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Ad Hoc Committee on Priorities & Resources - 6 members (2012-2013)

This committee is composed of six elected faculty members, drawn from the Arts & Sciences Steering Committee and current department chairs and program directors, five associate deans, and the Dean. The Senior Associate Dean and the Associate Dean for Management and Budget staff the committee. The Dean chairs the committee and convenes meetings, normally monthly during the academic year.

CPR advises the Dean on (a) the allocation of the College's fiscal and human resources; (b) long-range financial and capital planning; (c) trends in the College's annual budget; (d) matters relating to priorities in fund raising; and (e) positioning the College's priorities and needs with University leadership. The Committee shall also solicit, generate, and review proposals for major new projects and initiatives, assess progress in achieving the goals of current initiatives, and recommend priorities for the allocation and reallocation of resources.

Laura Galloway	Biology	1st year
Harry Gamble	Religious Studies	1st year
David Leblang	Politics	1st year
John Miller	Classics	1st year
Ricardo Padrón	Spanish	1st year
Dinko Pocanic	Physics	1st year

Arts & Sciences Nominating Committee – 9 members (2012-2013)

The Nominating Committee shall solicit nominations from the Faculty for all Committees except the Nominating Committee and taking into account the representation of disciplinary areas and academic ranks, shall in February of each session present a ballot with nominees for all committee assignments that are to be filled (except the Nominating Committee).

Kate Burke	Drama	2015
Robert Geraci	History	2015
Dinko Pocanic	Physics	2015
Deborah Roach	Biology	2015
David Gies	Spanish	2014
Kevin Hart	Religious Studies	2014
Alison Levine	French	2014
Paul Kingston	Sociology	2013
David Mills, Chair	Economics	2013

Committee on Budget and Personnel Policy – *6 members (*7 members for 2012-2013)

This committee provides general oversight of the budget policy and allocation of resources by the Dean of the Faculty, and of policy concerning faculty appointments and their termination, promotions, tenure, and salary ranges as administered by the Dean.

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Robert Kretsinger, Chair	Biology	6th  year
Dan Devereux	Philosophy	4th  year
Robert Emery	Psychology	3rd  year
Ira Herbst	Math	3rd  year
Jenny Clay	Classics	2nd  year
Hanadi Al-Samman	MESALC	1st year
Jim Savage	Politics	1st year

Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum (CEPC) – 12 members (2012-2013)

This committee deals with broad policies affecting undergraduate education and such specific matters as course changes, new courses, new major programs, degree requirements, and rules governing the academic status of students. For more information, see how to submit a proposal.

Steve  Thornton	Physics	5th year
Lee Coppock	Economics	4th year
Herbert (Tico) Braun, Chair	History	3rd  year
Ellen Contini-Morava	Anthropology	3rd year
Denise Walsh	Politics	2nd year
Dorothe Bach	TRC	1st year
Claire Cronmiller	Biology	1st year
Julian Connolly	Slavic	1st year
Jeff Grossman	German	1st year
Charlotte Patterson	Psychology	1st year
Jennifer Tsien	French	1st year
Bruce Williams	Media Studies	1st year

Committee on Faculty Rules – 6 members (2012-2013)

This committee is empowered to interpret the rules of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and to determine how they are to be applied to individual students who wish to appeal decisions made in their cases by the Dean of the College.

Charlie Grisham, Chair	Chemistry	6th  year
Gertrude Fraser	Anthropology/Provost	3rd  year
Harold Langsam	Philosophy	2nd  year
Reg Garrett	Biology	2nd  year
Linda Blum	Environmental Sciences	1st year
Aniko Bodroghkozy	Media Studies	1st year

Committee on Undergraduate Excellence – 15 members (2012-13)

The working group's charge is to propose an overall concept and direction for the College's general education program, including recommendations as to the outcomes we should expect from the undergraduate experience in Arts & Sciences and the curricular pathways, methods of instruction, and co-curricular experiences most appropriate to foster those outcomes. In carrying out this charge, the committee should consider:

• the purpose of education in the College, and more specifically the general education program;
• content, in terms of fields of study, habits of mind, skills and competencies, and orientation;
• the means and modes through which this education be delivered, including the co-curriculum;
• strategies for providing greater coherence and intentionality in students' selection of courses outside the major;
• the goals and pedagogical strategies for students learning year-by-year as the students navigates through the curriculum; and
• implications for advising.

