Committee and Working Group
Assignments
2007-2008
Standing
committees and working groups provide an opportunity for faculty to have input
and provide leadership for the
Please
review the charge and composition to the committee and working group.
Each committee and working group is also
expected to turn in an annual report that includes a summary of accomplishments
as well as recommendations for issues to be addressed by subsequent committees. This report is due by May 15, 2007.
Committees and working groups are encouraged to keep the faculty informed of
their activities through reports at faculty meetings. Committee chairs should
notify the Dean when they want to be put on the agenda for a faculty meeting.
Committees
Instructional Technology Oversight Committee
Practicum and
Internship Experiences
Promotion and Tenure
Committee
Faculty Advisors for
Student Organizations
Jan
Brakefield
Mary
Liz Curtner-Smith
Shirley
Foster
Olivia
Kendrick
Marcy
Koontz
Melanie
Crane, President, Phi Upsilon Omicron
Purpose: Foster an environment that stimulates
strong professional programs and a commitment to instruction and academic
advising. Monitor proposed curriculum changes within the College. Work with
individual department curriculum committees as needed as they make curriculum
changes to their professional programs.
Review and make recommendations related to policies involving academic
issues. Serve as the textbook selection committee and review courses for
Interim term.
Charge: Explore measures to enhance student
retention and completion of academic program requirements.
Review requirements for the general studies
undergraduate major.
Review academic
policies and recommend needed changes.
Review all course
proposals including proposals for Interim and recommend action to the
dean. Advise
departments as plans to develop electronic portfolios unfold.
Curriculum Sub-Committees
Advising
To
evaluate and make recommendations regarding advising in the College.
Olivia Kendrick, Chair
Jeri Zemke
Karen Carpenter
Courtney McGahey
John Peaslee
Vicki Peeples
Paula Robinson
Andrea Wilson
Paula Robinson, Chair
Jan Brakefield
Carmen Hudson
Olivia Kendrick
Michelle Lee
Ellen Pate
Vicki Peeples
Crawford Barnes, President, HES
Purpose: Foster an environment that is conducive
to attracting academically talented students and to assisting all students as
they seek to achieve their full potential in the College.
Charge: Assist with the recruitment and
retention of students, review recruitment materials and propose changes, work
with student organizations, respond to the concerns of students.
Revise transfer
materials for community colleges.
Work with student
organizations to welcome new students into the College.
Develop a strong
working relationship with the
Develop a method of
informing appropriate individuals who come to campus to interview prospective
employees about the qualifications of graduates in the
Sub-Committee
Learning Communities
Vicki
Peeples, Chair
Jan
Brakefield
Review
the Harris Living-Learning Community and make recommendations regarding a next
phase of implementation of living-learning communities.
Mohamed Abdel Ghany
Maria Hernandez-Reif
Erika Jordan, Graduate Student
Jeannine Lawrence
Yasmin Neggers
Amanda Thompson
Michelle Darst, Graduate Student
Purpose: Foster
an environment that stimulates research and creative activity within the
College.
Charge: Propose
ways to stimulate involvement of undergraduates in research and creative
activity within the College.
Facilitate
the sharing of research within the College including a research page on the
CHES website.
Plan programs for faculty that will increase awareness of
opportunities for interdisciplinary research on campus and plan programs that
will increase awareness of services on campus that can facilitate research
productivity.
Explore the desirability of developing a special
edition of the newsletter dedicated to faculty research and develop text if
appropriate.
Continue to review proposals for the Mary A.
Crenshaw Award.
Ken
Wright, Chair
Mike
Perko
Linda
Knol
Jason
Scofield
Nick
Stinnett
Virginia
Wimberley
Sherwood
Burns and Carolyn Williams, Graduate Student
Purpose: Monitor curricula and policies related
to graduate programs in the College. Develop a handbook for graduate students.
Propose policies relating to the assignment of instructional responsibilities
to graduate students. Recommend appropriate changes in policy, course, and
curriculum that relate specifically to graduate programs. Review and recommend faculty for appointments
to the Graduate Faculty. Select nominees from the college for outstanding
thesis, outstanding research and outstanding teaching assistants.
Charge: Develop a plan for recruitment of
graduate students.
Review and recommend individuals for Graduate
Faculty appointment.
Review and make
recommendations regarding the current requirement for Plan II students to take
HES 509.
Review the Graduate
Dean’s concerns regarding ug/graduate courses and
ensure that course offerings in the College are appropriate.
Develop a proposal for
graduate recruitment funds; identify other recruitment strategies that should
be implemented; coordinate activities at Graduate and Professional School Day;
plan activities for graduate students throughout the year as appropriate;
Develop a Graduate
Handbook.
Monitor the use of the
interdisciplinary doctoral program as a means of strengthening the College's
ability to offer doctoral level work.
