
Christina Kreps, Chair
Bernadette Calafell
Paul Colomy
Spencer Wellhofer
Christof Demont-Heinrich
Tracy Mott
Howard Markman

Public Good Scholarship Fund Committee

This Committee revises and updates the Public Good Fund Request for Proposals, and reviews, evaluates, and makes funding decisions for DU's Public Good proposals. Committee members advocate for and support the mission and goals of public good works at DU. Faculty members serve three-year terms.

AHUM:
Sandra Dixon, 2014

SOCS:
Hava Gordon, 2013

Sustainability Minor Faculty Committee

Faculty members serve two-year terms.

AHUM:
William Philpott, 2014
Wilfried Wilms, 2013

SOCS:
David Ciepley, 2014
Andy Sharma, 2013

This board provides a means for campus-wide participation in achieving the mission of the Center for World Languages and Cultures (CWLC).

Its primary role is to help assure that the CWLC achieves its goals to enhance the quality and outcomes of language and culture education for all students at the University of Denver, support the teaching of the world's languages and cultures, and connect DU students with their greater international community—locally, nationally and abroad.

• AHSS representatives for the CWLC Advisory Board
  Victor Castellani
  Maha Foster
  Christof Heinrich-Demont
  Eleanor McNees
  Susan Walter
  Terri-Jo Woellner

The Elected Faculty Committee is composed of four faculty members from each division, as well as the dean and the associate dean. Faculty members serve three-year terms. This committee meets once or twice per quarter depending upon need. It advises the dean and will do some or all of the following:

• Help review mini-sabbatical proposals
• Review tenure/promotion policy
• Review salary increment policy
• Discuss core curriculum (aka common curriculum)
• Review proposals for new degree programs
• Recommend new divisional committees or task forcesF
• Help guide faculty deliberation about current issues
• Provide a set of eyes and ears for the dean
• Create its own agenda items

The faculty committee shall also have the responsibility for also will call a joint meeting of the faculty of the two divisions at least once a quarter (excluding summer). The agenda for these meetings will be prepared by the committee in consultation with the dean and will reflect the discussion of issues of concern to members of the committee, the faculty they represent and the dean. In recent years the scope of work has expanded to advise the dean regarding the distribution of tech fee funds, Rosenberry grants and divisional student scholarships.

AHUM:
Frederique Chevillot, Spring 2014
Annabeth Headrick, Spring 2013
Brian Kiteley, Spring 2014
Candace Upton, Spring 2014

SOCS:
Mary Serewicz, Spring 2013
Lisa Pasko, Spring 2014
Derigan Silver, Spring 2014
Lawrence Golan, Spring 2013

The Faculty Review/Salary Committee of the Faculty Senate considers, for review, investigation, evaluation, and report three kinds of complaints by faculty members:

a) Grievances respecting faculty status, working conditions, and appointments; b) Grievances respecting salary allocations, providing that a pattern of inequity extending over at least a two-year period is alleged; c) Grievances respecting reappointment, promotion, tenure or dismissal, if the Provost has recommended in the negative (see Faculty Personnel Guidelines, VI.C.II) and the appellant alleges lack of adequate consideration (Faculty Personnel Guidelines, III.C.5) or violation of academic freedom. (For more information, see page 43, section 7, of DU's Faculty Personnel Guidelines.

The committee consists of nine members elected by academic units to staggered three-year terms. One member is appointed at large by the Provost for a three-year term. As many as three additional members may be appointed by the Senate Executive Committee for a one-year term in order to achieve diversity on the Committee and rectify perceived under representation.

One member may be appointed by the Senate President for the hearing of a single case, if the appellant's academic unit is not currently represented on the Committee. The appointment must be made from that academic unit, at the request of the appellant. For the business of the Committee, any seven members shall constitute a quorum.

AHUM:
Ann Dobyns, 2013

SOCS:
Dean Saitta, 2014

Members of the First-Year Seminar Committee:

• Work with the deans of AHSS and NSM to solicit course proposals
• Review and identify meritorious proposals
• Work with the writing director, the administration, and any Oversight Committee that may be established to develop policies (curricular and otherwise) with regard to the First-year Experience and/or First-Year Seminars
• Work with appropriate offices to devise assessment protocols for First-Year Seminars
• Maintain the ongoing quality of First-Year Seminars
• The First-Year Seminar Committee has six tenure-line faculty members elected by faculty colleagues in their respective divisions (two apiece from AHUM, SOCS and NSM). Faculty members serve two-year, renewable terms.
• The associate provost of Student Life and the writing director will serve on the committee as ex-officio, nonvoting members.
• AHSS Representatives to the First Year Seminar Committee Members:

AHUM:
Anne Dobyns, Fall 2012 - Spring 2014
Nicholas Rockwell, Spring 2013

SOCS:
Richie Hao, Fall 2012 - Spring 2014
Nancy Wadsworth, Spring 2013

This committee serves as the final appeal for students who challenge a course grade. The committee is appointed by the associate dean and meets as needed.