The work of the committee will span the remainder of the 2012-13 academic year and the beginning of next year, culminating in a report to the Dean no later than November 1, 2013. The report should focus on three sets of recommendations: (1) defining the purpose and goals for general education in the College of Arts & Sciences; (2) the framework of a curricular model and co-curricular experiences to achieve those goals, including any new initiatives, course clusters or suggested restructuring of existing requirements; and (3) insights on pedagogy and methods of instruction. Further information about this committee will be available here: http://college.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/UgrdExcellence

 

Bruce Williams, Chair	Environmental Sciences
Talbot Brewer	Department of Philosophy
Mark Hadley	Department of Religious Studies
Richard Handler	Global Development Studies and Department of Anthropology
Jeffrey Holt	Department of Statistics
Rebecca Kneedler	Curry School of Education
Patricia Lampkin	Vice President for Student Affairs
Alison Levine	Department of French
Rachel Most	Department of Anthropology
Iggy Provencio	Department of Biology
Leonard Schoppa	Department of Politics
Hank Shugart	Department of Environmental Sciences
Gordon Stewart	Department of German
Juliet Trail	Office of the Dean
Chad Wellmon	Department of German

New Learning Technologies Committee – 13 members (2012-13)

The New Learning Technologies Committee serves to establish and promote technology resources available to faculty and students and to explore new ways of integrating technologies to support teaching and research. The Committee will generally meet monthly to discuss instructional technology initiatives, best practices for using teaching tools, and emerging teaching and learning trends in higher education. The longer term goal of this Committee will be to advise the Dean broadly on a strategy, consistent with the College's mission, to design and implement a state-of-the-art educational technology culture and structure for Arts & Sciences. Initially, the Committee will focus on developing a robust faculty grant program to encourage innovation in teaching with technology to improve learning in undergraduate classes. In meeting this aim, the Committee will:

1. Provide a forum in which faculty can share their experiences in the use of teaching and learning technologies.
2. Develop a framework for small- and large-scale faculty-led projects related to technology and teaching initiatives.
3. Establish a process for soliciting and selecting among faculty proposals.
4. Provide recommendations to the Dean on the areas of the curriculum to which faculty projects should be targeted.
   

Jon D'errico	Assistant Professor of English, Associate Director of Professional & Academic Writing
Francesca Fiorani	Associate Professor of Art
Bernard Frischer	Professor of Art History & Classics
David Germano	Professor of Religious Studies, Director of SHANTI
Charles Grisham	Professor of Chemistry
Alison Levine	Horace W Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Professor of French
Stephanie Moore	Director of Engineering Instructional Design, School of Engineering & Applied Science
John O'Brien	Associate Professor of English
Justin Thompson	Director of Innovations & Outreach, Curry School of Education
Juliet Trail	Special Assistant to the Dean
Siva Vaidhyanathan	Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies and Chair
Meredith Woo	Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts & Sciences
Philip Zelikow	Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and White Burkett Miller Professor of History

Promotion and Tenure Committee (2012-13)

The Promotion and Tenure Committee reviews the cases of faculty who are being considered for promotion to associate professor with tenure or full professor. The committee members consider each case as presented by the faculty member's home department and make a recommendation to the dean of Arts & Sciences about whether or not to grant promotion or tenure.

Paul Barolsky	Art
Karen Chase	English
George Klosko	Politics
Kevin Lehman	Chemistry
Sara Myers	Classics
Mike Pace	Environmental Sciences
Dinko Pocanic	Nuclear & Particle Physics
John Simmons	Philosophy
Tim Wilson	Psychology
Olivier Zunz	History

Steering Committee - 9 members (2012-2013)

The Arts & Sciences Steering Committee sets the agenda for, and conducts meetings of, the faculty of College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. The faculty generally meets twice a semester.

Aaron Mills	Environmental Sciences	2015
Francesca Fiorani	Art	2015
Mitchell Green	Philosophy	2015
Ricardo Padrón	Spanish	2014
Michael Smith	Politics	2014
Peter Abramenko	Math	2013
Harry Gamble	Religious Studies	2013
Clare Kinney	English	2013
Mark Thomas, Chair	History	2013

Updated February 2013