Policy

Academic Policies and Standards Committee (CAPS) meets the Wednesday before classes start each semester (Fall and Spring) in GMH 325. During the Fall and Spring semesters CAPS meets on selected by the committee Friday's from 2:15 - 3:30 pm in GMH 325.

2023-2024 Membership

Keith D Beyer
Randika Sanjeewa Eramudugoda Gamage
Stewart Scott Eskew
Haxia Lan
Niti Mishra, convener/recorder
Samuel Schmidt, chair
Daniel Schneider
Paul B Schweiger
Sarah Mosley

Alexa Fleegal, Undergraduate Student Representative

Zack Schueller, Undergraduate Student Representative

Michaela Smith, Undergraduate Student Representative

Duties and Responsibilities

• Formulating and reviewing local policies and standards concerning admissions, advising, retention, advanced standing, probation, dismissal, readmission, the grading system, and graduation honors for undergraduate students. 
• Ensuring equitable application of standards by the undergraduate schools and colleges. A voting member has the responsibility to recuse themself if they are unable to ensure equitable application of standards due to a conflict of interest. 
• Supervising the administration of these standards and formulating procedures for hearing student appeals and petitions on academic matters not resolved by administrative offices of the university. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

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The Graduate Council meets on 1^st/3^rd Friday’s of each month during the Fall and Spring semesters, from 10:00 – 11:30 am in GMH 325

2023-2024 Membership

Naoko Giblin, recorder
Daniel Hyson
Amber Leibundgut-Peterson
Markus Mika
Shane Patrick Murphy
Nese Nasif
Kanikkai Steni Balan Sachiriyas
Anton Sanderfoot, convener/chair
Paul Schweiger
Katy Ptasyznski, Graduate Student Representative
Cole Verbeten, Graduate Student Representative

Duties and Responsibilities

• In partnership with programs, departments, schools, and colleges, regularly establishing, monitoring, and revising academic policies pertaining to graduate education, including policies for graduate student admission, honors recognition, retention, probation, dismissal, and readmission, and reviewing those policies at least every five years. 

• In partnership with the Director of Graduate Studies, sharing responsibility for graduate education strategic planning to ensure: 
  • on-going review, assessment, and revision of the strategic plan; and 
  • implementation of recommendations resulting from strategic planning activities. 
• Overseeing membership in the graduate faculty. 
  • Determine procedures and criteria for selecting members of the graduate faculty. 
  • Review new graduate faculty applications through a standing subcommittee. 
  • Periodically approve and updated roster of members of the graduate faculty. 
• Formulating procedures for hearing graduate student appeals and petitions on academic policy matters not resolved by administrative offices of the university. 

• Reviewing Research, Service, and Education Leadership (RSEL) grant applications through a standing subcommittee. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Graduate Council Committee.

2023-2024 Membership

Tushar Das
Timothy L McAndrews
Jocelyn H Newton
Kelly Nowicki-Vanrooyen
Kenneth Shonk, recorder
Rose Brougham, chair
Chia Chen Yu

Grant Mathu, Student Representative

Duties and Responsibilities

• Study and report to the senate on university budget decisions that affect instruction and research. 

• Review annual budgets and report to the senate on trends in support for instruction. 

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Budget Review Committee.

2023-2024 Membership

Beth Boser
Lisa Caya
Kari Johnson, recorder
Sara Heaser, chair
Lisa Kobs
Laurie Miller, convener
Brian James Pompeii
Brett Townsend
Abigail Flahive Wagner

Duties and Responsibilities

• Studying, developing, and recommending policies and procedures used in the university concerning salary, position types and titles, promotion, workload, and general working conditions for Instructional Academic Staff. 

• Studying, developing, and making recommendations regarding the implementation in the university of such policies and procedures. 

• Collecting and disseminating information on such policies and procedures and their implementation in the university. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Instructional Academic Staff Committee.

2023-2024 Membership

Alan Bigel
Enilda Delgado
Nabamita Dutta, convener
Lisa M Kruse
Aaron P Monte
Anup Menon Nandialath
Eileen M Narcotta-Welp
Todd M Weaver
Huiya Yan

Duties and Responsibilities

• Studying and recommending policies and procedures used in the university concerning salary, promotion, and tenure. 

• Collecting and disseminating information on procedures employed within the university in matters concerning promotion, tenure, and salary. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Promotion, Tenure & Salary Committee.

2023-2024 Membership

David Anderson
Eric I Barnes, recorder
Colin Belby
Alan Bigel
Ann M Epstein
Christa Kiersch
Robert Ragan, chair/convener
Casey Tobin
Maru Janean Tollefson

Duties and Responsibilities

• Consulting with the chancellor on financial emergencies in which faculty layoffs are anticipated as prescribed in UWS 5. 

• Participating in any decision regarding potential program curtailment, in accordance with UWL 5.05 - 5.08. 

• Representing the faculty before the board of regents if a state of financial emergency is declared, as detailed in UWS 5.04 - 5.06. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Consultative Layoff Committee.