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Environmental Stewardship

Appointed by President Bennett to review issues related to environmental stewardship and sustainability on the USI campus, this committee will recommend opportunities to minimize resource consumption, maximize energy reduction practices, promote recycling efforts, and educate the community on issues of sustainability.

The chair of the committee is appointed by the President and serves a three-year term. The committee members will serve three-year staggered terms and include a representative of Business Affairs, a representative from Physical Plant, a representative from Food Services, a community/alumni representative, two faculty and one student appointed by Faculty Senate, one member of the support staff appointed by Staff Council, one student appointed by the Student Government Association, and one administrator.  Additional members may serve upon recommendation of the chair.

EEO Appeal and Hearing Board

The function of the Equal Employment Opportunity Appeal and Hearing Board is to hear appeals or conduct hearings on complaints pertaining to sexual harassment.  Three faculty members selected by Faculty Senate, three support staff members selected by Staff Council, three administrative members selected by Administrative Council, and three student members selected by Student Government Association are represented on the board.  Faculty and staff members serve three-year staggered terms and student members serve one-year renewable terms.  Members of the board select a chairperson annually.

Student Academic Grievance

The Student Academic Grievance Committee is a composite pool of ten members (five faculty and five students), will be elected in the spring to two-year terms, with graduate faculty and all undergraduate faculty and student members being elected for staggered terms and graduate students elected to one-year terms.  The five faculty members will include at least two members of the graduate faculty and three members of the undergraduate faculty.  The student members will include three undergraduate students and two graduate students. 

The Student Government Association will elect two undergraduate student members and one undergraduate faculty member.  The Faculty Senate will elect one undergraduate student and two undergraduate faculty members.  The Graduate Council will elect two graduate faculty members.  The Graduate Student advisory Committee will select two graduate students.  Members of the undergraduate faculty and undergraduate students will be elected in odd numbered years to two-year terms; members of the graduate faculty will be elected in even numbered years to two-year terms; graduate student members will be selected for one-year terms.  Terms will be for two years, beginning in the fall and ending at the conclusion of the summer III term following the second year of service.

Faculty must be tenured to be eligible to serve.  Undergraduate student members shall have earned at least 45 semester hours at the University, have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 and be in good standing.

Graduate students must be admitted to a graduate program, be enrolled in graduate program classes during the spring term of the pool selection, have earned at least 6 graduate hours, have a cumulative 3.0 GPA at the graduate level and be in good standing.

Faculty members must have been at the University full-time for at least three years.

 

Student Publications

This committee, appointed by the president, establishes criteria for the creation and operation of student publications, reviews and evaluates the financial operation, selects and/or removes editors of publications, adjudicates external and internal conflicts and complaints, and establishes and enforces standards of responsible journalistic behavior for staff of student publications. 

The committee consists of the department of Communications Chair or his designee (chair), two administrators, three faculty persons nominated by the Faculty Senate, and three students. Students who are employed by a USI publication are not eligible to serve. The dean of students, the student publications advisor, the director of the Scripps Howard Center for Media Studies, and a representative from Business Affairs serve as ex-officio members.

 

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