STANDING
Benefits
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Salaries, health, education and other benefits including childcare
- Chair: Donna Jurdy - d-jurdy@northwestern.edu
Budget
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Overall allocation of resources, yearly budget priorities
- Chair: Helen Thompson - hthompson@northwestern.edu
Committee on Cause
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Academic integrity, disciplinary issues, resolve disputes between and among faculty and administrators
- Membership created only when needed
- Chair: Hank Seifert - h-seifert@northwestern.edu
Educational Affairs
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Broad scope of education, resources for undergraduate education/research training, intercollegiate athletics and its role in education, use of adjuncts to teach undergraduate courses, the proliferation of professional masters programs, on-line teaching
- Chair: Susan Lee- s-lee3@northwestern.edu
Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
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Oversight of new Ombudsperson program, NU conflict of interest issues report
- Chair: Wesley Roth Burghardt - w-burghardt@northwestern.edu
Governance
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Establish and revise senate rules, propose changes to bylaws, develop bylaws and rules for the Faculty Appeals Panel
- Chair: Paul Arntson - p-arntson@northwestern.edu
Non-tenure
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Description coming soon.....
- Chair: Christiane Rey - c-rey@northwestern.edu
Research Affairs
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Handle concerns about IRB, relations with other educational and research institutions
- Chair: Demetrios (Jim) Kyriacou - d-kyriacou@northwestern.edu
Secure Faculty Survey
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Develop, implement, evaluate biennially (every two years) faculty survey
- Chair: Malcolm MacIver - maciver@northwestern.edu
Social Responsibility
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Living Wage proposals, investment ethics
- Chair: Mary E Pattillo - m-pattillo@northwestern.edu
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Executive Committee
- Staff committees, periodically meet with central administration, approve substitute members and substitute chairs (in cases of illness or faculty leaves of absence), function as a rapid-reaction Senate
- Consists of Senate Chair and Vice Chair and all chairs of standing committees
- Chair: Babette Sanders- b-sanders2@northwestern.edu
