Faculty Advisory Council Report

The Faculty Advisory Council (FAC), made up of 25–30 elected faculty from all colleges, recommends policy changes to the administration . In 2021, college representative Brian Jackson completed his dedicated service to the FAC . This fall, Emron Esplin and Rob Martinsen join Julie Allen, Jamie Horrocks, and Laura Catharine Smith as our College representatives . Please contact any of these representatives about student and faculty issues you would like the FAC to consider . This year the FAC gave the AVP Council thirteen proposals on the following topics: adjunct representation on the FAC, diversity and inclusion, childcare, birth control (for non-family planning reasons), sustainability, policy review practices, teaching evaluations, students of other faiths, and more . The FAC also produced documents relating to campus sustainability, tuition benefits for children of faculty and staff, and impacts of the new out-of-state work policy . FAC members participated in reviews of policies relating to final exams, clubs, surveys on campus, background checks for the protection of minors visiting campus, scholarly work, and breastfeeding facilities . FAC co-chairs Eva Witesman and Sarah Coyne will make available a summary of 2020–21 initiatives in the dean’s office, or you can access the full report by scanning this code: