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Revision as of 21:26, 12 September 2016
EEB Committees
Please add your name (and your name only!) to any committees you are on, and add entries for committees that do not yet have an entry here (feel free to copy/paste information about a committee from the now-obsolete Committees (2015) page, but of course please correct any inaccuracies after pasting!).
Contents
- 1 University-level and College-level Committees
- 1.1 University Senate
- 1.2 Graduate School Faculty Council
- 1.3 Environmetal Policy Advisory Council
- 1.4 Honors Advising
- 1.5 CLAS Committee on Curricula and Courses
- 1.6 Environmental Literacy
- 1.7 UConn@COPx
- 1.8 Udall fellowship selection committee
- 1.9 Environmental Science program oversight committee
- 1.10 Teale Lecture Series organizing committee
- 1.11 Kasowitz Colloquium committee
- 2 Department-level Committees
- 2.1 Advisory Committee to Head
- 2.2 Graduate student committee AKA GAAC!
- 2.3 PTR (Promote, Tenure, and Reappointment)
- 2.4 Courses and Curriculum Committee
- 2.5 EEB Fundraising Committee
- 2.6 EEB Seminar Committee
- 2.7 Grad Research Awards (Zoology)
- 2.8 Grad Research Awards (Botany)
- 2.9 Search Committee (Fall 2016)
- 2.10 Webmaster
- 2.11 BS/MS Steering Committee
- 2.12 Organization for Tropical Studies Representative
- 2.13 Center for Conservation and Biodiversity
- 2.14 Geoscience Committees
University-level and College-level Committees
University Senate
- Member(s): L. Lewis
- Summary:
- Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
Graduate School Faculty Council
- Member(s): L. Lewis, M. Urban, A. Bush (for GSCI)
- Summary: University-wide council setting policies for graduate students
- Effort: Meets monthly
Environmetal Policy Advisory Council
- Member(s): C. Simon
- Summary: University-wide council advising on policies for greening the university
- Effort: Meets once or twice per semester
Honors Advising
- Member(s): L. Lewis, C. Simon, A. Bush, M. Urban, M. Tingley
- Summary: Advise multiple honors students
- Effort:one or more times per semester
CLAS Committee on Curricula and Courses
- Members(s): P. Lewis
- Summary: meet with representatives of all departments within CLAS to approve course proposals at the College level
- Effort: meets 2 hours twice per month in fall semesters and once per month in spring semesters
Environmental Literacy
- Member(s): Wagner, Urban, Willig, Schultz
- Summary: Establish environmental literacy requirements on campus
- Effort: Multiple times per semester
UConn@COPx
- Member(s): M. Urban
- Summary: University-wide trip to UN climate change talks and outreach/projects on campus
- Effort: Multiple times per semester plus week-long trip to talks
Udall fellowship selection committee
- Member(s): M. Urban
- Summary: Choose and advise University applications to Morris K. Udall fellowship
- Effort: Multiple times per year
Environmental Science program oversight committee
- Member(s): C. Elphick
- Summary: Oversee Environmental Science program's curriculum, advise students
- Effort: Meet 1-2 times per semester; advise 15-20 students (including honor's students)
Teale Lecture Series organizing committee
- Member(s): C. Elphick
- Summary: Plan lecture series, host speakers
- Effort: Multiple times per year
Kasowitz Colloquium committee
- Member(s): C. Elphick
- Summary: Design and (ultimately) oversee new colloquium series focused on environmental issue
- Effort: Multiple times per year
Department-level Committees
Advisory Committee to Head
- Member(s): L. Lewis, C. Elphick
- Summary: Advises head on departmental matters
- Effort: Meets several times a semester and conducts other business via email
Graduate student committee AKA GAAC!
- Member(s): Wagner, Jockusch, Urban, Goffinet, Elphick
- Summary: Admit students, administer summer funding, award demis, all things graduate student
- Effort: Variable; weekly during crunch times
PTR (Promote, Tenure, and Reappointment)
- Member(s): L. Lewis, C. Simon, M. Urban
- Summary: Ensure that packets are complete and letters are secured for those coming up for tenure/promotion
- Effort): Several times per semester
Courses and Curriculum Committee
- Member(s): Adams, P. Lewis
- Summary: Advise faculty in preparing course proposals; bring new course proposals to EEB faculty vote; transmit course proposals to CLAS CCC; submit proposals to the Senate and GEOC
- Effort: Meets several times/semester on as-needed basis; preparation of proposals.
EEB Fundraising Committee
- Member(s): Caira, Urban, Schlichting
- Summary: Raise outside funds
- Effort: Multiple times per semester
EEB Seminar Committee
- Member(s): Tingley
- Summary: Invite speakers, organize weekly seminars
- Effort: Weekly
Grad Research Awards (Zoology)
- Member(s): Tingley
- Summary: Distribute summer awards
- Effort: Several times, spring semester
Grad Research Awards (Botany)
- Member(s):
- Summary: Distribute summer awards
- Effort: Several times, spring semester
Search Committee (Fall 2016)
- Member(s): Jockusch, Urban, Elphick, Willig, Bagchi
- Summary: Run job search
- Effort: Meets often
Webmaster
- Member(s): P. Lewis
- Summary: Maintain web site content for primary EEB web site (http://eeb.uconn.edu/), and administer server hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu to maintain EEBedia (http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Main_Page)
- Effort: 1-2 hours/week normally, much more at beginning of semester
BS/MS Steering Committee
- Member(s): E. Schultz, C. Simon, C. Elphick
- Summary: Interview students for BS/MS degrees, advise on matters relating to BS/MS program
- Effort as needed
Organization for Tropical Studies Representative
- Member(s): D.Wagner, C. Simon
- Summary: pass on information from OTS to UCONN, assist students in applications
- Effort: as needed
Center for Conservation and Biodiversity
- Member(s): Tingley, Elphick
- Summary: Advisory board
- Effort: as needed
Geoscience Committees
- Member(s): A. Bush
- I'm just going to list all this in one place since it doesn't affect the rest of EEB but counts towards my service
- Graduate Committee Chair: organize graduate admissions, revise graduate student policies, various other issues. Effort: a lot.
- Undergraduate Curriculum Committee member: revise undergraduate course requirements and policies. Effort: approx. monthly
- Awards Committee member: coordinate Center awards; nominate faculty for awards. Effort: as needed
- Space Committee member: assist in planning space usage. Effort: as needed.