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'''Committees by Category (2013-2014)'''<br/>
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'''EEB Committees'''<br/>
By December 17, please fill in your membership, a one sentence summary of the purpose of the committee, and an estimate of the workload or effort.
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Please add your name (<span style="color:red">and your name only!</span>) 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 (2016)]] page, but of course please correct any inaccuracies after pasting!).
Please work in your committee to prepare a formal document of your committee's procedures, and send these to Kathy Tebo by Feb. 1, 2014.
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=University-level and College-level Committees=
  
=University and College=
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===University Senate===
 
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*Member(s): L. Lewis
===Academic Computing Committee (Provost’s)===
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*Summary:  
*Members: Henry
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*Summary: No longer in existence; Harry Frank used to run it, but it was discontinued at least 3 years ago.
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*Effort: N/A (it used to meet bimonthly)
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*Procedures: N/A
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===Academic Misconduct Hearing Officer===
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*Member(s): Colwell
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Academic Planning Committee (CLAS) ===
 
*Member(s): Bush
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Admissions Liaison (undergrads)===
 
*Member(s): Upson
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Animal Care and Handling===
 
*Member(s): Rubega
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Arboretum Committee===
 
*Member(s): Anderson (co-organizer), Morse, Henry
 
*Summary: Considers and responds to University initiatives that potentially impact campus plantings. This is an advisory body.
 
*Effort: Meets several times per year, as necessary; convened by co-organizers.
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Bioinformatics Facility (Biotechnology/Bioservices Center) ===
 
*Member(s): P. Lewis (co-facility head)
 
*Summary: oversee facility and its operations, enhance research and educational missions of facility
 
*Effort: Biweekly meetings with Co-facility-head Peter Gogarten, System Administrator Jeff Lary, and Bioinformatics Scientist Jill Wegrzyn
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Biotechnology Center Faculty Advisory Board===
 
*Member(s): Les, Rubega, Simon
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===B.S. Subcommittee===
 
*Member(s) : Eldridge Adams (Chair)
 
*Summary: Review B.S. proposals and make recommendations on B.S. policy for the CLAS C&C committee.
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly): meets irregularly; ~ 5 hours per year
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Building Committee, Torrey Replacement===
 
*Member(s): Caira, Goffinet,  Jockusch
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Climate Impact, Mitigation, Adaptation (CIMA) Organizing Committee===
 
*Member(s): Anderson, Likens, Urban
 
*Summary: organize events associated with an annual ‘environment month’ (=April) set of activities, speakers, panels, campus events
 
*Effort : at least once a month during academic year, often more regularly
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===CT Junior Science and Humanities Symposium===
 
*Member(s): Upson
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===CT State Museum of Natural History, Board of Directors===
 
*Member(s): Wagner
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Courses and Curriculum (CLAS)===
 
*Member(s): Adams
 
*Summary: Review course proposals and proposals to change majors, minors, or programs.  Liaison between department and the college for curricular matters. Coordinate consultations with other departments.  Present and defend EEB proposals.
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly): Meets 10 times per year for 2.5 hours per meeting; review approximately 230 proposals per year; proposal preparation.
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Graduate School Executive Committee===
 
*Member(s): Schultz
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
  
 
===Graduate School Faculty Council===
 
===Graduate School Faculty Council===
*Member(s): L. Lewis, Urban (alternate Schwenk)
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*Member(s): L. Lewis
 
*Summary: University-wide council setting policies for graduate students
 
*Summary: University-wide council setting policies for graduate students
*Effort Meets monthly
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*Effort: Meets monthly
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Latin American Studies Coord. Comm.===
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===Honors Advising===
*Member(s): Chazdon
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Library Committee===
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*Member(s): Colwell
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Library Liaison===
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*Member(s): Wells
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===McNair Advisory Board===
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*Member(s): Chazdon, Jockusch
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===National Scholarships Nomination Committees===
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*Member(s): Jockusch, Schultz
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Ornithologist, State===
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*Member(s): Rubega
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===OTS Board of Directors===
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*Member(s): Simon, Wagner
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Research Council===
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*Member(s): Caira
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Research Foundation Life Science Area Comm.===
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*Member(s): Simon
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Safety Committee Representative===
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*Member(s): L. Lewis
 
