The University of Tulsa
Faculty Senate
Charges to Standing Committees Fall 1998
I - Charges for the Academic Affairs Committee:
Standing Charge:
the Academic Affairs Committee shall concern itself with policies
and problems related to the academic mission of the University.
- Identify the issues that your Committee can or should be addressing during each of the
next five years in order to help the University of Tulsa become a top 50 institution.
- Which of those issues should your Committee work on during the coming year?
- Are there specific outcomes or goals that your Committee can or should attempt to
achieve this year? What are they?
- Please develop a work plan that your Committee can adopt for the coming year.
II - Charges for the Student Affairs Committee:
Standing Charge: the Student Affairs Committee shall concern itself with all
aspects of student life that relate directly to the educational process. It shall appoint
faculty members to the Student Publications Board pursuant to the "Student
Publications Policy Statement".
- Identify the issues that your Committee can or should be addressing during each of the
next five years in order to help the University of Tulsa become a top 50 institution.
- Which of those issues should your Committee work on during the coming year?
- Are there specific outcomes or goals that your Committee can or should attempt to
achieve this year? What are they?
- Please develop a work plan that your Committee can adopt for the coming year.
- The Committee is also charged with serving as the Task force on course evaluation
procedures.
III - Charges for the Faculty Affairs Committee:
Standing Charge: the Faculty Affairs Committee shall concern itself with faculty
relations within the University structure and all documents concerned with such issues as
academic freedom, responsibility and tenure, institutional policies and procedures,
sabbaticals and leaves, and the Faculty Senate Constitution. It shall also nominate
members for the ad hoc committee that recommends to the President of the University the
University Faculty to receive teaching awards at Commencement.
- Identify the issues that your Committee can or should be addressing during each of the
next five years in order to help the University of Tulsa become a top 50 institution.
- Which of those issues should your Committee work on during the coming year?
- Are there specific outcomes or goals that your Committee can or should attempt to
achieve this year? What are they?
- Please develop a work plan that your Committee can adopt for the coming year.
- The Committee is also charged with completing the review of the University Sexual
Harassment Policy.
IV - Charges for the Financial Review Committee:
Standing Charge: The Financial Review Committee will meet with the administration
and the trustees, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee and the
Chair of the Audit Subcommittee of the Board of Trustees, to review the financial status
of the University. Meeting discussions are to include but not be limited to a confidential
discussion of the annual audit and the auditors findings regarding the internal
control structure of the University, and the budget policies for the coming year approved
by the Finance Committee.
V - Charges for the Library Committee:
Standing Charge: the Library Committee shall concern itself with all phases of the
University Libraries.
- Identify the issues that your Committee can or should be addressing during each of the
next five years in order to help the University of Tulsa become a top 50 institution.
- Which of those issues should your Committee work on during the coming year?
- Are there specific outcomes or goals that your Committee can or should attempt to
achieve this year? What are they?
- Please develop a work plan that your Committee can adopt for the coming year.
VI - Charges for the Academic Computing Committee:
Standing Charge: the Academic Computing Committee shall concern itself with all phases
of academic computing.
- Identify the issues that your Committee can or should be addressing during each of the
next five years in order to help the University of Tulsa become a top 50 institution.
- Which of those issues should your Committee work on during the coming year?
- Are there specific outcomes or goals that your Committee can or should attempt to
achieve this year? What are they?
- Please develop a work plan that your Committee can adopt for the coming year.
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