2007-2008
Executive Committee
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Membership:
Martha Tingen, Vice Chair
Bill Andrews , Vice
Chair-elect
Richard Callan, Past Vice Chair
Pam
Cook, Secretary-Treasurer
Lynn Jaffe - Strategies and Responsibilities Committee Chair
Jack Yu - Faculty Governance Committee Chair
Dave Hill - Scholarship and Standards Committee Chair
Ricky Joseph, Allied Health Sciences
Philip Baker, Dentistry
Wendy Bollag, Graduate Studies
Darra Ballance,
Library
Vincent Robinson, Medicine
Jeannette Andrews, Nursing
John Hansford, SGA President
John Blalock, Parlimentarian
Dan Rahn,
President, ex-officio
- Composition: The Executive Committee shall be composed of a
Chair, Chair-elect, Past Chair, and Secretary-Treasurer, six faculty members of
the Academic Council and the President, ex-officio. The Chair-elect shall be a
faculty member elected by the General Faculty Assembly and shall become Chair the
following year. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be the Secretary-Treasurer of the Academic
Council. The Academic Council shall elect one person from each School's membership and the
Library of the Council to serve on the Committee. These six faculty members shall be
elected for a term of one year and they shall not serve more than three consecutive terms.
- Authority: The faculty is governed by the Academic Council.
The Executive Committee serves to execute decisions of the Council, to prepare the agenda
and propose resolutions to the Council, to appoint, subject to Council confirmation,
Committees, their Chairs, and members of the committees, and to execute between meetings
of the Academic Council, decisions for the orderly conduct of business of the MCG faculty.
Decisions of the Executive Committee are by majority vote.
- Responsibilities:
- The Executive Committee has broad powers directed at carrying out
the decisions and wishes of the Academic Council. The actions of the officers and the
composition and recommendation of the various committees are under the surveillance of the
Academic Council which in turn is answerable to the faculty.
- The Executive Committee shall:
- arrange the agenda for Academic Council meetings.
- appoint, subject to Academic Council confirmation, the chairs and
members of the standing and special committees. It shall appoint hearing committees in
cases of dismissal of faculty members in accordance with the Bylaws of the Board of
Regents.*
- prepare and submit reports on the work of the Academic Council to
the General Faculty Assembly, the Administration (President) of the university, and the
Chancellor at the end of each academic year and at such other times as the Committee or
General Faculty Assembly may find desirable.
- assist in implementing the actions of the General Faculty Assembly
and the Academic Council.
- serves as a channel through which any member of the General
Faculty Assembly may introduce matters for consideration by the Academic Council.
- receive and review reports submitted by any School of the
university which may be of concern or interest to any other faculty group or the
faculty-at-large and arrange for appropriate distribution.
- perform such other functions as may be given the Committee under
the provisions of the MCG Statutes.
*Bylaws of the Board of Regents, Article VI.
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