Committees
The following committees are appointed by and report to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Advisory to Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost
- Campus Awards and Honors Committee
This committee serves in an advisory role to assist with campus efforts to identify and nominate faculty scholars for prestigious awards and honors.
- Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure
The committee’s charge is to act in an advisory capacity to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and provost in matters of promotion and tenure for members of the faculty.
- Provost’s Council of Deans
The Provost’s Council of Deans meets regularly to discuss and formulate recommendations to the Provost on university-wide academic strategy, policies, budgeting and communications; to discuss areas of collaboration and synergy among the colleges; and to exchange ideas about leadership and management best practices. The COD is comprised of all deans and other invitees of the Provost, including the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Provost’s Cabinet.
Members
John Wilkin, Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost
Vikram Amar, College of Law
James D. Anderson, College of Education (Interim)
Jeffrey Brown, College of Business
Martin Camargo, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Interim)
Andreas Cangellaris, College of Engineering
Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, College of Media (Interim) and Graduate College
Peter Constable, College of Veterinary Medicine
Fritz Drasgow, School of Labor & Employment Relations
Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, Applied Health Sciences
Kathleen Harleman, College of Fine + Applied Arts (Acting)
Kimberlee Kidwell, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Wynne Korr, School of Social Work
King Li, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Allen Renear, School of Information Sciences
John Wilkin, University LibraryOther Attendees
William Bernhard, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Paul Ellinger, Vice Provost for Budget and Resource Planning
Vicky Gress, Executive Associate Provost for Budget and Resource Planning
Mark Henderson, Chief Information Officer
Reitu Mabokela, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Global Strategies
Peter Schiffer, Vice Chancellor for Research - Provost’s Undergraduate Advisory Board
Coming soon.
Budget and Resource Planning
- Budgeting Reform Steering Committee
This committee is charged with guiding the initiative to reform our approach to budgeting to serve our fundamental goal of excellence in all we do.
Committee Members
John Wilkin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, Chair
Matthew Ando, Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics
Jeff Brown, Dean, College of Business
Clare Crowston, Professor and Chair, Department of History
Barb Geissler, Executive Assistant Dean, College of Education
Michael LeRoy, Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Chair, Senate Budget Committee
Klara Nahrstedt, Professor of Computer Science, Director, Coordinated Science Laboratory
Paul Ellinger, Vice Provost for Budget and Resource Planning, ex-officio
Jamelle Sharpe, Professor of Law, Provost’s Fellow, ex-officioCampus Budget Advisory Task Force (CBATF)
The Budgeting Reform Steering Committee was formed as a result of the work of the Campus Budget Advisory Task Force (CBATF) and the recommendations made in its final report dated June 2016. Charged in November 2015, CBATF was an advisory body to the Chancellor and Provost, working with the Council of Deans and through shared governance with the Senate. CBATF’s initial focus was on fundamental questions surrounding the campus’s historic budget allocation model, the implications of continued declines in General Revenue Funds, and the size of the campus’s administrative functions.
Charge Letter 2015-16 (PDF)
CBATF Mid-year Update (February 2016) (PDF)
CBATF Final Report (June 2016) (PDF)
Provost’s Communication to Deans, Directors and Department Heads (July 2016) (PDF)Task Force Members
Matt Ando, Professor, Mathematics, Chair
Fouad Abd El Khalick, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Andrew Alleyne, Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Anne Barger, Clinical Professor, Pathobiology & Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Clare Crowston, Professor, History
Mitchell Dickey, President, Illinois Student Senate 2014-2016
Paul Ellinger, Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
John Lockmiller, Executive Assistant Dean, Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Melanie Loots, Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Nolan Miller, Professor, Finance
Silvina Montrul, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Valleri Robinson, Associate Professor, Theatre
Kim Shinew, Professor, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
Linda C. Smith, Professor, Library and Information Science
Mike Yao, Associate Professor, Advertising and Journalism
Vicky Gress, Executive Associate Provost for Budget and Resource Planning, ex officio - Campus Budget Oversight Committee (CBOC)
The Campus Budget Oversight Committee will take part in discussions about budget, resource allocation, and strategic planning for the academic units of the campus.
- Data Management Committee
This committee is charged with assessing university data resources and developing and implementing a plan to enhance university resources for data management.
Charge Letter 2016-17 (revised) (PDF)
Committee Members
Amy Edwards, Division of Management Information, Chair
Kelly Bridgewater, Office of Chief Information Officer
Jana Diesner, Information Sciences
Meghan Hazen, Office of the Registrar
Heidi Imker, Library Research and Publication
Joanne Kaczmarek, Library Archives
Melanie Loots, Office of Vice Chancellor for Research
Suzanne Rinehart, Provost’s Budget Office
Beth Scheid, Office of Chief Information Officer - Dean’s Budget Committee
Coming soon.
