Background to the Charge

The UUCC is the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

The UUCC shall be composed of one full-time faculty member from each college (chosen annually by each college’s curriculum committee), the Associate Dean in charge of undergraduate programs from each respective college, one faculty-member-at-large from the full-time faculty (appointed by the Senate Agenda Committee), one representative from the Student Government Association, and non-voting members from the Registrar’s Office and the Library. The Chair of the UUCC shall be the Provost, or their designee. The Chair will vote only in the event of a tie.

The UUCC is charged by the Faculty Senate to “consider and make recommendations to the Senate concerning any proposals for undergraduate curriculum changes.” The UUCC is “the Senate’s designee in considering interdepartmental and inter-college disputes arising from matters concerning courses or programs offered or proposed.”

Committee Charge

UUCC-Bylaws

Committee Charge

The Graduate Council is a sub-committee of the Faculty Senate established to formulate, review, and recommend for adoption general academic policies and regulations for the creation and governance of graduate programs at Northeastern University.

Graduate-Council-Bylaws-June-2019.pdf

Background to the Charge

1. The Committee will maintain regular communications with University-wide planning committees;
2. The Committee shall undertake questions concerning enrollment management policy, admission goals and standards, and policy regarding recruitment and retention of students; and
3. The Committee shall prepare annual recommendations concerning improvements in admission standards, recruitment practices, enrollment management practices, and related areas.

Committee Charge

1. In collaboration with the Offices of the Provost and the Chancellor, the EAPC shall monitor the experience of N.U.in students and other group transfer program students as they integrate into their cohorts on the Boston campus and, if warranted, make recommendations for improving policies and practices for the group transfer programs.
2. In collaboration with the Registrar’s Office and other appropriate groups, the EAPC shall recommend best practices for defining and providing access to PlusOne program requirements.
3. In collaboration with the PhD Network and other appropriate groups, the EAPC shall review the infrastructure and support systems for admission and enrollment of international graduate students and recommend best practices.

Background to the Charge

This Committee is concerned with the rights and status of faculty personnel, including standards of tenure, promotion, and advancement for University faculty; and questions of professional development, academic freedom, and economic welfare.

Committee Charge

1. The FDC shall evaluate and, if necessary, revise and/or recalibrate the TRACE instrument, including consideration of customized TRACE surveys for online courses, labs, DOCs, etc.
2. The FDC shall make recommendations on optimal administration of TRACE and of NUPath survey questions. The Office of the Chancellor should be consulted about NUPath survey logistics.
3. These recommendations should be made before February 2020 so that any revisions can be used in Spring 2020. If appropriate, the FDC could recommend addition of SGA-suggested diversity/inclusion queries to the TRACE survey starting in Fall 2019, with a report deadline of October 16, 2019.

Background to the Charge

According to the Faculty Senate Bylaws, the Financial Affairs Committee is a standing committee of the Faculty Senate charged with two general functions:

1. This Committee is concerned with all questions related to financial affairs of the University, including institutional surveys, reviews and recommendations on budgeting, and financial policies of the University.
2. This Committee shall prepare annual recommendations for the improvement of faculty salaries and fringe benefits.

Committee Charge

1. The FAC, in collaboration with the FTNTTFC, shall explore sources of more granular match-mate data for FTNTT faculty than is currently available to Northeastern’s faculty cohort.
2. The FAC shall examine the total faculty compensation, given the yearly increases in the cost of benefits (especially health insurance), in comparison to salary raises.
3. Based upon the findings in charge 2 and a review of match-mate institutions, FAC is requested to make recommendations for merit raises for full time faculty at the University by December, 2019.
4. The FAC shall review the draft institutional base salary policy and, if appropriate, make recommendations.

Background to the Charge

1. This Committee oversees and receives for review evaluations of the Provost, academic deans and Unit chairpersons. These evaluations are conducted on a regular schedule, typically every three years. The timetable for such evaluations shall be maintained by the Office of the Provost and shall be provided annually to the Committee. Evaluations are performed in accordance to rules and procedures passed by the Faculty Senate on December 2, 2009 and approved by the Provost on December 11, 2009.
2. This Committee appoints the faculty members who serve on the administrator evaluation teams, develops and provides evaluation guidelines, materials, and regulations for the teams, sets evaluation schedules and deadlines for the reports, reviews the outcomes, and submits the reports to the Senate Agenda Committee for final review and appropriate distribution.
3. Based on its reviews, the Committee may also make recommendations to the Senate Agenda Committee, to the Provost, or to appropriate Vice Presidents on changes in procedures and/or evaluation instruments as deemed necessary.

Committee Charge

Sub-Committees

Sub-committee for Raj Echambady, Dean, DMBS:                                                John Portz (CSSH) , Carey Rappaport (COE), James Monaghan (COS)

Sub-committee for Elizabeth Hudson, Dean, CAMD:                                        Ray Booth (BCHS/COS), Jane Saczynski (BCHS), Balazs Szelenyi (CPS)

Sub-committee for Mary Loeffelholz, Dean, CPS:                                             George Adams (COE), Arun Bansil (COS), Heather Brenhouse (COS)

Sub-committee for Jack Reynolds, Dean, BCHS /School of Pharmacy:    Jane Amidon (CAMD), Robert McOwen (COS)

Sub-committee for Jonathan Kaufman, Director, CAMD / School of Journalism:                                                                                                                                Emily Mann (CSSH), Gabor Lippner (COS)

