Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC)

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The Faculty Affairs Committee shall address matters of faculty responsibilities and rights in teaching, research, and service. In particular, the Committee shall: make recommendations in regard to a comprehensive and continuing system to evaluate faculty while at the same time giving proper protection to the rights of individuals. The Committee shall be responsible for policy relating to the professional rights and responsibilities of faculty members. It shall periodically review the Professional Rights and Duties of Faculty Members and Roles and Professional Duties of Department Chairs document, and recommend to the Assembly appropriate revisions. The Committee shall monitor the activities of the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, the Research and Innovation Office, and the Privilege and Tenure Committee of the Faculty Council, and their functional successors, as well as any grievance procedures that concern faculty, and make appropriate recommendations to the Assembly on matters of policy relating to the work of these committees.

Meetings

The FAC generally meets monthly for one hour in fall and spring semesters.

Current Committee Topics

The committee will be looking at salary adjustment practices as part of the second phase of the salary equity process, and is likely to include unit-level merit evaluation processes. Additionally members will continue to track academic freedom issues on campus and defend faculty rights and interests.

Annual Committee Reports

Committee Chair

Name	Contact Information
Steve Vanderheiden Department Representative • FAC Chair • FAC Representative: BFA • Professor Political Science	Email

BFA Representatives

Name	Contact Information
Markus Pflaum At Large Representative • FAC Representative: BFA • GAC Co-Chair • Professor Mathematics	Email
Steve Vanderheiden Department Representative • FAC Chair • FAC Representative: BFA • Professor Political Science	Email

A&S Representatives

Name	Contact Information
Jill Harrison FAC Representative: A&S • Associate Professor Geography • Environmental Studies	Email
Andrew Martin FAC Representative: A&S • Professor Physics	Email
Hillary Potter FAC Representative: A&S • Professor Women and Gender Studies	Email

Other Units (Non-A&S) Representatives

Name	Contact Information
Melissa Cantrell At Large Representative: Other Units • FAC Representative: Other Units • Assistant Professor University Libraries	Email
Dejun "Tony" Kong At-Large Representative • DIVC Representative: Other Units • FAC Representative: Other Units • Associate Professor Leeds School of Business	Email
Kelly Parkes Unit Representative • FAC Representative: Other Units College of Music	Email

Faculty Resource Members

Name	Contact Information
Aya Gruber FAC Resource • Professor Colorado Law School	Email
Ahmed White FAC Faculty Resource Colorado Law School	Email

Campus & Administration Liaisons

Name	Contact Information
Michele Moses Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs • AAC Administration Liaison • FAC Administration Liaison • TFAC Administration Liaison Office of Faculty Affairs	Email

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