Faculty Handbook 2017-2018

B.2.e. 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 curricular changes to the Committee on Curriculum.

     The Engaged Citizen: Barth (ex officio), Falls-Corbitt, Gess (ex officio), Jellenik, Pfau, Tinsley (chair)

     Explorations: Brown, Sanders, Seme (chair)

     Learning Domains and Quantitative Skills Capacity: Committee on Curriculum (chair, Wright)

     Writing Capacity: Camfield, Čapek, Maupin (chair)

     Foreign Language Capacity: Languages Department (chair, Sutherland D)

     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 curricular changes to the Committee on Curriculum.

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

Classics: Campolo, Falls-Corbitt, Rauh, Resinski (chair)

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

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

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

Special Programs

W.C. Buthman Endowed Visiting Scholar and Lectureship Program

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

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 tba. Ex-officio members are Barth (Director of Civic Engagement Projects) and student tba (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 (Albert Braunfisch); Chair of Trustees Finance & Investments Committee (Bill Wilcox), and Hendrix Board of Trustees Liaison (non-voting, Allen McGee); and Murphy Scholars Representative (non-voting, Julianne Darden)

     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 (Krebs); and Murphy Scholars Representative (non-voting, Julianne Darden)

     Finance Committee: chair of the Hendrix College Investment Committee (Bill Wilcox); 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), Cone (Natatorium), Custer (Biology), Desrochers (Chemistry), Grace (Theatre Arts), Maakestad (Art), and Steward (Physics)

NCAA and SAA Faculty Representative: Camfield

Human Subjects Review Board: Bergfeld, Crowell, Fattor, Gunderson W, Kennedy (co-chair-spring), Kolev (co-chair-spring), Schwartzkopf (chair-fall) [Human Subjects Review Board Policy]

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee: Caro (Chemistry), S. Lom (Sociology-UCA), Moore (Career Services), M. Randolph, D.V.M. (UAMS), Penner (Psychology, chair), and Taylor (Psychology) [Animal Welfare Policy]

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

Interfaith Initiative Advisory Board: Roshaneh Ali (ex officio), Bergfeld, Caitlin Camper (ex officio), Gess (ex officio), Gill, Gorvine, Kelleybrew, Stuber, Tinsley, Whitney (ex officio), Williamson (chair)

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

Marshals of the College: Peszka (marshal), Miller (assistant marshal), and Moran (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: Gess (chair), Oudekerk, and Ryan