University Standing Committees and Task Forces

Duties

The Committee shall make recommendations to the President on the organization and membership of standing committees, review and recommend any needed committee composition description changes as part of its annual duties, and ensure that the committee compositions it recommends conform to the descriptions given in The University of Alabama Standing Committees document.

Composition

This committee shall consist of five faculty and four staff members, a Faculty Senate representative, and a student representative. The chairperson will be a faculty member chosen from the membership. New faculty members are nominated by the Faculty Senate. The CUC Chair will provide a list of faculty interested in service on the CUC to the Faculty Senate President prior to the Senate’s February meeting. The Senate may select nominees from the list of interested faculty or provide its own candidates. The Senate President will communicate the Senate’s choices to the CUC Chair prior to the staffing meeting in March. In addition, the following liaison member shall serve in a communications and advisory capacity: Associate Vice President for Human Resources and Vice President for Academic Affairs.  

The chair of the committee is elected by the full voting committee membership from the pool of continuing faculty members on the committee. The election takes place at the final meeting of the spring semester, with the new Chair assuming his/her duties at the end of spring semester.

Reporting Channel

Dr. Robert Witt, President through Dr. Judy Bonner, Executive Vice President and Provost

Membership

John Mason, Chairperson Prof, School of Accountancy 2009
Jeanette L. VanderMeer Asst Prof, Nursing 2011
Regina DeWitt Coord of Computer Laboratories & Services 2009
Julia Hartman Dean’s Office, A&S 2010
Susan Kinard Asst Dir, Testing, Enroll Serv & Prog 2011
Kathleen Cramer Senior Assoc VP for Student Affairs 2010
Karen S. Croneis Assoc Prof, University Libraries 2010
Bruce Kim Assoc Prof, Electrical & Computer Engineering 2009
Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers Asst Prof, Modern Languages & Classics 2010

Student Member

Brandon Clark (SGA VPAA)

Faculty Senate Representative

Karen Steckol, Prof, Communicative Disorders

Liaison Members

Charlotte Harris - Assoc Vice Pres for Human Resources
Judy Bonner - Executive Vice President and Provost