- Technology Services Rate and Funding Committee
Coming soon.
Capital Planning
- Facilities and Services Advisory Committee
This committee functions in an advisory capacity for the purpose of ensuring that the assigned missions, functions and tasks of the F&S organization and the delivery of respective products and services are consistent with the priorities of the university.
- Facilities and Services Rate and Funding Committee
Coming soon.
- Illinois Space Advisory Committee
This committee provides advice on instructional space utilization at the Urbana campus.
Diversity
- Committee on Access and Accommodations (CCAA)
The CCAA is charged with leading the campus effort to develop a comprehensive and actionable diversity strategy that includes attention to recruitment, training, education, research, communication, policy, and governance at campus and unit levels.
Charge Letter 2016-17 (PDF)
Committee Members
Julie Hengst, Chair
Mylinda Grander, Vice Chair
Keith Hays
M.T. Hudson
Kathleen Hug
JoAnn Jacoby
Katherine Johnson
Carl Lewis
Patricia Malik
Joe Minarik
Maureen Mosley Banks
Timothy Offenstein
Steve Parksons
Kathie Pound
Todd Short
Jimmy Sellas
James Shriner
Heather Wright
Medra Roberts-Southerland, ex-officio - Committee on Race and Ethnicity (CORE)
Committee Members
Ronald Bailey, Chair
Vacant, Vide Chair
Amira Al Mutairi
Ave Alvarado
David Chih
Janice Collins
Ivanhoe Favila
Gioconda Guerra Perez
Laura E. Hamilton
Jonathan Inda
Herbert Jones
M. Lydia Khuri
Tanisha King-Taylor
Soo Ah Kwon
Joycelyn Landrum-Brown
Leslie Morrow
Kevin Mumford
Kimberly Otchere
Gigi Secuban
Jamie Singson
Wallace Southerland, III
Medra Roberts-Southerland, ex-officio - Diversity Realized at Illinois by Visioning Excellence (DRIVE)
The DRIVE Committee is focused on supporting and accelerating department-, school- and college-level efforts to recruit faculty members and postdocs from traditionally underrepresented populations.
Committee Members
Wendy Heller, Chair
Matthew Ando
Tami Bond
Ollie Watts Davis
Nicki Jene Engeseth
B. Chris Green
Matthias Perdekamp
Lois Hoyer
Aric Rindfleisch
Jamelle Sharpe
Linda Smith
David Tewksbury - Enhancing Diversity, Guiding Excellence (EDGE) Council
Coming soon.
- Gender Equity Council (GEC)
The GEC advocates policies, sponsors programs, and monitors progress toward creating a gender-equitable and inclusive climate for faculty at Illinois.
Committee Members
Rosa Milagros Gilbertz Santos, Chair
Jennifer Bernhard
Robert Hughes
Cindy Ingold
Harley Johnson
Nadya Mason
Erik McDuffie
Colleen Murphy
Maria Ochoa Woods
Sandra Rodriguez-Zas
Peter Sauer
Kelly Tappenden
Marci Uihlein
Jaya Yodh
Medra Roberts-Southerland, ex-officio - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Concerns (LGBTQ)
The LGBTQ Committee is charged with building community among the LGBTQ communities, increasing the visibility of the achievements of LGBTQ faculty and academic professionals, assisting in shaping LGBTQ friendly policies to improve the working and learning climate at Illinois and working collaboratively with other diversity committees and stakeholders.
Committee Members
Ramona Oswald, Chair
Alejandro Gomez, Jr., Vice Chair
Toby Beauchamp
Johnell Bentz
Zachary Berent
Ga Young Chung
Peter Darch
Julie Dowling
Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler
Monica McDermott
Linda Owens
Charles Schroeder
Murillo Soranso
Eboni Zamani-Gallaher
Medra Roberts-Southerland, ex-officio
Academic Affairs
- Academic Program Review Council
This council assists with the implementation of the program review process, ensures a high quality ongoing process, and monitors follow-up on the recommended actions resulting from the reviews.
Committee Members
Scott Althaus, Chair
Sarita Adve
Jim Dalling
Rochelle Gutierrez
Alan Mette
Hong Li
Silvina Montrul
Shelly Nickols
George Pennacchi
Kim Shinew
Pamela Wilkins
William Bernhard, ex-officio
Staci Provezis, ex-officio - Background Check Committee
Coming soon.
- Military Education Council
Coming soon.
- Named Faculty Appointments Committee
Coming soon.
- Off-Cycle Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure
Coming soon.
