Standing Committees of the Department

Admissions and Fellowships Committee (ADM)
This committee reviews applications for graduate study, ranks the applicants, and selects fellowship nominees. The chair of this committee is the Director of Graduate Admissions.

Faculty are selected to provide representation across most of the department's active research areas. Two fairly senior graduate students are members of the committee and may be asked to help with folder review.

Time requirement: normally, 2-3 general meetings per semester, plus folder review as required, heaviest during Spring semester.
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Building and Grounds Committee (BLD)
This committee reviews the state of Sitterson Hall and its environs (exclusive of the computing environment) and identifies and prioritizes needs for repair, replacement, upgrades, etc. Safety and security are among the concerns of this committee (overlapping somewhat with DFC). This committee is also concerned with planning for functional and aesthetic enhancements of the building.

This committee has members from the staff and faculty. Two graduate students are appointed to this committee.

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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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Examinations Committee (EXA)
The Examinations Committee coordinates the Preliminary Research Presentation (PRP). This includes organizing examination committees, PRP waiver discussion, and second attempt PRPs.
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Facilities and Web Committee (DFC)
This committee, which was formerly the Departmental Facilities Committee and still goes by the abbreviation DFC, will advise the Chairman, Associate Chairmen, IT Director, and Faculty on policy matters involving all aspects of the department's facilities, including the computer and communication plant and the department's web space. 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.

Up to three graduate students are appointed to this committee.

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Graduate Curriculum and Planning Committee (GCAP)
GCAP is charged with

reviewing all proposals for substantive changes to graduate courses, including the creation of new courses, the deletion of old courses, and changes to syllabi for required courses,
recommending to the faculty changes in requirements for the graduate degrees,
advising the Chair concerning how to allocate departmental resources, and
helping the Chair to identify longer-range issues facing the department and plan how departmental affairs should be managed to address those issues.

Faculty on this committee should include those with significant interest in major GCAP action items, a representative sampling of research areas, and a mix of new and veteran faculty to the extent possible.

There are two student members, one representing each of the M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs.

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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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
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 Curriculum and Planning Committee (UGCAP)
UGCAP is charged with

reviewing all proposals for substantive changes to undergraduate courses, including the creation of new courses, the deletion of old courses, and changes to syllabi for required courses,
recommending to the faculty changes in requirements for the undergraduate degree,
advising the Chair concerning how to allocate departmental resources, and
helping the Chair to identify longer-range issues facing the department and plan how departmental affairs should be managed to address those issues.

Faculty on this committee should include those with significant interest in major UGCAP action items, a representative sampling of research areas, and a mix of new and veteran faculty to the extent possible.

There is one student member, representing B.S. degree program.

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, 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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