Faculty Handbook 2017-2018

Other Faculty Committees

Collegiate Center Committees

     Each of the following committees or individuals is responsible for its respective part of the Collegiate Center. Responsibilities include initiating curricular design, advising Academic Affairs in annual course offerings, designing and implementing faculty development projects, and proposing changes to the curriculum Committee on Curriculum.

     The Engaged Citizen: Barth (ex officio), Falls-Corbitt, Gess (ex officio), Harris, Pfau, Schurko, Tinsley (convener)

     Explorations: Brown, Sanders, Seme (chair)

     Learning Domains and Quantitative Skills Capacity: Committee on Curriculum

     Writing Capacity: Camfield, Čapek, Maupin (chair)

     Foreign Language Capacity: Foreign Languages department chair [Contreras-Silva]

     Physical Activity Capacity: Physical Activity Coordinator [McCracken, J]

Interdisciplinary Programs Committees

     The following committees are analogous to academic departments in their relationship to the Committee on Curriculum. Each committee is responsible for initiating curricular design, for advising Academic Affairs in the scheduling or approving of annual course offerings, for designing and implementing faculty development projects, and for proposing changes to the curriculum to the Committee on Curriculum

Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: Caro, Dearolf, Duina (chair), Goodwin, Hales, Harper, Kopper, Murray, Schurko, Sutherland M, Willyard

Classics: Campolo, Rauh, Resinski (chair)

Environmental Studies: Capek, Dow, Gess, Gron, Hardin, Hancock, Hatch (chair), Hill, Hines, McClung, McDaniel, Moran

Interdisciplinary Minors: Pfau, Resinski, Sprunger (chair), Sutherland D (ex officio), West

Neuroscience: Bonebright, Dow, Ferrer, Goadrich, Kopper, Murray, Muscedere, Penner, Peszka, Schmidt (chair), Taylor

Special Programs

W.C. Buthman Endowed Visiting Scholar and Lectureship Program

     The Program Chair is Eastham. Proposals for speakers are vetted by the Program Chair through the Social Science Area departments.

Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics, and Calling

     Membership of the Miller Center Advisory Board includes Gess, Jackson, Maupin, Stuber, Sutherland D, Templeton, and Williamson (chair). Ex officio members are Bonebright and Whitney.

Project Pericles

     Membership of the Project Pericles Advisory Committee includes Barth (Project Pericles Program Director), Campbell D, Gess, and Shutt; staff and community members Craig Berry, Mary Henderson, Rob O’Connor, and Nancy Wood; and students David Tate and Nancy Ghaleb. Ex-officio members are Barth (Director of Civic Engagement Projects) and student Jessica Amos (VAC representative).

Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language

     Officers of the Foundation: President (Tsutsui); Vice President (Bonebright); Secretary/Treasurer (Siebenmorgen)

     Board of Directors: President of the College (Tsutsui); Spouse of Lineal Descendant of Bertie Wilson Murphy (Suzanne Murphy); Lineal Descendant of Bertie Wilson Murphy (Martha Wilson Murphy); Chair of the College Board of Trustees (David A. Knight); Chair of Trustees Finance & Investments Committee (Roger King), and Hendrix Board of Trustees Liaison (non-voting, Allen McGee); and Murphy Scholars Representative (non-voting, Annika Miller)

     Program Review Committee: Executive Vice President and Provost (Bonebright); Lineal Descendant of Bertie Wilson Murphy (Martha Wilson Murphy); Spouse of Lineal Descendant of Bertie wilson Murphy (Suzanne Murphy); Foundation Director (Coulter); Foundation Program Review Committee (Duina); and Murphy Scholars Representative (non-voting, Annika Miller)

     Finance Committee: chair of the Hendrix College Investment Committee (King); Secretary/Treasurer of the Foundation (Siebenmorgen); the Two Murphy Family Members Serving on the Foundation Board of Directors (Martha Wilson Murphy and Suzanne Murphy); and the Hendrix College Liaison (McGee)

Steel Center

     Membership of the Steel Center Board includes Ablondi (chair), Campolo, Whitney, Dow, Bonebright, Falls-Corbitt, Gorvine, Harris, McDaniel, Sanders, Schmidt, and Williamson.

Faculty Programs Support Committees

Academic Chemical Safety Officers: Bradley (Campus Chemical Compliance Director, chair), Bell (Biology), Cone (Natatorium), Fuller (Chemistry), Grace (Theatre Arts), Maakestad (Art), and Steward (Physics)

Human Subjects Review Board: Bergfeld, Kennedy (co-chair), Kolev (co-chair), Miyawaki, Schwartzkopf, Community Health representatives: Kittie Aaron (Conway Interfaith Clinic), and Vafa Ferdowsian (Ferdowsian Foot & Ankle Clinic) [Human Subjects Review Board Policy]

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee: Caro (Chemistry), Duina (Biology), M. Randolph, D.V.M. (UAMS), Murphy (library), off-campus rep TBA, Penner (Psychology, chair), and Muscedere (Biology) [Animal Welfare Policy]

Institutional Biosafety Committee: Bradley, Duina, Murray (chair), and Willyard

International Student English Evaluation and Placement Committee: Hines, Stockwell (chair), and West

Marshals of the College: Goodwin (marshal), Miller (assistant marshal), and Peszka (assistant marshal). The College Marshals direct academic processions and seating at all convocations and Commencement.

Odyssey Categories Advisory Group: Cambiano, Gess (chair), Courtway (GA), Goldberg (UR), Krebs (AC), Lassiter-Counts (PL), and Barth (SW-Social Change) and Williamson (SW-Social Needs)

Research Integrity Officer: Moran [Research Integrity Statement]

Travel Advisory Committee: Eastham, Gess (chair), and Ryan