Academic Priorities Council
Chair: Kathleen Debevec
Membership List
Minutes
2008-2009 Annual Report
2003-2004 Annual Report
During the Fall 2009 semester the Academic Priorities Council will meet:
Tuesday, September 22 (CC 905-09)
Tuesday, October 20 (CC 911-15)
Tuesday, November 17 (CC 903)
Tuesday, December 8 (CC 903)
All meetings will be held at 3:00 p.m.
An Exploration into Improving Academic Supply (Deliverables) Relative to Student Demand
AQAD Summaries 1998-2004
The Academic Priorities Council shall:
(a) Provide advice to the Administration on all matters of academic planning and priority;
(b) Provide periodic advice to the Administration relating to the growth, stabilization, reduction
merger and closure of academic programs;
(c) Review, at the request of the Administration, long-range plans involving changes in
academic priorities;
(d) Develop criteria and procedures whereby programs can be assigned an academic priority;
(e) Review all proposals for new programs. Since the concept of priority includes competition for
resources, the Council's review may include an assessment of the priority of the proposed
new program in relation to existing program with which the new program will compete; and
(f) Review and respond to AQAD Reports.
Its membership shall be:
(a) Fifteen Faculty Members, including one from each of the Schools and Colleges and one from
the Professional Library Staff selected at large;
(b) A Representative of the Massachusetts Society of Professors;
(c) The Provost or a designee, serving ex officio;
(d) The Chairperson of the Academic Matters Council or a designee, serving ex officio;
(e) The Chairperson of the Program and Budget Council or a designee, serving ex officio;
(f) The Chairperson of the Graduate Council or a designee, serving ex officio;
(g) The Secretary of the Faculty Senate or a designee, serving ex officio, non-voting;
(h) One Graduate Student; and
(i) Two Undergraduate Students.
From Chapter 5 Section 3 of the Faculty Senate Bylaws
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