Department Committee Descriptions (UNC-CH Computer Science)

Time requirement: 1 hour meeting per week, perhaps an average of 3 weeks per month. Subcommittee assignments may involve 5-10 hours per semester when CAPCOM is pursuing a significant project.

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Colloquium Committee (COL)
The Colloquium Committee arranges for internal or external speakers in the Departmental Colloquium slot (and negotiates the time of that slot, as required). The Committee will oversee the expenditure of departmental funds for travel or honoraria for speakers when such funds exist and will coordinate colloquium schedules as possible with neighboring institutions (Duke, NCSU, NCAandT, UNC-G, etc). The committee also seeks funding for special colloquium series.

Two graduate students are appointed to this committee.

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Department Facilities Committee (DFC)
The committee will advise the Chairman, Associate Chairmen, Director of Computer Services, and Faculty on policy matters involving all aspects of the department's facilities, including the computer and communication plant. Matters under this committee's purview include access to the building and access to computers, logical and physical security, major equipment acquisitions, major software acquisitions, and planning of computing and communications facilities and support personnel for the department's facilities. Note: this committee must avoid becoming involved in micromanagement of Computer Services.

The goal of this Committee is to suggest ways to improve the security, comfort, and effectiveness of the working environment in the department by proposing policy and procedure modifications that will more smoothly support the work that needs to be done by students, faculty, and staff. Since the matters of this committee's concern affect students, faculty, and staff, this committee will have representation from all those groups.

Three graduate students are appointed to this committee.

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Committee on Examinations (EXA)
The Committee on Examinations coordinates the preparation of the Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Exam (Qual), and Core Comprehensive Exam (CCE). This includes soliciting question ideas, refining questions, testing the questions with students who have passed the exams, and compiling the exam's final form, organizing examining committees for the Qual, and compiling and reporting the results of the exams.

There are four graduate student members who must have passed both exams and been admitted to the Ph.D. program. Students are not involved in grading or evaluation of the exams.

Time requirement: in each semester, 4 weeks at 2 hrs/week in initial and wrap-up issues and 4 weeks at 6 hrs/week when testing proposed questions.

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Graduate Studies Committee (GRA)
The Graduate Studies Committee oversees certain administrative and policy aspects of the department's graduate program. The Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee is the Director of Graduate Studies. The items in the purview of this committee include

evaluating documents proposed as satisfying the technical writing requirement

requests to take the Qual or CCE for a third time

monitoring student progress toward the graduate degrees

evaluating and making recommendations to the Faculty regarding administrative appeals concerning graduate program matters

One graduate student is appointed to this committee for participation and voting in policy matters, but is not involved in review of individual student cases.

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Teaching Tune-Up (TTU)
The Teaching Tune-Up Committee reviews the classroom teaching of faculty members, either at their own request or at the request of the department chairman. These reviews are usually conducted in conjunction with formal reviews for reappointments, tenure cases, promotions, and official post-tenure reviews.

Faculty who have won teaching awards are likely prospects for this committee.

Two graduate students and two undergraduate students are appointed to this committee. Time requirement: About 12 hours a semester consisting of classroom visits, student and faculty interviews, and committee discussion.

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Undergraduate Studies Committee (UGS)
The Undergraduate Studies Committee serves as academic advisors for students in the Computer Science Options of the Curriculum in Mathematical Sciences and the Curriculum in Applied Sciences. The Chair of this committee is the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. This committee serves as the department's liaison to the Curriculum faculty.

The Director of Undergraduate Studies is the focal point for administrative tasks such as reviewing external courses for their appropriateness for transfer credit, arranging certain independent study courses and the Practicum course (092), identifying Honors candidates and administering the Honors Oral exams, and advising interested parents and students who contact the department, mainly in Spring semester.

Faculty who have taught undergraduate courses in the last 2 years are likely prospects for this committee.

An undergraduate student will be invited to join this committee for policy discussions, if any are planned.

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Conflict of Interest Committee (CFI)
The Conflict of Interest Committee is responsible for oversight of conflict of interest issues for all research projects that do have project-specific committees. In addition to three members from Computer Science, there is one member from elsewhere in the University.

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Sitterson South Committee (SIS)
The Sitterson South Committee is the department's planning body for the addition to Sitterson Hall.

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Web and Publicity
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Department of Computer Science
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