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The Academic Planning Advisory Committee (APAC) was created on the recommendation of the College Park Senate, to advise the Chief Academic Officer concerning academic issues with a significant resource implication. APAC's advice is required when academic programs are proposed to be created or eliminated, or when departments or other units are to be created, merged, split, or eliminated. APAC has been involved in many other initiatives, including strategic planning, the revision of the undergraduate curriculum, and the distribution of enhancement and research initiative funds.

APAC is appointed by the Provost, in consultation with the Senate Executive Committee. It has a majority of faculty members, and includes one staff member, two students, and a number of administrators. In recent years each committee has included two academic deans, and the deans of undergraduate and of graduate studies ex officio. Faculty serve for two years, academic deans for two years, staff members for two years, and students for one.

While faculty members of APAC are chosen with a balance of academic areas in mind, they act as individuals, and rather than representatives of a particular constituency, they are chosen as representing the best of us. As stated in the original Senate recommendation "they should be chosen for their judgment, commitment to the campus, scholarship, and teaching accomplishments and should represent a diversity of disciplines, experience, and perspectives."

Description Updated August 21, 2008

2008-2009 APAC Meeting Schedule

All meetings are held Mondays, 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the Maryland Room (0100 Marie Mount Hall).


October 13, 2008
November 17, 2008
December 15, 2008
February 2, 2009
March 2, 2009
April 13, 2009
May 11, 2009

APAC Membership 2008-2009

Voting Members
Name and Term Membership Status Department College
Norma Allewell (6/10) Dean CLFS CLFS
Elizabeth Beise (6/09)   Faculty  PHYS CMPS
Charles Caramello Graduate School Dean (ex-officio) ENGL GRAD
Peter Carruthers (6/10) Faculty PHIL ARHU
Ira Chinoy (6/10) Faculty JOUR JOUR
Jane Clark (6/09)     Faculty  KNES SPHL
Cynthia Hale (6/09) Staff GRAD GRAD
Donna Hamilton     Undergraduate Dean (ex-officio) UGST UGST
Peter Kofinas (6/10) Faculty BIOE ENGR
Robert Lissitz (6/09)      Faculty EDMS  EDUC
Elise Miller-Hooks (6/09) Senate ENCE ENGR
Larry Sita (6/10) Faculty CHEM CLFS
John Steinbruner (6/10) Faculty PUAF PUAF
Tony Whitehead (9/06-6/09)   Faculty ANTH  BSOS
Cheng-i Wei (9/07-6/09) Dean AGNR AGNR
To be named (6/09) Faculty    
To be named (6/09) Undergraduate Student    
To be named (6/09) Graduate Student    
Ex-Officio Non-Voting Members
Nariman Farvardin Provost (APAC Chair)
Mona Levine Provost's Staff (Institutional Research, Planning & Assessment)
William F. McLean Provost's Staff (Budget Officer)
Phyllis Peres Provost's Staff (Academic Planning & Programs)
Mahlon Straszheim Provost's Staff

 

 

Membership as of August 8, 2008


Comments or questions may be sent to C. Rector

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