Sub-committee for Daniel Godfrey, Chair, Music Department:                    Alexa Carlson(BCHS),Tim Gagnon (DMSB)

Sub-committee for Jerome Hajjar, Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering:                                                                                                                                 Hilary Poriss (CAMD), Adrian Feiguin (COS)

Sub-committee for Lee Makowski, Chair, COE /Department of Bioengineering:                                                                                                                     Seth Cooper (Khoury), Aaron Block (CSSH)

Sub-committee for Mark Williams, Chair, COS /Department of Physics:                                                                                                                                 Anand Asthagiri (COE/Bioengineering), Andrew Myers (COE/Electrical)

Background to the Charge

1. This Committee shall be concerned with all questions relating to the development, maintenance, security, and availability of information systems and infrastructures.
2. The Committee periodically reviews information systems priorities, policies, resources, and operations and, based on these reviews, makes recommendations concerning activities that may improve operations or enhance the seamless flow of data and information to the communities that depend on it.
3. The Committee also makes recommendations to the Senate Agenda Committee, the administrative head of Information Systems, or to others in the administration (as appropriate) on matters concerning operations, resources, or policies.

Committee Charge

1. The ITPC shall review how university leadership can further improve involvement of future users during early planning, pilot testing, and product selection for major software products and IT services​ affecting teaching, research, and award management, including recommendation of ​a system where such suggestions are collected and shared with ITPC, IT staff, and university leadership​.
2. The ITPC shall review the outcomes of the CrashPlan ​backup service​ pilot program, including tradeoffs between cost and functionality. The process of evaluation and decision-making should involve input from a representative group of potential end-users from all colleges.

Background to the Charge

The Committee will review and assess the direction and implementation of the University’s research mission, advocate for its needs, review periodically and make recommendations on its research resources, infrastructures, and policies, serve as a research “ombuds-body” to address structural impediments and faculty complaints, and work with the Provost, the Senior Vice President for Administration & Finance, the Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement, and the President to insure the best possible environment for research and scholarship.

Committee Charge

The RPOC shall review NU-RES and Accounts Payable pre-award and post-award processes to identify how they can be made more efficient and more visible to faculty to better serve faculty and their funders.  In particular, the following areas should be examined:

1. Expedited contract approval
2. Expedited Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
3. Expedited issuing of purchase orders and possible ways to decrease the number of purchase orders needed
4. Future phases of ePAWs that incorporate the ability to track expenditures on existing research accounts
5. Systems to make invoicing on grants more timely and transparent
6. Streamlined and effective communication between NU-RES and faculty investigators and between Accounts Payable and administrative staff

Background to the Charge

This Committee consists of seven full-time faculty members from across the University who collectively utilize the range of Library/Information Collaboration resources and services. In addition, the Dean of the University Libraries/Vice Provost for Information Collaboration shall serve as an ex officio member. To facilitate continuity of policies and responsiveness to faculty needs with respect to information resources, delivery, and utilization across the University, the Committee shall establish continuing liaison with the Senate’s Standing Academic Policy, Information Technology Policy, and Research Policy Oversight Committees.

The Committee shall be concerned with policy issues involving strategic planning and infrastructure/resource adequacy to ensure broad, deep, and maximally available sources of scholarly information for the entire Northeastern community, and to guide services around the creation of new knowledge by that community. The Committee shall assess information resources within and beyond the library system and shall review and recommend services that aid in the full lifecycle of student and faculty learning, research, and publication. The committee shall also consider and recommend new platforms and mechanisms that forge new collaborations and discoveries, especially across the colleges, schools, and campuses of the university.

Background to the Charge

According to Faculty Senate legislation for Standing Committees, the Full-time Non-tenure-track Faculty is to be charged with reviewing and making recommendations on matters affecting this population of the Northeastern University community.

Committee Charge

1. The FTNTTFC shall follow up on professional development support, including one-term paid leaves.
2. The FTNTTFC shall recommend best practices for FTNTT promotion processes at the departmental and college level.
3. In collaboration with FAC, the FTNTTFC shall follow up on more granular match-mate data.

Background to the Charge

1. The Committee shall be concerned with questions of basic academic and research policy on an institutional level. Items to be dealt with should concern teaching loads, research procedures, academic requirements, classroom instruction, and all matters that pertain to classroom and laboratory activities.

2. The Committee shall also consider any academic matter or proposed program brought before the Senate that deals with relationships between the Colleges or involves more than one College.

Committee Charge

1. The APC shall review options for multiple ways of evaluating teaching and make recommendations on best practices.
2. The APC shall re-evaluate and, if necessary, revise and/or recalibrate the purposes for which TRACE and other teaching evaluations are used. The purposes for TRACE were previously considered to include: (a) Accurately record and effectively disseminate student satisfaction with their educational experiences at Northeastern University. In addition, an enhanced sense of student involvement in evaluation may contribute to the desirable goal of having students take some responsibility in the long-term for the quality of their education; (b) Provide assessment information that will promote faculty development; and (c) Provide peer and administrative evaluators with useful information as they consider faculty merit, tenure and promotion.
3. In collaboration with the Provost’s Office, the APC shall provide a review of the effectiveness of workload policy implementation (e.g., whether all units filed a policy, whether all units executed the policy as filed, whether the policies impacted the associated merit reviews).

Committee Charge

This Ad hoc committee will review emeritus faculty benefits at peer institutions and, if appropriate, make recommendations for Northeastern’s emeritus faculty benefits.