Permanent Committees

The Faculty Senate constitution provides that the Senate has permanent committees that include non-senators as members.

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Discovery Committee charter (2-12-18)

Faculty senate motion XIII-M11, on the formation of the Discovery Committee

Charges 

  1. Continue implementation of the Discovery Program

Discovery Committee Membership 2023-2024

Chair: Nicoletta Gullace, Discovery Faculty Director

  • Kathrine Aydelott, Library, to 7/1/24
  • Christopher Bauer, Chemistry, CEPS, 7/1/25
  • Tammy Conrad, Academic Technology (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Roger Grinde, Management, PCBE, to 7/1/25
  • Lou Ann Griswold, CHHS, to 7/1/24
  • Gregory McMahon, Classics, Humanities, & Italian Studies, COLA, 7/1/24
  • Tim Montminy, COLSA, and Faculty Senate Liaison, to 7/1/26
  • Catherine Peebles,  Honors Program (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Sarah Prescott, UNH-M, to 7/1/24
  • VACANT, Student Senator (non-voting)
  • Laura Upham, Assistant Registrar (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Sachiko Akiyama, COLA, to 7/1/26
  • Kate Ziemer, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (ex officio, non-voting)

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Discovery Committee charter (2-12-18)

Faculty senate motion XIII-M11, on the formation of the Discovery Committee

Charges 

  1. Continue implementation of the Discovery Program

Discovery Committee Membership 2022-2023

  • Barbara White, Interim Dir. Disc. Prog. (ex officio, non-voting except for ties), chair
  • Kathrine Aydelott, Library, to 7/1/24
  • VACANT, Faculty Senate representative
  • Christopher Bauer, Chemistry, CEPS, 7/1/25
  • Tammy Conrad, Academic Technology (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Roger Grinde, Management, PCBE, to 7/1/22
  • Lou Ann Griswold, CHHS, to 7/1/24
  • Gregory McMahon, Classics, Humanities, & Italian Studies, COLA, to 7/1/24; Fall Proxy, Sachiko Akiyama, Art and Art History
  • VACANT, COLSA, to 7/1/22
  • Catherine Peebles,  Honors Program (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Sarah Prescott, UNH-M, to 7/1/24
  • VACANT, Student Senator (non-voting)
  • Laura Upham, Assistant Registrar (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Charles Vannette, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, COLA, to 7/1/23; Spring Proxy Sachiko Akiyana, Art and Art History 
  • Kate Ziemer, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (ex officio, non-voting)

Archive

Chair: Nicoletta Gullace

Discovery Committee charter (2-12-18)

Faculty senate motion XIII-M11, on the formation of the Discovery Committee

Charges 

  1. Continue implementation of the Discovery Program

Discovery Committee Membership 2021-2022

  • Nicoletta Gullace, Dir. Disc. Prog. (ex officio, non-voting except for ties), chair
  • Kathrine Aydelott, Library, to 7/1/24
  • Jay Colbert, Faculty Senate rep.
  • Tammy Conrad, Academic Technology (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Roger Grinde, Management, PCBE, to 7/1/22
  • Lou Ann Griswold, CHHS, to 7/1/24
  • Gregory McMahon, Classics, Humanities, & Italian Studies, COLA, to 7/1/24
  • Dawn Meredith, Physics, CEPS, to 7/1/22 
  • Jesse Stabile Morrell, ANFS,  COLSA, to 7/1/22
  • Catherine Peebles,  Honors Program (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Sarah Prescott, UNH-M, to 7/1/24
  • Kylee Rock, Student Senator (non-voting)
  • Laura Upham, Registrar's office (ex officio, non-voting)
  • Charles Vannette, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, COLA, to 7/1/23 
  • Kate Ziemer, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (ex officio, non-voting)

Discovery reports

The Professional Standards Committee will concern itself with matters affecting the welfare of the faculty including academic freedom, promotion, tenure, workload assignments, faculty personnel policy, and professional ethics. This committee has a role established by a  collective bargaining agreement relating to termination or severe sanctions placed on faculty members.  The Professional Standards Committee will be elected by tenure-track faculty in the AAUP-UNH bargaining-unit by approval ballots in CEPS, COLSA, COLA, CHHS, PCBE, UNH-Manchester, and the Library. All tenured faculty members will automatically be the nominees on their respective ballots. The Faculty Senate will supervise this election. The Professional Standards Committee will have seven directly elected members,  one from each of the following: CEPS, COLSA, COLA, CHHS, PCBE, UNH-Manchester, and the Library. In addition the vice chair of the Faculty Senate will be the eighth member and the chair of the committee.

The chair of this committee is the vice chair of the Faculty Senate and represents the Faculty Senate when the UNH Policy on Academic Misconduct is triggered.  The chair of this committee serves as a member of the Financial Conflict of Interest Disclosure Review Committee and also of the Responsible Conduct of Research Advisory Committee.

Charge

Professional Standards Committee

Charges for the Academic year 2023-2024
Consider any quasi-adjudicatory charges which arise.

