CAC Membership

  1. The CAC shall consist of the following elected Faculty Organization members:
    1. Two tenured/tenure-track and one full-time non-tenure track faculty shall be elected to the CAC from the Aeronautics Academic Program Area Faculty Organization members.
    2. Two tenured/tenure-track and one full-time non-tenure track faculty shall be elected to the CAC from the Applied Engineering and Technology Academic Program Area Faculty Organization members. 
    3. The CAC faculty configuration specified in this section may be modified when approved by a majority vote of the CAC. Those changes shall be reflected in the subsequent update of this Handbook. 
    4. Per the 2015 Tenured/Tenure-Track Collective Bargaining Agreement, the tenured/tenure-track faculty (Faculty) members of the CAC shall constitute a majority of the members of the CAC.
    5. Administrators with faculty rank who hold a full-time administrative position within the College may not serve as a CAC representative.
  2. CAC elections will be held by all full-time Faculty Organization members within each respective Academic Program Area at the Spring All-College meeting in odd-numbered years. Newly elected CAC representatives shall take office at the beginning of the following Fall Semester, and shall serve a two-year term. 
  3. The Dean, Graduate Coordinator, and the chief academic representative (Chair/Coordinator/Director) of each Academic Program Area, will be ex-officio, non-voting members of the CAC.
  4. Per the 2015 tenured/tenure-track CBA, the tenured/tenure-track faculty (Faculty) members of the CAC shall constitute a majority of the members of the CAC.
  5. The CAC Faculty member with the highest seniority shall be designated as the senior faculty member of the CAC. When faculty seniority is a consideration for an issue, the seniority ranking shall be determined by the Faculty member’s time accrued as a full-time Faculty member of the college.
  1. Matters of Academic Unit Governance
    1. College Committees
      1. College Advisory Committee (CAC)
        1. Purpose of the CAC
        2. CAC Membership
        3. CAC Responsibilities
        4. CAC Meetings
      2. Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion (RTP) Committee
      3. Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty (FTNTT Faculty) Performance Review and Promotion
      4. Student Academic Complaint Committee (SACC)
      5. College Curriculum Committee (CCC)
      6. Graduate Faculty Advisory Committee (GFAC) and Graduate Curriculum Committee (GCC)
      7. Other Ad Hoc Committees
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