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Senate Committees
Parliamentary Procedures
Senate Concerns
Awards
Senate Staff
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This Academic Senate committee is responsible for peer-review in the career advancement process.
What is CAP? (Committee on Academic Personnel)
100
These documents serve as the record of the formal actions and final decisions of Academic Senate committees.
What are minutes?
100
The Committees on Academic Planning and Budget and the Committee on Faculty Welfare are continuing their review and comment to proposed changes to this significant system affecting all faculty as they decide to enter or leave the UC system.
What are Post-Employment Benefits (PEB) or the University of California Retirement Plan (UCRP)?
100
In 1951, the San Francisco Division created this award to recognize and celebrate excellence in teaching on the UCSF campus. This award is of particular honor as it is a recognition of excellent faculty by their faculty peers.
What is The Distinction In Teaching Award(s)?
100
This Academic Senate staff member comes from the land where all the women are strong and all the children are above average.
Who is Kate Dargan?
200
This Academic Senate committee reviews and evaluates diversity initiatives at the division and the system-wide level, evaluates progress of recruitment of underrepresented minorities, and is charged with reviewing proposals for the Faculty Development Awards.
What is the Committee on Equal Opportunity?
200
Amendments or modifications to school or committee bylaws must first be vetted through this Academic Senate committee.
What is the Committee on Rules & Jurisdiction?
200
These are the three faculty series which convey membership into the Academic Senate.
What are Professor (Ladder Rank), Professor In Residence, and Professor of Clinical X?
200
In 2009, in cooperation with the Vice Provost Academic Affairs, CAP created this award to recognize the excellent tutelage and stewardship of senior UCSF faculty toward junior UCSF faculty.
What is the Distinction In Mentoring Award(s)?
200
This Academic Senate staff member also teaches a cooking class.
Who is Shilpa Patel?
300
This Committee's membership includes the chair of every standing committee of the division, and meets every other month.
What is the Coordinating Committee?
300
Unless otherwise stated in the bylaws, this is how many members of a committee comprise a quorum.
What is "half of the total, plus one?"
300
Access to this Committee for the address of faculty grievances is a benefit of Senate membership.
What is the Committee on Privilege and Tenure?
300
Recent recipients of this Academic Senate award include Ken Dill and Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn.
What is the Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture?
300
This Academic Senate staff member has the original gold record of Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley P.T.A." hanging on the wall at home.
Who is Wilson Hardcastle?
400
This Committee addresses campus-wide matters regarding the establishment and dis-establishment of curricula, schools, institutes, departments and even administrative policies involving questions of instruction and education.
What is the Committee on Educational Policy?
400
True or False: A quorum is required for a committee to discuss new business.
What is false? A quorum is only necessary for formal actions. Committees may discuss old and new items without a quorum present, but may not vote on or take any formal actions.
400
The faculty control of academic programs and classes is managed by this Academic Senate committee, which has recently completed its migration to a fully-electronic system.
What is the Committee on Courses of Instruction (COCOI)?
400
The Committee on Research (COR) has conveyed this honor to Homer Boushey for his work on asthma and the environment and to Bernie Lo for his work on ethics in health care.
What is the Distinguished Clinical Research Lecture? The 2010 recipient of the DCRL will be Dr. Stephen Hulley of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
400
This Academic Senate staff member is a performing Lindy Hop dancer.
Who is Alison Cleaver?
500
This Academic Senate committee was created on the UCSF campus to give voice to faculty concerns regarding patient care and the management of patient care services.
What is the Clinical Affairs Committee (CAC)?
500
By the chair stating that these documents are approved as read or corrected, these documents may be approved by general consent and without a vote by the committee.
What are minutes?
500
In response to proposed subscription increases related to the ongoing "serials crisis," the UCSF Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (COLASC) is leading the charge with the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC) and the California Digital Library (CDL) in negotiations and possible boycott of this publishing group?
What is Nature?
500
For the first time, this year the Committee on Research will convey this award recognizing excellence in research resulting in advancements from bench to bedside.
What is the Distinguished Translational Research Lecture?
500
This Academic Senate staff member speaks French and Arabic.
Who is Heather Alden?