Undergraduate Education
- Campus ePortfolio Committee
This committee is responsible for identifying ways to better communicate about ePortfolios, providing guidance for the creation of resources for this work, outlining the criteria to award top ePortfolios and determining how they will be assessed.
Committee Members
Lisa Hinchliffe, Library – co-chair
Staci Provezis, Provost’s Office – co-chair
Robert Baird, CITL
Phyllis Baker, LAS & Student Affairs
Johnell Bentz, EDU & GCL faculty member
Taylor Judd, Media
Kate LaBore, CITL
Nicole Lamers, LAS
Michele Plante, iSchool
Joe Post, Grand Challenge Initiative
Gayle Spencer, Student Affairs, Tracy Tolliver, Technology Services - Chancellor’s Senior Survey Committee
Coming soon.
- Committee on the Admission of Student-Athletes (CASA)
The committee is charged to review student-athlete applications requiring special admissions consideration.
- Committee on the Use of Facilities
Coming soon.
- Council for Learning Outcomes Assessment (C-LOA)
To promote and guide assessment activities on our campus, the inaugural Provost’s Council for Learning Outcomes Assessment (C-LOA) was created in spring 2016. The role of the Council is to foster a practice of assessment that is ongoing and meaningful to campus units.
Council Members
Wynne Korr, School of Social Work, Chair
Anna Dilger, ACES
Kim Graber, AHS
Xiaoling (Clare) Chen, BUS*
Jessica Li, EDU
Erhan Kudeki, ENGR
Louis Bergonzi, FAA
Daniel Newman, LER
Stephen Altaner, LAS
Colleen Murphy, LAW
Linda C. Smith, LIS
Ann Reisner, Media*
Dawn Morin, VetMed
Phyllis Baker, Student Affairs
Isabel Molina, Media*
Eric Meyer, Senate
George Gollin, General Education Board
Spencer Haydary, Undergraduate Student
Kirstin Phelps, Graduate Student
Michel Bellini, CITL
Staci Provezis, Office of Provost, ex officioWorking Group Members
Jenny Amos, ENGR
Michel Bellini, CITL
Rajat Chadha, CITL
Hannah Choi, CITL
Denice Hood, EDU
Faye Lesht, CITL
Julia Makela, Student Affairs
Staci Provezis, Office of the Provost
Collin Ruud, BUS
Linda C. Smith, LIS
Min Zhan, Social Work - Council of Undergraduate Deans
Coming soon.
- Culture Studies Implementation Task Force – Curricular Planning
Coming soon.
- Culture Studies Implementation Task Force – Student Communication
Coming soon.
- General Education Board
The General Education Board ensures, as much as possible, that general education courses will be valuable intellectual experiences. Responsibilities include defining the categories of general education requirements for the campus, reviewing course proposals, and review and recertifies all courses approved for general education credit.
Committee Members
Craig Zilles, Chair
Antony Augoustakis
Karen Carney
Kate Clancy
Susan Curtis
Lee DeVille
George Gollin
David Hays
Chris Higgins
Harrison Kim
Soo Lee
Jonathan Keeble
Julian Parrott
Stephen Peters
Rebecca Sandefur
Meagan Schaffer, undergraduate student
James Swigart, graduate student
Casey Waler, undergraduate student
Jon Welty-Peachey
Kathy Martensen, ex-officio - MOOC and Online Strategy Advisory Committee (MSAC)
Coming soon.
- Net Tuition Model Working Group
Coming soon.
- Online Innovation Advisory Board
Coming soon.
- Online Learning Operations Advisory Board
Coming soon.
- Study Abroad Administrators Committee (SAAC)
This committee has a vital role in the creation and implementation of policies and procedures relating to international student mobility on our campus.
- Teaching Advancement Board
The Teaching Advancement Board (TAB) encourages excellence and innovation in teaching.
- University High School Strategic Vision Task Force
“Uni High” is widely recognized as an excellent school and an asset to the campus. In February 2016 this task force was charged with proposing a vision for the role and purpose of Uni High, including a new financial/operating model.
Charge Letter 2016-17
Uni High Strategic Vision Task Force – Final Report 12-2016Committee Members
Richard Wheeler, Chair
Jeffrey Walkington, Director, University Laboratory High School
Elizabeth Majerus, Uni Faculty Representative
Sharlene Denos, Uni Faculty Representative
Steve Michael, Uni Parent-Faculty Organization Representative
Brent McBride, Child Development Lab
Amy Ando, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Michaelene Ostrosky, Special Education
Timothy Stelzer, Physics
Matthew Tomaszewski, Associate Provost for Capital Planning, ex officio
Keith Marshall, Interim Associate Provost for Enrollment Management, ex officio
To view archived materials from past committees on Box, click here.