Professional Standards Committee Membership 2023-2024

  • Jeff Halpern, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, CEPS, Faculty Senate Vice Chair serves as the PSC chair through the 202/24 AY
  • Charles Zercher, Chemistry, CEPS, term ends July 2025
  • Brent Bell, Recreation Management & Policy, CHHS, term expires July 2025
  • Holly Cashman, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, COLA, term expires July 2024
  • Jessica Bolker, Biological Sciences, COLSA, term expires July 2024
  • Elizabeth Slomba, Library, term expires July 2025
  • Catherine Plante, Accounting and Finance, PAUL, term expires 2024
  • Jeffrey Klenotic, Communication Arts, CPS-M, term expires July 2025

Professional Standards Committee Membership 2021-2022

  • Matthew MacMannes, MCBS, COLSA, Senate vice chair serves as PSC chair through the 2021/2022 academic year
  • Erin Bell, Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEPS, through the 2022-23 academic year
  • Brent Bell, Recreation Management & Policy, CHHS, through the 2022-23 academic year
  • Lisa MacFarlane, English, COLA, through 2021-22 academic year
  • Jessica Bolker, COLSA through 2021-22 academic year
  • Elizabeth Slomba, Library, through 2022-23 academic year
  • Catherine Plante, PCBE, through 2021-22 academic year

  • Jeffrey Klenotic, Communication Arts, UNH-M, through 2022-2023 academic year

Professional Standards Committee Membership 2020-2021

  • Kevin Healey,  Communication, COLA, Senate vice chair serves as PSC chair through the 2020/2021 academic year
  • Erin Bell, Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEPS, through the 2020-21 academic year
  • Brent Bell, Recreation Management & Policy, CHHS, through the 2020-21 academic year
  • Dennis Britton, English, COLA through 2020-21 academic year
  • Jessica Bolker, COLSA through 2021-22 academic year
  • Elizabeth Slomba, Library, through 2020-21 academic year
  • Catherine Plante, PCBE, through 2021-22 academic year

  • Jeffrey Klenotic, Communication Arts, UNH-M, through 2020-2021 academic year

Chair

UCAPC Charter

Charges

Standing Charges:

  1. To serve as an appeals and fact-finding body to consider academic and curricular matters which have inter-college and/or campus-wide effects or which are likely to affect the quality or integrity of the realization of the university’s academic mission.
  2. To advise the Faculty Senate on its findings and recommendations.

Additional Charge from the Faculty Senate Agenda Committee on October 13, 2021: 

SVPAA Kate Ziemer has proposed a new shared governance structure to enable proactive curricular innovations at the
undergraduate level across colleges and disciplines. Because the faculty responsibilities in this proposed governance
structure are similar to the responsibilities of UCAPC, the Faculty Senate Agenda Committee has recommended that
UCAPC trial the review process proposed by the SVPAA as a first step before any changes are made to the UCAPC
charter.

Therefore, the Senate Agenda Committee is charging UCACP to trial the review process by SVPAA Kate Ziemer for two
undergraduate curricular proposals.

As part of this trial, UCAPC shall invite the associate deans and the Registrar to participate.
The Agenda Committee is requesting a debrief and a report from the UCAPC at the end of the trial period to assist in
determining any permanent changes to faculty governance processes for undergraduate curriculum changes

University Curriculum and Academic Policies Committee Membership 2023-2024

Elected members:

  • Carmela Amato-Weirda,  Materials Science, CEPS to 07/1/26, Chair
  • Charles Zercher, Chemistry, CEPS to 7/1/25
  • May-Win Thein,  Mechanical Engineering CEPS to 07/1/24
  • Cindy Hartman,  CHHS, to 7/1/26
  • Don Robin, Communication Sciences and Disorders, CHHS, to 7/1/25
  • Alecia Magnifico,  English COLA to 7/1/24
  • David Bachrach, History, COLA, to 07/1/25
  • Benjamin Cariens, COLA,  to 07/1/25
  • Melissa Aikens,  Biological Sciences, COLSA, to 07/1/26
  • Andrew Conroy, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, COLSA, to 7/1/24
  • Jennifer Carroll,  Library to 7/1/25
  • Dan Innis, Hospitality Management and Marketing, PCBE to 7/1/24 
  • Dev Dutta, Business Administration, PCBE to 07/1/25
  • Vacant,  UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, to 7/1/24
  • Sean Tavares, Mechanical Engineering Technology, UNH Manchester, to 07/1/24

Faculty Senate representatives:  Requirement removed via FS Motion on 02/17/20

Student representatives (2023-24)

  • TBD, Student Senate Representative
  • TBD, Graduate Student Senate,  Graduate Student Senate Representative

Ex Officio members:

  • Kim Babbitt, Chair of Academic Standards and Advising Committee
  • Kate Ziemer, Senior Vice Provost of Academic Affairs

University Curriculum and Academic Policies Committee Membership 2022-2023

Elected members:

  • Carmela Amato-Weirda,  Materials Science, CEPS to 07/1/23, Chair
  • Charles Zercher, Chemistry, CEPS to 7/1/25
  • May-Win Thein,  Mechanical Engineering CEPS to 07/1/24
  • Karen Collins, Kinesiology,  CHHS, to 7/1/23, on Fall sabbatical 
  • Don Robin, Communication Sciences and Disorders, CHHS, to 7/1/25
  • Alecia Magnifico,  English COLA to 7/1/24
  • David Bachrach, History, COLA, to 07/1/25
  • Vacant, COLA,  to 07/1/23
  • Estelle Hrabak,  MCBS, COLSA, to 07/1/23
  • Andrew Conroy, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, COLSA, to 7/1/24
  • Jennifer Carroll,  Library to 7/1/25
  • Dan Innis, Hospitality Management and Marketing, PCBE to 7/1/24 
  • Vanessa Druskat, Management, PCBE to 07/1/25, 2022 -23 Proxy, Dev Dutta
  • Vacant,  UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, to 7/1/24
  • Sean Tavares, Mechanical Engineering Technology, UNH Manchester, to 07/1/24

Faculty Senate representatives:  Requirement removed via FS Motion on 02/17/20

Student representatives (2021-22)

  • Sophia Spina, Student Body President, Student Senate Representative
  • Karla Onate Melecio, Chair, Graduate Student Senate,  Graduate Student Senate Representative

Ex Officio members:

  • Kim Babbitt, Chair of Academic Standards and Advising Committee
  • Kate Ziemer, Senior Vice Provsot of Academic Affairs