Determine when the
College is prepared to begin to develop an additional doctoral program within
the College.
Review and recommend
action on new courses or policies, and respond to the needs of the graduate
students.
Homecoming
Committee
Mildred Switzer
Marianne Tipton
Jan Brakefield, Chair
Reuben Cook
Martha Cook
Alvin Niuh
Beverly Kissinger
Robin Hollingsworth
Mike Perko
Paula Robinson
Mildred Switzer
Sally Edwards
Trisha Collins, President of Ambassadors
Purpose: Provide overall direction for the
public relations effort of the College to enhance the image, tradition, and
pride of CHES.
Charge: Review options for communicating with
alumni including the possibility of an e-newsletter and/or a print newsletter.
As needed, plan an
Executive-in-Residence and an Alumnus-in-Residence event during the academic
year.
Identify activities in
the College that should be featured in the print media.
In cooperation with the
recruitment and retention working group, review and make recommendations
regarding recruitment materials.
Recruitment Materials Update
Suzanne Henson, Chair
Karen Carpenter
Courtney McGahey
Casey Faulkner
Brian Gordon
Linda Enders
Amy Baker-Parton
Jan
Brakefield, Chair
Kim
Boyle
Casey
Faulkner
Linda
Enders
Brian
Gordon
Suzanne
Henson
Carmen
Hudson
Courtney
McGahey
Amy
Baker-Parton
Charge: Assist with the recruitment of
students by reviewing and making recommendations regarding recruitment
activities and all written and web-based recruitment materials. Develop ways to facilitate the recruitment of
students from community colleges. Develop ways for HES alumni to be involved in
recruitment.
Mike
Perko, Chair
Carroll
Tingle
Roy
Maize
Olivia
Kendrick
Jason
Blumenthal
Eve
Pentecost
Mike
Perko
Anna
McFadden
Brian
Gordon
Sonya
Dunkin
Caroline
Fulmer
Charge: Explore methods for maximizing the use
of technology in the delivery of CHES programs and services.
Recommend professional
development activities to expand the use of technology by faculty in the
College.
Explore methods of
expanding distance education opportunities for faculty in the College.
To facilitate the sharing of ideas regarding
appropriate pedagogy’s of distance education.
Marcy Koontz
(CTD)
Andy Harcrow
(HS)
Jason
Blumenthal (NHM)
Jan
Brakefield (CSM)
Vicki
Peeples (HDFS)
Amy
Baker-Parton, Chair
Jan
Brakefield
Carolyn Callis
Carroll
Tingle
Paula
Robinson
Carmen
Hudson
Suzanne
Henson
Deidre
Leaver Dunn
Shirley
Foster
Roy Maize
Promotion and Tenure Committee
2007-2009
Maria
Hernandez-Reif (HDFS)
Mary Liz Curtner-Smith (Member at Large)
2006-2008
Mohamed Abdel-Ghany (CSM)
Lori Turner (HS)
Virginia Wimberly (CTD)
Ken Wright (Member at Large)
Purpose: Review dossiers and make
recommendations concerning promotion, tenure, and probationary review using the
criteria outlined in the Faculty Handbook. Recommend any changes that are
needed in the procedures followed by the
2006-2007
Linda Enders
Roy Maize
Deidre Leaver Dunn
Charge: Inform the faculty of relevant issues
before the Faculty Senate and represent the Faculty in the College on these
issues.
2006-2008
Ken Wright
Olivia Kendrick, Alternate
Charge: Inform the faculty of relevant issues
before the Graduate Council and represent the faculty in the College on these
issues.
Library
Representative Jan Brakefield
United
Way Representative Reuben Cook
Affirmative
Action Coordinator Olivia Kendrick
American
Disabilities Act Coordinator Olivia Kendrick
Sexual Harassment Prevention Olivia Kendrick
Academic Misconduct Olivia Kendrick
HES Representative to Staff Assembly Karen Carpenter
Faculty
Advisors for Student Organizations
Ambassadors Jan
Brakefield & Kerry Brothers
Council of Presidents Jan
Brakefield & Kerry Brothers
ASID Beverly
Kissinger
ASTA Deidre
Leaver-Dunn
Capstone Financial
Planning Association Caroline
Fulmer
Eta Sigma Gamma (Health Honorary)
HARACA (Hotel,
Restaurant, and Convention Association) Kim
Boyle
Capstone Association
for Young Children Nancy
Stinnett
Mable Adams Society Alvin
Niuh
Fashion, Incorporated Becky
Blair
Phi Upsilon Omicron Alvin
Niuh
SDA (Student Dietetic
Association) Suzanne
Henson
Society of Consumer
Affairs Professionals Courtney
McGahey
In Business (SOCAP)
ETA Sigma Delta Roy Maize