Committees & Task Forces

Standing Committees

• Academic Affairs Committee
• Collaboration, Communication, & Engagement Committee
• Executive Council
• Faculty Grievance Committee
• Faculty Recruitment, Retention, Retirement, & Welfare Committee
• Finance Committee
• Nominating Committee
• Planning Committee
• Policy Committee
• Research, Teaching, & Scholarship Committee

Task Forces

Faculty Senate 2012-2013 task forces

• AAUP/External
  Chair:  Peter Norton
  Mission:  To build constructive relationships with AAUP and other external organizations that can serve as effective advocates of shared governance at the University of Virginia.
  Contact: norton@virginia.edu

• Electronic Communications
  Co-leaders: Tom Mark and Shayn Peirce-Cottler
  Mission: To facilitate communication between senators, task forces, and committees of the Faculty Senate and between the Senate and the broader UVA community using electronic tools. Check us out on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/UVAFacultySenate) and follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/uvafacultysen).
  Contacts: tmark@virginia.edu and shayn@virginia.edu
  
  

• Online Education
  Chair: William Guilford
  Faculty Senate Liaison: Shayn Peirce-Cottler
  Mission: To delineate and define digital and online learning, comprehensively determine what is and has been done at UVa, find quantitative evidence of its efficacy, costs, and benefits, and make recommendations for our approach to digital and online learning at UVa.
  Contact: guilford@virginia.edu
  Committee Report: Overview of Online Education at UVA (July 17, 2012)
  

• BOV Composition
  Co-Leaders: Sue Pollart and Jeanine Braithwaite
  Faculty Senate Liaison: Francesca Fiorani
  Mission: To support the Faculty Senate in its efforts to develop a legislative proposal on board reform by producing a report on best practices for the composition of boards of higher education, including recommendations for reforming the BOV at the University of Virginia.
  Contacts: SPS2S@virginia.edu and jdb6bc@virginia.edu
  Committee Report: BOV Composition Task Force Report (October 18, 2012)
  

   

• PROPOSAL: Reflections On Higher Education & UVA's "Sudden Changes To Leadership" (Fall 2012 events, colloquia, symposium) - Co-Chairs: Brian Owensby and Deborah Parker
  
  
  
• Faculty Senate Task Force on the University's Policy for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty - as of May 2009, this task force is no longer functioning
• Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Publication and Authors' Rights - as of May 2011, this task force is no longer functioning