Faculty Committees and Representatives

2012-2013 Faculty Committees and Representatives

The ILS Department has Standing Committees and Select Committees when appropriate. The Standing Committees are:

  1. 1.    Department Evaluation Committee (DEC);
  2. 2.    Department Curriculum Committee (DCC);
  3. 3.    Department Graduate Admissions Committee (DGAC);
  4. 4.    Department Scholarship Committee (DSC);
  5. 5.    Department Personnel Committee (DPC);
  6. 6.    Department Sabbatical Leave Committee (DSLC).

Standing Committees will elect their own chairpersons and keep written minutes, which, except for the DEC, shall be filed in the Department Office within one (1) week of approval unless otherwise stated in this document.  Only tenured faculty may serve on the Department Evaluation Committee, the Department Sabbatical Leave Committee and the Department Personnel Committee. Each Committee shall determine its own schedule after an initial meeting no later than two (2) weeks after the beginning of each semester. 

Select Committees are those created for a specific purpose and membership may beby invitation from or appointment by the Department Chairperson. 

In addition, the Department has representatives to the following School or University committed:

  1. 1.    Faculty Senate
  2. 2.    Graduate Council
  3. 3.    Undergraduate Curriculum Forum (UCF)
  4. 4.    School of Education (SOE) Unit Assessment Board (UAB)

     

Current membership and representatives


Department Evaluation Committee (DEC)


Membership: three (3) tenured members, elected by the Department in the spring semester, with staggered terms of three years. Terms begin the Fall semester following election

Duties: The duties of the DEC are prescribed in the current Promotion, Tenure, Renewal and Professional Assessment Procedures for Faculty (i.e., Collective Bargaining Agreement, Faculty Senate Resolutions.).  The DEC process shall follow all applicable rules and codes. 

2012-2015 term: Eino Sierpe

2011-2014 term: Elsie Okobi

2010-2013 term: James Kusack

2012-2013 Hardship DEC: Mary Brown

Department Curriculum Committee (DCC)


Membership: Department faculty who request to be members (minimum of 5).  Membership is for an academic year

Duties: Regular reviews and implementation of curriculum development for each program area of the Department. Provide adjunct faculty with standardized syllabi for their assigned courses.

 Full-time faculty: Mary Brown (committee chair), Yunseon Choi, Chang Suk Kim, Yan Quan Liu, Elsie Okobi, Josephine Sche, Eino Sierpe

Part-time Faculty: Kelly Barrick, Stephanie Shteriman, Priscilla Ubysz

Buley Library Representative: David Feinmark

Graduate Student Representatives: Miguel Garcia, Carol Geary (distance education representative), Michael Riordan, Naomi Lee Toftness

Undergraduate Student Representative: [tba]

Graduate Alumni Representatives: Will Baker, MLS '11; Rolando Milian, MLS '11

State Library Representative: Mary Engels

Department Graduate Admissions Committee (DGAC)


Membership: Three (3) faculty members appointed by the Department Chairperson for one academic year.

Duties: Screening applicants for admission to the graduate programs of the Department, and recommending admissions policy. 

Member 1: Mary Brown (committee chair)

Member 2: Jim Kusack

Member 3: Yunseon Choi

Department Scholarship Committee (DSC)


Membership: Three (3) faculty members who volunteer to serve for one academic year.

Duties: Recommending qualified students for scholarships.

Member 1: Jim Kusack (committee chair)

Member 2: Eino Sierpe

Member 3: Yunseon Choi 

Department Personnel Committee (DPC)


Membership: Three (3)  faculty members elected to serve three-year staggered terms

Duties: Stated in the Faculty Senate Chairperson's Document. 

2012-2015 term: vaccant

2011-2014 term: Hak Joon Kim

2010-2013 term: Mary Brown

Department Sabbatical Leave Committee (DSLC)


Membership: Three (3) tenured faculty members elected to serve three-year staggered terms.

Duties: Prescribed in the current Sabbatical Leave Procedures for Faculty (i.e., Collective Bargaining Agreement, Faculty Senate Resolutions). The DSLC process shall follow all applicable rules and codes.

2012-2015 term: Eino Sierpe

2011-2014 term: Elsie Okobi

2010-2013 term: James Kusack

Faculty Senate Representative
 

2011-2014 term: Elsie Okobi 

Graduate Council Representatives

2012-2015 term: Eino Sierpe

2011-2014 term: Yan Quan Liu

2010-2013 term: Arlene Bielefield

2009-2012 term: Elsie Okobi 

Undergraduate Curriculum Forum (UCF) Representative

2012-2013 Representative: Yunseon Choi

Unit Assessment Board (UAB) Representative

 
2012-2013 Representative: Yunseon Choi 

[Descriptions from Bylaws of the Department of Information and Library Science. Approved unanimously by ILS Faculty on Oct. 11, 2007.]

 

Last updated: March 9, 2013