2014-2015 Catalog 
    
    Dec 21, 2024  
2014-2015 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Committees of the Faculty and Board of Trustees



Faculty Committees

The President and the Dean of the Faculty are ex-officio members of all faculty committees. Tenured (or tenure-track) faculty with administrative appointments are listed as faculty. Ex-officio members of the administration are listed as staff. Several committees have elected members and student members that will be added later.

Standing Committees of the Faculty

Standing committees are constituted by action of the faculty, report to the faculty, make recommendations for faculty action, make recommendations to the College administration on academic issues, and must have a majority of their membership drawn from the faculty. They may be chaired by the President, one of the academic deans, or members of the faculty.

  • Academic Standards Committee
    Faculty: Bradley, Busch, Raviv, Rentz, Sanii, Scalmanini, and Valenza (chair)
    Staff: Deveres, Morgan, Spellman, Skinner, and Warner
  • Administration Committee
    Chair to be elected
    Faculty: Appel, Costanzo, Hayek, Locke, Miller, Shelton, Sinha, Thomas, Venit-Shelton, and von Hallberg
    Staff: Chodosh, Juan, and Warner
  • Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee (APT)
    Faculty: Aitel, Bessette, Bjornlie, Burdekin, Davis, de la Durantaye, Espinosa,Fucaloro, Higdon, Hughson, Hurley, Kim, Krauss, Lower, Nelson, Nichols,
    Staff: Chodosh, Guimond, and Warner
  • Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure Executive Committee (APT/EC)
    Faculty: Bjerk, Farrell, Huber, Kind, Levin, and Pei
    Staff: Guimond and Warner
  • Curriculum Committee
    Faculty: Antecol, Camp, Faggen, Frangieh, Gilbert, Krauss, Kumar, Lee, Preest, Rajczi, Sutton, and Wollen
    Staff: Blomberg, Chodosh, Huang, Lowe, Morgan, Nichols, Skinner (chair), Spellman, and Warner
    Students: Goldberg-Morse and Vyas
  • Faculty Research Committee
    Faculty: Lower, Pei, and Reed
    Staff: Chodosh, Riggio, and Warner

College Committees

College committees are constituted by the administration or as a result of initiatives of the faculty. They make policy recommendations outside the areas of academic issues and faculty personnel issues to either the administration, the faculty, or both.

  • Admission and Financial Aid Committee
    Faculty: Blomberg, Camp, Fukshansky, Gould, Hamburg, Michon, Obdrzalek, Sutton, Sweeney, Valdesolo, Vega-Duran, and von Hallberg
    Staff: Huang and Warner
    Students: Chung and Lenderts
  • Athenaeum Advisory Committee
    Faculty: Appel (chair), Arndt, Chung-Kim, Ferree, and Schroeder
    Staff: Edwards, Huang, and Warner
    Students: Hall, Harbaugh, Kakkar, Landgraf, Miller, Tillotson, Willis, and Zipperman
  • Committee on Academic Computing
    Faculty: Gould, Kao, Lee (chair), Michon, and Warachka
    Staff: Humes
    Students: Chung and Crabtree
  • Institutional Review Board (IRB)
    Faculty: Conger (Chair), Cook, Evans, Leconte, and Yu
    Staff: Haller
  • National Awards Committee
    Faculty: Bjornlie, Ganguly, Pitney, Sinha, Velazco, and von Hallberg
    Staff: Babon and Wenger
  • Off-Campus Study Committee
    Faculty: Aitel, Areshidze, Ascher, Hamburg, and Harris
    Staff: Mallory, Morgan, and Spellman
    Students: Johnson, Klein, and Lee
  • Teaching Resource Center Committee
    Faculty: TBA
    Staff: Warner (chair)

Special Committees

Special committees are constituted by the administration to provide advice and counsel for various policy areas on an ongoing basis.

  • CMC Magazine Editorial Board
    Faculty: de la Durantaye and Flory
    Staff: Bilger
  • Conduct Board
    Faculty: Bjornlie, Blitz, Bradley, Burton, Geismer, Ozbeklik, Taylor, and Williams
    Staff: Huang and Spellman
    Students: TBA
  • Personal and Social Responsibility Committee
    Faculty: Ganguly, Hwang, Lynch, Rentz, Selig, and Vega-Duran
    Staff: DeVeres, Gale, Gasaway, Graves, Sandoval-Dancs, Warner (chair), Weyman, Wynn
    Students: Lu and Xie
  • Environmental Concerns Committee
    Faculty: Cronqvist, Evans, and Reimer
    Staff: Huezo and Worley (chair)
    Students: Goodrich, Haskell, Larsen, and Moller
  • IR Committee
    Faculty: Ascher, Arndt, Blomberg, Burdekin, Camp, Frangieh, Haley, Pei, and Valencia
    Staff: Riggio
  • Library Committee
    Faculty: Hughson
  • ROTC Advisory Committee
    Faculty: Martin
    Staff: Spellman
  • Safety Committee
    Faculty: Lonzo
    Staff: Gale (chair) Espinosa, Frangieh, Harris, Locke, Morhardt, Nadon, Nelson, Rentz, Taw, Taylor, Velazco, Venit-Shelton, and Yoon
    Student: TBA
  • Senior Staff
    Staff: Aguilar, Aspinall, Benavidez, Bibbens, Blomberg, Chodosh, DeVeres, Faranda, Floyd, Huang, Humes, Iseminger, Riggio, Skinner, Spellman, and Warner
  • Student Recruitment Committee
    Faculty: Espinosa, Frangieh, Harris, Locke, Morhardt, Nadon, Nelson, Rentz, Taw, Taylor, Velazco, Venit-Shelton, and Yoon
    Staff: Fritz and Sandoval-Dancs

