Office of the Provost

University Resources Committee (URC)

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University Resources Committee (URC)

The University Resources Committee is chaired by the provost and composed of faculty, students and administrators, reflecting Brown’s shared governance model, and is responsible for recommending Brown’s annual operating and capital budget to the president.

Charge of the University Resources Committee

  • The Committee shall serve to review, to analyze, and to offer recommendations to the President on all budgetary plans, proposals, and priorities, both current and future, affecting the University.
  • The Committee shall be responsible for maintaining a level of awareness of budgetary matters throughout the University that will encourage the development of informed opinions and the articulation and discussion of issues.
  • The Committee shall review, analyze and make recommendations regarding the allocation of University resources for the coming fiscal year and for long-range plans developed by the administration or by other duly constituted committees.
  • The Committee will conduct its business in closed session. The Committee will, however, host University-wide forums as necessary and appropriate to allow the Committee to hear the concerns and priorities of the University community.
  • The Committee shall, at appropriate points during the preparation of the University budget, report in written form to the President its analysis and its policy recommendations concerning the allocation of resources within the University.

URC Reports

The URC is responsible for recommending the annual operating and capital budget to the president of the University and delivers this recommendation in the form of a report each year.

Membership of the URC

The University Resources Committee (URC) is a standing committee of the faculty, chaired by the provost. There shall be seven faculty members. One faculty member shall have the rank of lecturer or senior lecturer. There shall be seven students appointed by their respective elected representative governing body in consultation with the Provost, and two staff members appointed by the Staff Advisory Committee in consultation with the Provost. Administrators shall serve as ex-officio members and shall be assigned to the committee at the Provost’s discretion. 

Administrators include deans, or other senior officers directly engaged in the budget process. The student members shall include four from the College, two from the Graduate School and one from the Medical School. Student members appointed to the Committee may not concurrently serve as Officers of their respective governing body (i.e. the Undergraduate Council of Students, the Graduate Council and the Medical Student Senate, respectively).

A faculty member in his/her second year of service on the Committee serves as vice chair. The vice chair is generally elected by the committee at the start of the term of new members.

Membership for Academic Year 2025–2026

Administrators

  • Francis Doyle III, Provost; Committee Chair
  • Janet Blume, Deputy Provost, Chief of Staff, and Interim Dean of the Graduate School
  • Russell Carey, Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy
  • Sarah Latham, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration
  • Tejal Desai, Sorenson Family Dean of Engineering, School of Engineering
  • Robert Eaton, Director, Budget, Planning, and Analysis, Office of Financial Strategy and Planning
  • Tim Fater, Associate Vice President for Financial Strategy and Planning
  • Kimberly Galligan, Executive Dean for Administration and Finance, Division of Biology and Medicine
  • Charlene Sweeney, Associate Vice President and University Controller
  • Leah VanWey, Dean of the Faculty
  • Sara Walsh, Executive Dean for Administration and Finance, School of Public Health
  • Michael P. White, Vice President for Finance and Administrative Services and Chief Financial Officer

Faculty

  • Kim Cobb, Professor, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and Committee Vice Chair
  • * Christina Cuomo, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
  • * James Egan, Professor of English
  • Larry Larson, Professor of Engineering
  • Brandon Marshall, Professor of Epidemiology
  • * David Lindstrom, Paul R. Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science
  • Laura Snyder, Senior Lecturer in Education

Students

  • * Simon Aron, Undergraduate Student
  • Charlotte Calkins, Undergraduate Student
  • * Hailey Kim, Undergraduate Student
  • Saira Moazzam, Medical Student
  • * Elettra Solignani, Graduate Student
  • Vacancy, Undergraduate Student (to be filled, Fall 2025)

Staff Representatives

  • Georgina Manok, Senior Director of Strategy and Assessment, Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service

Staffed by

  • Katherine Montilla, Administrative and Project Specialist, Finance and Administrative Services

*New Members