*Member(s): L. Lewis
 
*Summary:
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
  
===Senate (University) ===
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=Department-level Committees=
*Member(s): Caira, Chazdon, Jockusch, Schultz
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Senate Curriculum Committee===
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*Member(s): Schultz (chair)
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Senate Scholastic Standards Committee===
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*Member(s): Chazdon
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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===Senate University Budget Committee===
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*Member(s): Caira, Jockusch
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Review Committee ===
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*Member(s): Caira, L. Lewis, Schlichting, Urban
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*Summary: Chooses SURF recipients
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*Effort: Meets monthly in spring, requires reviews of 80 some proposals
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Teale Organizing Committee ===
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*Member(s): Anderson, Holsinger, Elphick
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*Summary: planning, organizing, inviting, hosting, linking with donors, linking with other supporting units across the university
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*Effort: 1-2 times/ yr formally, but work ~every week throughout the academic year
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===University-level Search Committee ===
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*Member(s): Anderson
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*Summary:  Search for University Master Planner, Head of Landscape Design in Architecture and Engineering Services
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*Effort: irregular, as needed
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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=Departmental=
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===Advisory Committee to Head===
 
===Advisory Committee to Head===
*Member(s): Caira, Diggle, Jockusch, Jones, Schultz, Willig
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*Member(s): L. Lewis
 
*Summary:
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
  
===Awards, Graduate Research Grants ===
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===PTR (Promote, Tenure, and Reappointment)===
*Member(s): Henry, Caira, Bush (invertebrates); others?
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*Summary: Solicits graduate student applications for funding from several EEB funding sources; recommends whether to fund and dollar amounts to award to these research proposals.
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*Effort: Yearly competition.  Committee work is done primarily through e-mail.  Estimated 20 hours per year per member.
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Awards, Outstanding Grad TA in EEB===
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*Member(s): Henry, L. Lewis, Schultz (chair)
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Awards, Undergraduate===
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*Member(s): Caira, Jockusch, Simon, Bush
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*Summary: In conjunction with MCB and PNB, decide on recipients of biology awards
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*Effort: ca. 6-8 hours for most; much more for organizer
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*Procedures:  Attend undergraduate biology honors symposium at end of spring semester; meet afterwards to decide on awards.  EEB organizes this symposium 1/3rd of time; faculty organizer solicits symposium participants, and award application materials, organizes and runs symposium, arranges awards and writes thank yous; assistance is provided by advising staff.
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===BS/MS Committee (EEB)===
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*Member(s): Elphick , Jockusch, Rubega, Schultz (chair)
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Center for Conservation and Biodiversity===
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*Member(s):Chazdon, Elphick, Holsinger, O'Donnell, Rubega, Silander, Wagner, Schlichting (ex officio), P. Anderson (staff)
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*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Chemical Hygiene and Safety Officer===
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*Member(s): L. Lewis
 
*Member(s): L. Lewis
*Summary:
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*Summary: Ensure that packets are complete and letters are secured for those coming up for tenure/promotion
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
  
===Collections Committee===
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===Courses and Curriculum Committee===
*Member(s): Caira, Coe, Goffinet (director), Holsinger, Jockusch, Jones, Les, Rubega, Schultz, Wagner, Willig
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*Member(s): Adams, P. Lewis
*Summary:
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*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Computer Committee===
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*Member(s): Henry (chair), Holsinger, P. Lewis
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*Summary: Considers computer issues associated with the McCarthy EEB Computer Room in TLS, as well as...
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*Effort: Meets as necessary, usually only a few times per year
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*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
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===Courses and Curriculum Committee - EEB===
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*Member(s): Adams, P. Lewis, Henry
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*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
 
*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.
 
*Effort: Meets several times/semester on as-needed basis; preparation of proposals.
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Courses and Curriculum - 1000s (interdept.)===
 
*Member(s): Jones (chair), Fry, Herrick
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly): Bi-annual scheduled meetings, scattered e-mail discussions throughout the year.
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Curriculum Review Committee, Undergraduate===
 
*Member(s): Adams (chair), Diggle, L. Lewis, Schultz
 
*Summary: Review goals of the undergraduate curriculum; propose changes in requirements of the major and minor; map alignment between current courses and curriculum goals; review two-year cycle of course offerings; review scheduling of core courses, lab and field courses, W courses, and diversity courses; propose course changes; propose staffing plan on a two-year cycle; review fall/spring balance of TA positions.
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly): Evolving. Expected to be >20 hours per year.
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Curriculum Review Committee, Graduate===
 
