Charge of the Academic Priorities Committee
The Academic Priorities Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the President concerning the general direction of academic programs.
- To make recommendations on the strategic allocations of academic resources for operational, instructional and research purposes.
- To review all major academic budgetary proposals prepared for submission to the University Resources Committee.
- To review proposals to establish and/or renew departments, centers, programs, and institutes and make recommendations thereon for approval by the Faculty. The committee also has the authority to act on its own to establish, renew and/or rename any such units that reside wholly within a larger existing department, center, program, or institute.
- To review proposals for new graduate degree programs and new undergraduate concentrations, in coordination with the Graduate Council and College Curriculum Council, so as to assess their impact on academic resources. The Academic Priorities Committee plays a consultative role, with final approval for graduate degree programs and undergraduate concentrations to be made by the Faculty and the College Curriculum Council, respectively.
- To supervise external reviews of and changes in the status of academic units and make recommendations thereon. In doing so, the APC will examine the written standards and criteria for contract renewal, promotion, and tenure in the unit and consider any comments from external reviewers regarding them. If revisions are suggested, these will be conveyed to the unit and to TPAC.
- To receive reports on appointments to named chairs and review policies for making such appointments.
- To review proposals for new University-level joint efforts with other institutions and make recommendations thereon to the President.
- It may itself also initiate proposals for the development of academic programs.
- To review policies on student admissions and aid that shape the composition of the University.