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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

2009-2010 APAC Meeting Schedule

All meetings are held Mondays, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in the Maryland Room (0100 Marie Mount Hall).


October 12, 2009
November 16, 2009
December 14, 2009
February 8, 2010
March 8, 2010
April 12, 2010
May 10, 2010

APAC Membership 2009-2010

Voting Members
Name and Term Membership Status Department College
Norma Allewell (6/10) Dean CLFS CLFS
Charles Caramello Faculty Graduate School Dean (ex-officio) ENGL GRAD
Ira Chinoy (6/10) Faculty JOUR JOUR
Allison Druin (6/11)
Faculty
CLIS
CLIS
Bob Gold (6/11)
Dean
SPHL
SPHL
Sandra Gordon-Salant (6/11)
Faculty
HESP
BSOS
Donna Hamilton     Undergraduate Dean (ex-officio) UGST UGST
Brian Hunt (6/11)
Faculty
MATH
CMPS
David Kirsch (6/11)
Faculty
BMGT
BMGT
Peter Kofinas (6/10) Faculty BIOE ENGR
Linda Mabbs (6/10)
Senate
MUSC
ARHU
Paul Pietroski (6/11)
Faculty
PHIL
ARHU
Daniel Ramia (6/11)
Staff
AGNR
AGNR
Larry Sita (6/10) Faculty CHEM CLFS
John Steinbruner (6/10) Faculty PUAF PUAF
Nelly Stromquist (6/11)
Faculty
EDHI
EDUC
Amanda Berger (6/10)
Graduate Student

SPHL
Rafael Green (6/10)
Undergraduate Student

BMGT




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)
Elizabeth Beise Provost's Staff (Academic Planning & Programs)
Mahlon Straszheim Provost's Staff
Robert Waters Provost's Staff

 

 

Membership as of August 30, 2009


Comments or questions may be sent to Academic Programs and Planning

Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
University of Maryland; 1119 Main Administration Bldg.; College Park, MD 20742-5031
Telephone: (301) 405-5252; Fax: (301) 405-8195.