*Member(s): Elphick (chair), Jockusch, Yuan
 
*Summary: Review goals of the graduate curriculum; propose changes in requirements; map alignment between current courses and curriculum goals; review course offerings; review scheduling of core courses; propose course changes; develop graduate student handbook; update information for graduate students on EEBedia ontogeny pages.
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly): Evolving. Expected to be >20 hours per year initially, hopefully declining in the future.
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Faculty Mentors===
 
*Member(s): Bush, Schultz, Jockusch
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Faculty Retreat Organizing Committee, 2013 ===
 
*Member(s): Diggle, Jockusch, Lewis, Schultz
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort :
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Faculty Search Committee (Plant Ecology position) ===
 
*Member(s): Adams, Elphick, Jones, L. Lewis, Schultz (chair), Urban
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Faculty Search Committee (Director of Center for Integrative Geosciences) ===
 
*Member(s): Bush
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Fall/Spring Open House===
 
*Member(s): Upson, Schwenk
 
*Summary:  Attend fall and spring open houses to represent EEB and its programs to interested high school students and their parents
 
*Effort: Open house is twice per year and lasts 3-4 hours each time
 
*Procedures:  Show up, answer questions, have informational handouts/pamphlets available, provide advice about appropriate majors, promote EEB
 
 
===Graduate Admissions/Awards Committee===
 
*Member(s): Goffinet, Jockusch, Urban, Wagner (Chair), Tebo (Staff)
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Graduate Admissions/Awards Committee (Geosciences)===
 
*Member(s): Bush (Chair)
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Greenhouse Committee ===
 
*Member(s): Jones (Chair), Les, Morse (Staff) Schlichting
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Honors Advising===
 
*Member(s): Bush, Holsinger, Jockusch, Simon, Urban
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===The Katie Bu Memorial Fund===
 
*Members:  Schultz, Jones, Schaefer
 
*Summary: Undergraduate Research Award to support undergraduates who are working on degrees and conducting research in environmental science.
 
*Effort: Evaluation of 3-8 applications annually
 
 
===PTR in EEB (2013-14) ===
 
*Member(s): Adams, Jockusch, L. Lewis, Schultz, Willig (Chair)
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Radiation Safety===
 
*Member(s): Les
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Seminar Organizer===
 
*Member(s): Urban, Yuan
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Space Advisor===
 
*Member(s): Schultz
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Teaching Awards - 1000s===
 
*Member(s): Wagner (chair), with Giardina
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Teaching Awards - upper division===
 
*Member(s): Schultz
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
===Undergraduate Studies, Director of===
 
*Member(s): Jones
 
*Summary:
 
*Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
 
=== EEB Web Content Committee ===
 
*Member(s): P. Lewis, Tebo (staff), Upson (staff)
 
*Summary: keep the (MySQL) database of people, courses and events (seminars) displayed on the EEB web site up-to-date
 
*Effort: as needed
 
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 
  
 
=== EEB Webmaster===
 
=== EEB Webmaster===
 
*Member(s): P. Lewis
 
*Member(s): P. Lewis
*Summary: maintain web site software and administer operating system on server (www.eeb.uconn.edu)
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*Summary: Maintain web site content for main EEB web site (eeb.uconn.edu), administer server hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu to maintain EEBedia
 
*Effort: 1-2 hours/week normally, much more at beginning of semester
 
*Effort: 1-2 hours/week normally, much more at beginning of semester
*Procedures:  Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.
 

Revision as of 16:59, 31 August 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 (2016) page, but of course please correct any inaccuracies after pasting!).

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
  • Summary: University-wide council setting policies for graduate students
  • Effort: Meets monthly

Honors Advising

  • Member(s): L. Lewis
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):

Department-level Committees

Advisory Committee to Head

  • Member(s): L. Lewis
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):

PTR (Promote, Tenure, and Reappointment)

  • Member(s): L. Lewis
  • Summary: Ensure that packets are complete and letters are secured for those coming up for tenure/promotion
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):

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 Webmaster

  • Member(s): P. Lewis
  • Summary: Maintain web site content for main EEB web site (eeb.uconn.edu), administer server hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu to maintain EEBedia
  • Effort: 1-2 hours/week normally, much more at beginning of semester