Linda Bensel-Meyers
Jennifer Pap
George Potts

The associate provost for Graduate Studies and the Graduate Council review, formulate and implement policy concerning graduate education. The Council also does the following:

• Oversees the configuration of graduate degree and certificate programs
• Monitors the degree to which these programs further the University's mission and avoid unwarranted duplication
• Establishes, monitors, and maintains academic standards across the graduate curricula
• Formulates policies including, but not limited to, the structure and quality of the graduate curricula, procedures concerning graduate student appeals, and policies governing the initiation and termination of graduate degree programs

Council members include the associate provost for Graduate Studies and Research; all of the academic deans from units with graduate programs; an elected faculty representative from each division; two elected representatives from the Faculty Senate; and one representative of the Graduate Student Association.

Faculty members serve two-year terms. Administrators such as the registrar, the dean of the Library, the vice chancellor for University Technology Services, the chair of the Undergraduate Council, the associate provost for Multicultural Excellence, or the vice provost for Internationalization shall be permitted to participate in the Committee's proceedings as voting members whenever any business is transacted that touches upon their responsibilities.

AHUM:
Scott Howard, Spring 2013

SOCS:
Bernadette Calafell, Fall 2012 - Spring 2014

The University Honors Program Council is a small, working committee that assists and advises the director and assistant director of the Honors Program in:

• Reviewing honors courses
• Developing and implementing admission procedures to the ProgramReviewing
• Setting policy and procedures for the Program
• Conducting program assessment

The committee has two members from each undergraduate Division and two honors-student members. Members serve three-year staggered, renewable terms. Meetings will be convened at least once per quarter, but more typically 2-3 times per term.

AHUM:
Susan Schulten, Spring 2014
Susan Stakel, Spring 2013

SOCS:
Trace Reddell, Spring 2014
Adrienne Russell, Spring 2013

The International Council (IC) will have oversight of University international policies and practices and directly report to the Provost with recommendations for the same.

The charge to the International Council is as follows:

1) Develop recommendations for University-wide proposals, policies, and practices designed to promote the University's internationalization initiatives (e.g. study abroad and student requirements, international student support, prioritizing of global regions of interest to DU as a whole, etc.).
2) Develop, monitor, and assess the internationalization component of the University's strategic plan.
3) Conduct and assess periodic audits of internationalization activity at the University level and prepare reports for the community.
4) Provide a university-wide perspective on and a resource for internationalization at DU, assembling information about opportunities for unit initiatives and offering a central place for discussing overseas linkage opportunities.
5) Provide oversight of distribution of internationalization funds to faculty and staff through a sub-committee of the IC.
6) Review as needed academic initiatives that require approval from the Office of Internationalization (e.g. academic travel abroad programming, international service learning and internships, policies for faculty-led programs, etc).

AHSS Representatives to the International Council:

AHUM:
Maik Nwosu, Spring 2014 

SOCS:
Renee Botta, Spring 2014 

Partners in Scholarship provides an undergraduate research infrastructure to support student/faculty collaborative research by distributing merit awards and research mini-grants through a competitive application process.

This committee meets once each quarter to read, evaluate and award the submitted applications.

AHUM:
Catherine Chauvin, Spring 2014
Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Spring 2014

SOCS:
Bonnie Clark, Spring 2013
Jennifer Reich, Fall 2012 - Spring 2014

Creative & Performing Arts Reps:
Lynn Baker, Spring 2013
Roddy MacInnes, Spring 2014

There is a tenure and promotion committee for both AHSS divisions (Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences). Each one has faculty member from each department in that division, including, if possible, one non-tenured (but tenure-track) member.

AHUM:
Philosophy
Theatre
History
English
Religious Studies
Art & Art History
Music
Languages & Literatures

SOCS:
Political Science
Anthropology
Economics
Sociology & Criminology
Media, Film, & Journalism Studies
Communication Studies
Psychology

The Undergraduate Council is charged with reviewing policy concerning undergraduate education and overseeing its implementation.

It formulates policies that are likely to affect existing patterns and standards—including curricular matters, facilities and services pertaining to undergraduate education—and presents its recommendations to the provost.

The Council formulates recommendations on policies governing the structure and quality of the undergraduate curricula, the initiation and termination of undergraduate degree programs, and systems and terms for the standards for Undergraduate Special Programs which lead to an academic degree but lie outside a particular department or school.

Council members include all academic deans from units with undergraduate programs selected faculty representatives from each division, and representatives elected or appointed by other groups. The registrar, vice provost of Student Life and president of the All Undergraduate Student Association (AUSA) serve as non-voting members. The Council may invite students and other ex-officio members to participate as needed.

Elected members serve two-year terms. The Undergraduate Council meets at least once a quarter and votes only on matters of University-wide concern. The deans rotate chairing the Undergraduate Council and maintaining relevant documentation pertaining to its work.

AHUM:
Ingrid Tague, Fall 2012 - Spring 2014
Greg Robbins, Spring 2013

SOCS:
Paul Colomy, Spring 2013
Roy Wood, Fall 2012 - Spring 2014