Brief Updates March 2015 [email protected] 1 Commi;ee Appointments •  Commi0ee on Academic Planning and Resource Alloca9on (CAPRA) •  Chaired by Professor Nancy Wallace •  IniEates and advises on annual and long-‐range academic and physical planning. –  Campus budget recommendaEons. –  Program reviews. –  Capital projects. •  Serious Eme commitment, powerful Academic Senate commi;ee, good primer for future Exec Board role in the GA. •  Meets every Wednesday from 9am-‐11am in Stephens Hall. Commi;ee Appointments •  Advising Council •  Meets quarterly •  to facilitate and to foster the exchange of informaEon that supports a culture of campus-‐wide excellence in advising; •  to discuss and to promote the resoluEon of issues and challenges that impede the achievement of the shared goal of excellence in advising, including the recommendaEon and development of shared policies, procedures and pracEces to achieve agreed upon objecEves; •  to idenEfy areas that are in need of improvement requiring campus-‐
level strategic planning and to provide recommendaEons for the respecEve organizaEonal unit(s) that are charged with their implementaEon and/or to the Advising ExecuEve Commi;ee as appropriate. Provost Update •  Faculty diversity