UML CS Faculty Committee Memberships
for the 2016-2017 Academic Year
The purposes and make-ups of the various department committees are covered in the
UMass Lowell Dept. of Computer Science
By-Laws.
CS Department Faculty — mail to
all
- Full Professors
- Associate Professors
- Assistant Professors
- Lecturers
Graduate Committee — 5 elected plus ex-officio members
- Committee Chair: C. Chen
- Graduate Coordinator committee member ex officio: C. Chen
(appointed by the Chair, but to be confirmed by the committee)
- Navitas Coordinator
committee member ex officio: Levkowitz
- Term ending September 2016: Ge and Yanco
- Term ending September 2017: Cao, Rumshisky, and Saenko
- Term ending September 2018:
Note: The Graduate and Navitas Coordinators are full members of the Graduate Committee with the same voting rights as other members even though they are “ex officio.” According to Robert’s Rules of Order (10th edition, pp. 466-467), “ex officio” is not a class of membership. “Ex officio” indicates how one became a member of a committee (that is, by virtue of the office he or she holds), not what that member’s rights are. If the rights of ex-officio members are to be restricted, that must be done via bylaws. Otherwise, ex-officio members have the same rights as elected or appointed members, including voting. (See http://www.parlipro.org/faqanswers.htm, Question 4.)
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee — 5 elected plus ex-officio members
- Committee Chair: Adams
- Undergraduate Coordinator and committee member ex officio: Adams
(appointed by the Chair, but to be confirmed by the committee)
- Term ending September 2016: Heines and Martin
- Term ending September 2017: Hatem, Lin, and Moloney
- Term ending September 2018:
- Non-voting member: McCarthy
Note: The Undergraduate Coordinator is a full member of the Undergraduate Committee with the same voting rights as other members even though he or she is ”ex officio” as exlained above.
Operations Committee — at least 6 members
- Committee Chair: to be elected
- Associate Chair and committee member ex officio: Kim
- Term ending September 2016: G. Chen and Liu
- Term ending September 2017: McCarthy and Moloney
- Note: There is room for more members on this committee.
- Term ending September 2018:
Faculty Senate — up to 4 members
- Term ending May 2016: Liu
- Term ending May 2017: G. Chen, Fu, and Levkowitz
- Term ending May 2018: McCarthy
From the Faculty Senate By-Laws: “The Faculty Senate shall be nominated from and elected by the full-time academic faculty and librarians by department or academic unit with a personnel committee, at a ratio of 1:5. Senators shall be elected for two years by the full-time faculty and librarians in their departments or academic units. In departments or
academic units with two or more senators the term of office shall be staggered. The normal term of office for faculty senators shall be from 1 May of one calendar year through 30 April of the second following calendar year.” Thus, based on our current faculty size of 20 professors (which falls into the 16-20 range), we get to elect 4 senators.
Faculty Senate meetings are on the first Monday of each month at 3:30 PM.
Colloquium Coordinator
- Term ending September 2016: Cao
- Term ending September 2017:
Newsletter Editor
- Term ending September 2016: McCarthy, with assistance from Heines and Martin
- Term ending September 2017:
Student Organization Advisors
- Robotics Club: Yanco
- Student ACM Chapter (SACM): Heines — someone else will have to take this over next year
- Student Advisory Board (SAB): Does this board still exist?
- CS Graduate Student Organization (GSO): Does this organization still exist?
College of Arts & Sciences Division of Sciences Committees
- Personnel Committee: appointed by the Dean
- Graduate Studies Committee: appointed by the Dean
- Undergraduate Studies Committee: appointed by the Dean
