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Standing Committees & Councils

Faculty and Staff Resources

The standing committees and councils within the College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts strive to enhance support for students in the college while also creating a welcoming and encouraging environment where faculty, staff and students can make their voices heard.

Standing Committees & Councils

The CHSSA Leadership Council provides the dean with a greater understanding of the needs and views of CHSSA faculty and informs the dean on program updates. The Council is composed of the department chair or the director from each department or unit in the college, as well as associate and assistant deans in the college who serve as ex-officio members. In absence of the chair, an alternate may participate. The Council meets monthly during the academic year with the associate deans, dean and representatives from the dean’s office staff. Council members may suggest items for the agenda, present items for future discussion, and request speakers to be invited. They strategize on college vision and planning from informed conversations with their faculty, staff, and students.

2023-2024

The College Curriculum Committee reviews all changes, additions, and deletions to the curriculum. It ensures that all course, certification and degree proposals which constitute new or revised offerings be reviewed for clarity, coherence, potential for collaboration and avoidance of duplication. The committee consists of 11 faculty members appointed by the Associate Dean for Curriculum, who is the 12th member of the committee.

Members serve for two years and are chosen from across the disciplines. The committee meets at least once a month from August to April. Curriculum changes are forwarded to the committee from the department chairs or program directors.

The committee reports its recommendations to the dean and interfaces directly with the University Curriculum Committee, the University Studies Advisory Committee, the Graduate Council, the Office of the Registrar and Academic Affairs to ensure that all submissions are in compliance with submission requirements.

2023-2024 membership of this committee is forthcoming.

The CHSSA Access, Equity, and Diversity Committee supports the college’s goal of developing an excellent and diverse body of faculty, staff and students. Its scope is to propose and implement activities that explicitly address access and equity issues and to enhance the college’s ability to be a welcoming, supportive, and pluralistic environment in which all faculty, staff and students thrive. The committee consists of faculty and staff broadly representing all areas of the college, two students majoring in a CHSSA program, and a co-chair (ex-officio) from CHSSA Senior Leadership, appointed by the Dean. The committee reports its recommendations to the dean and interfaces directly with Human Resources, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Global Partnerships of International Education as necessary.

2023-2024 Membership 

Michael Maume - Co-Chair, International Studies

Ewa Matyczyk - Art and Art History

Katie Peel - English

Addie Sayers China - English

Menaka Raguparan - Sociology and Criminology

Melissa Crowe - Creative Writing

Liz Timbs - History

Amrita Das - Co-Chair (ex-officio), World Languages and Cultures/CHSSA Dean's Office

Michaela Howells - Anthropology

Catherine Murphy - CHSSA Dean's Office

Mindi Miller - CHSSA Dean's Office

The Dean’s Student Leadership Council gives students in the College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts a forum to discuss college issues, raise concerns and express their ideas with one another and with the dean. It provides an opportunity for CHSSA students and the dean to come together to address areas for improvement and identify areas of potential.

Department chairs nominate students to be part of the council; each department is represented by up to three student council members. Students serve a one-year term and may continue upon dean’s office request. Department chairs nominate through an annual survey in early fall of the academic year.

Executive Board:
TBA, President
TBA, Vice-President
TBA, Secretary

2023-2024 membership of this council is forthcoming.

The Research Committee is responsible for overseeing scholarship awards in the College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts. Committee members review proposals and recommend to the Dean lists of faculty that meet the criteria for Faculty Research Reassignment, any CHSSA research awards brought before it. The Research Committee consists of five faculty members who previously have been recipients of the Faculty Research Reassignment Award or other significant research awards. Members are appointed by the Dean.  The Dean’s designee is the sixth ex-officio member and chair of the committee. Members are chosen from across the disciplines and serve for two years with either two or three rotating off annually.  The research committee also advises the Dean and the College on research matters of interest to faculty, including collaborations with the Research and Innovation Office, CSURF, and CHSSA’s own research communities.

Members for 2023-24:
Paul Townend Ex Officio, CHSSA Dean’s Office
Venkat Dhulipala, History
Julia Waity, Sociology/Criminology
Jeremy Tirrell, English
Andre Silva, Film Studies
Julia Morris, International Studies

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