Faculty Senate

Chair:  John Windsor

Membership: 12 members - 8 faculty elected by the Senate, 1 academic dean elected by the academic deans, and 1 student appointed by the Student Government Association & the Registrar. One member of this committee will be an administrative ex officio non-voting member from the graduate school appointed by the graduate school Vice Provost.

Terms: The chair shall be elected by the members of the committee and serves a 2 year term. Faculty members 3 years, student members and academic dean 1 year.

* Indicates Second Term

• Group I: Will Derusha (SPAN) - Term Ends 2019*
  
• Group II: VACANT (Crawford)
• Group III: Matthew Dulock (MATH) - Term Ends 2019
• Group IV: Wendy Watson (PSCI) - Term Ends 2018 
• Group V:  John Windsor (ITDS)- Term Ends 2017
• Group VI: VACANT (Mathis)
• Group VII: VACANT (Thompson)
  
• Group VIII: VACANT (Dubberly)

Administrative Representatives:

• Deans' Representative: VACANT
• SGA Representative: VACANT
• Registrar designee: Keitha Robertson
• VP of AA designee: Christy Crutsinger, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
  
• Vice Provost of Toulouse Graduate School designee:  VACANT
• Admissions Executive Director: Rebecca Lothringer
  

Academic Affairs Committee Charges 2015-2016:

• The Academic Affairs Committee shall study and make recommendations to the senate on university policy concerning admission standards of entering undergraduate students;
• suspension, probation and dismissal of students for academic reasons, standards for graduation;
• the policies on awarding of honors to graduates;
• Review the current admission policy of the Graduate School, the retention rate and graduation rate, and the Admissions Standards and Requirements;
• Work with the Oversight Committee on the Core Curriculum, the Curriculum Committee, and the Associate Deans on continuing oversight of the Core Curriculum to ensure it reflects UNT’s values;
• “Reconsider and evaluate changes to the transfer admissions standards criteria;”
• “Reconsider and evaluate course transfer criteria, specifically looking at transfers from UNT-Dallas;”
• Any other academic concerns that may be assigned by the senate. 

 Academic Affairs Committee Annual Report 2014-2015