Intercollegiate Committees

CMC faculty and staff members of Intercollegiate Committees are:

  • Academic Deans Committee
    Warner
  • Admission Officers Committee
    Spellman
  • Business and Financial Affairs Committee
    Aspinall
  • Committee on Religious Affairs (CORA)
    Espinosa and Massoud
  • Council of The Claremont Colleges
    Chodosh
  • College Advancement Committee
    Iseminger
  • Faculty Athletic Representatives Committee
    Petropoulos
  • Human Resources Committee
    Hwang
  • Information Technology Committee
    Humes
  • Intercollegiate Gender Studies Committee
    Faculty: Bilger and Selig
  • Joint Physical Education Appointment, Reappointment, and Promotion Committee
    Kesler and Rossum
  • Keck Science Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee
    Faculty: Meulbroek and Wright
    Staff: Warner
  • Registrars Committee
    Morgan
  • Student Deans Committee
    Spellman

Advisory Committees

Advisory committees are constituted by the Administration as needed for ad hoc purposes as issues arise needing special attention. They are intended to study an issue, provide advice and recommendations, and then cease operations.

  • CMC Activities Committee (CMAC)
    Faculty: Areshidze, Dowling, and Magilke
    Staff: Aguirre, Gale, Juan, Masko, Mayfield, Pruett, Ranney, Scalmanini, Valenzuela, and Walter (chair)
  • Exceptional Service Committee
    Faculty: Calichman
    Staff: Faranda (chair)
  • Assessment Committee
    Faculty: Gilbert, Humes (chair), Keil, Lynch, Tocoian, and Riggio
    Staff: Garris and Graves

Committees of the Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees committees provide for faculty and student input by means of membership on various committees, subcommittees, and ad hoc committees. Voting is limited to trustees. Faculty members of Board committees are listed as faculty. Tenured (or tenure-track) faculty with administrative appointments who provide staff support are listed as staff.

  • Academic Affairs Committee
    Trustees: McElwee (chair), Podlich (vice chair), Kuhl (vice chair), Chino, Hinckley, Isaacson, Leppert, Lerner, Murty, Neff, Peterson, Prager, Ramsey, Russell, Records
    Faculty: Nichols, Reed, Selig, and Shelton.
    Staff: Guimond, Humes, Preest, Riggio, Skinner, and Warner
    Students: TBA
  • Audit Committee
    Trustees: Neff (chair), Lerner (vice chair), Valach (vice chair), Hinckley, Kuhl, Sweet
    Staff: Alonzo, Aspinall, Bibbens, Floyd, and Watkins
  • Board Affairs Committee
    Trustees: Hetz (chair), Walker (vice chair), Barker, Brown, Butler, Chodosh, Crown, Grisolano, Larson, McElwee, McMahon, Mgrublian, Nakasone, Novack, Peterson, Sweet, Wagener
    Staff: Bibbens and Iseminger
  • Buildings and Grounds Committee
    Trustees: Novack (chair), Valach (vice chair), Chino, Crown, Day, Eggert, FlamsonGrisolano, Leppert, Podlich, Pritzlaff, Records, Remy, Walker, Wagener
    Faculty: Davis and Sutton
    Staff: Aspinall, Bibbens, Perri, Spellman, Warner, Worley
    Students: TBA
  • College Advancement Committee
    Trustees: Crown (co-chair), Wagener (co-chair), Bemowski (vice chair), Eggert (vice chair), Mitchell (vice chair), Boswell, Brown, Dreier, Grisolano, Klein, Hetz, Larson, Mann, McDowell, Mirbach, Mullen, Pritzlaff, Soll, Sweet
    Faculty: Costanzo and Rosett
    Staff: Benavidez, Faranda, Iseminger, Rutter
    Students: TBA
  • Executive Committee
    Trustees: Mgrublian (chair), McMahon (vice chair), Barker (vice chair), Brown, Chodosh, Crown, Day, Hetz, Klein, Larson, McElwee, Nakasone, Neff, Novack, Podlich, Russell, Sweet, Wagener, Walker
    Staff: Bibbens
  • Finance Committee
    Trustees: Russell (chair), Prager (vice chair), Brown, Butler, Crown, Eggert, Hinckley, Mitchell, Novack, Podlich, Soll, Stark, Valach, Walker
    Faculty: Filson and Helland
    Staff: Alonzo, Aspinall Bibbens, Floyd, Warner, Watkins
    Students: TBA
  • Investment Committee
    Trustees: Brown (co-chair), Larson (co-chair), Barker, Day, McElwee, McMahon, Records, Russell, Walker
    Staff: Aspinall, Denny, Floyd, Rotolo, and Watkins
  • Research and Research Institutes Subcommittee
    Trustees: TBA (chair), Kuhl (vice chair), Klein, Lerner
    Faculty: Ascher, Blitz, Busch, Faggen, Kanaya, Lower, Pei, Rosett, Smith Orr, and Weidenmier
    Staff: Riggio, Bartlett, and Warner
  • Student Affairs Committee
    Trustees: Klein (chair), Peterson (vice chair), Bemowski, Boswell, Dreier, Flamson, Isaacson, Kuhl, Mann, McDowell, Mirbach, Mullen, Murty, Nakasone, Ramsey, Soll
    Faculty: Busch, Hamburg, Locke, and Taw
    Staff: DeVeres, Easley, Huang, Sandoval-Dancs, Skinner, Spellman
    Students: TBA