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All-College Council

2004-2005

Function: The All-College Council has been designed to serve as a college forum to analyze, discuss and make recommendations to the President on community issues that do not clearly fall under the jurisdiction of the President's staff and of student and faculty committees and governance structures. As such, the All-College Council has jurisdiction over all-College community matters that due to their nature do not fall under the purview of any one of the existing committees and governance structures. Any member of the All-College Council may bring an issue to the Council for discussion. The All-College Council will then discuss the issue and make a determination as to whether or not the issue falls under its purview. To formally consider an issue, a simple majority of the All-College Council must vote either to consider it under its jurisdiction or to remand the issue to the constituency under it to whose jurisdiction it has been determined to belong. Additionally the All-College Council shall have the ability to form ad-hoc subcommittees to further investigate issues and report back to the Council. Amendments to the function or membership of this committee must be agreed to by all parties and made by the appropriate methods within each of the three constituencies.

Membership: President of the College (Chair), S.G.A. President, S.G.A. Vice-President for Academic Affairs, S.G.A. Vice-President for Residential Affairs, two students-at-large appointed by S.G.A., one appointed for a one year term and one for a two year term; five (5) tenure track faculty, at least two of them tenured, elected to two year terms; the Dean of Admissions and Student Aid, the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty or his/her designee, the Dean of Student Affairs, one(1) at-large administrative representative and one (1) representative of the Support Staff appointed by the President to two-year terms. In order to ensure continuity from academic year to academic year, the Council membership (faculty, staff, student) should be appointed on a staggered basis so that there are always experienced members on the Council.

  Philip Glotzbach, President, Chair
  John Brueggemann, Associate Dean of Faculty Development
  Pat Oles, Dean of Student Affairs
  Mary Lou Bates, Dean of Admissions & Student Aid
2005 Betsy Sheridan '05, SGA President
  Molly Appel '05, SGA V.P. for Academic Affairs
  TBA-SGA V.P. for Residential Affairs
2005 Ben Tronnier '05
2006 TBA-student
2005 Mary Cogan, University Without Walls
2005 Kim Coons, Student Aid & Family Finance
2005 Philip Boshoff, English, tenured
  Debra Fernandez, Dance, tenured
  Mark Huibregtse, Mathematics & Computer Science, tenured (on leave S'05)
2006 Hedi Jaouad, Foreign Languages & Literatures, tenured
  Lenora de la Luna, Education, untenured
  Guest: Jack Ling, Director, Office of Institutional Diversity (non-voting)

2003-2004

Function: The All-College Council has been designed to serve as a college forum to analyze, discuss and make recommendations to the President on community issues that do not clearly fall under the jurisdiction of the President's staff and of student and faculty committees and governance structures. As such, the All-College Council has jurisdiction over all-College community matters that due to their nature do not fall under the purview of any one of the existing committees and governance structures. Any member of the All-College Council may bring an issue to the Council for discussion. The All-College Council will then discuss the issue and make a determination as to whether or not the issue falls under its purview. To formally consider an issue, a simple majority of the All-College Council must vote either to consider it under its jurisdiction or to remand the issue to the constituency under it to whose jurisdiction it has been determined to belong. Additionally the All-College Council shall have the ability to form ad-hoc subcommittees to further investigate issues and report back to the Council. Amendments to the function or membership of this committee must be agreed to by all parties and made by the appropriate methods within each of the three constituencies.

Membership: President of the College (Chair), S.G.A. President, S.G.A. Vice-President for Academic Affairs, S.G.A. Vice-President for Residential Affairs, two students-at-large appointed by S.G.A., one appointed for a one year term and one for a two year term; five (5) tenure track faculty, at least two of them tenured, elected to two year terms; the Dean of Admissions and Student Aid, the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty or his/her designee, the Dean of Student Affairs, one(1) at-large administrative representative and one (1) representative of the Support Staff appointed by the President to two-year terms. In order to ensure continuity from academic year to academic year, the Council membership (faculty, staff, student) should be appointed on a staggered basis so that there are always experienced members on the Council.

     Philip Glotzbach, President, Chair
  John Brueggemann, Associate Dean of Faculty Development
  Pat Oles, Dean of Student Affairs
  Mary Lou Bates, Dean of Admissions & Student Aid
2004 Scott Minkoff '04, SGA President
  Nick Merrill '05, SGA V.P. for Academic Affairs
  Betsy Sheridan '05, SGA V.P. for Residential Affairs
2004 Dave Thayer '04
2005 Felicia Berenson '05
2005 Mary Cogan, University Without Walls
2005 Kim Coons, Student Aid & Family Finance
2004 Paty Rubio, Foreign Languages & Literatures, tenured (1-semester replacement S'04)
  Ruth Andrea Levinson, Education, tenured
2005 Philip Boshoff, English, tenured
  Debra Fernandez, Exercise Science, Dance & Athletics, tenured
  Mark Huibregtse, Mathematics & Computer Science, tenured
  Guests: Jack Ling, Director, Office of Institutional Diversity

2002-2003

Function: The All-College Council has been designed to serve as a college forum to analyze, discuss and make recommendations to the President on community issues that do not clearly fall under the jurisdiction of the President's staff and of student and faculty committees and governance structures. As such, the All-College Council has jurisdiction over all-College community matters that due to their nature do not fall under the purview of any one of the existing committees and governance structures. Any member of the All-College Council may bring an issue to the Council for discussion. The All-College Council will then discuss the issue and make a determination as to whether or not the issue falls under its purview. To formally consider an issue, a simple majority of the All-College Council must vote either to consider it under its jurisdiction or to remand the issue to the constituency under it to whose jurisdiction it has been determined to belong. Additionally the All-College Council shall have the ability to form ad-hoc subcommittees to further investigate issues and report back to the Council. Amendments to the function or membership of this committee must be agreed to by all parties and made by the appropriate methods within each of the three constituencies.

Membership: President of the College (Chair), S.G.A. President, S.G.A. Vice-President for Academic Affairs, S.G.A. Vice-President for Residential Affairs, two students-at-large appointed by S.G.A., one appointed for a one year term and one for a two year term; five (5) tenure track faculty, at least two of them tenured, elected to two year terms; the Dean of Admissions and Student Aid, the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty or his/her designee, the Dean of Student Affairs, one(1) at-large administrative representative and one (1) representative of the Support Staff appointed by the President to two-year terms. In order to ensure continuity from academic year to academic year, the Council membership (faculty, staff, student) should be appointed on a staggered basis so that there are always experienced members on the Council.

  President Jamienne Studley, Chair
  John Brueggemann, Associate Dean of Faculty Development
  Pat Oles, Dean of Student Affairs
  Mary Lou Bates, Dean of Admissions & Student Aid
2003 Andy Kirshenbaum, SGA President
  Nick Merrill '05, SGA V.P. for Academic Affairs
  Scott Minkoff, SGA V.P. for Residential Life
  Rebecca Thorpe '04
2003 Marissa Aquila '03
2003 Mary Cogan, UWW, admin. rep
  Michele Koskinen, Music, Support Staff rep
2003 Susan Belden, Management & Business, untenured
  Joanne Devine, English, tenured (on leave F'02)
  David Weis, Chemistry & Physics, untenured (replacement for Devine F'02)                 
  Jordana Dym, History, untenured
2004 Greg Goodwin, Psychology, untenured
  Ruth Andrea Levinson, Education, tenured
  Guests: TBA, Director, President's Office
  Jack Ling, Director, Diversity & Affirmative Action