Committee on Committees 2002-03 Annual Report
To the Academic Senate, Los Angeles Division:
The principal charge of the Committee on Committees (ConC) is the nomination, selection, and—
subject to Legislative Assembly approval—appointment of the Chair, Vice Chair, and all appointed
members of each standing committee of the UCLA division of the Academic Senate. ConC
accomplished this charge for approximately 98% of the appointments for the standing Academic
Senate committees. ConC accomplished this high rate of appointments despite operating with six
of its own positions vacant during 2002-03. ConC does not recruit for its membership; the
membership is elected by the faculty.
Academic Senate Standing Committees:
Academic Freedom
Council on Academic Personnel
Charges
Diversity and Equal Opportunity
Education Abroad
Faculty Research Lectureship
Faculty Welfare
Graduate Council
Planning and Budget
Privilege and Tenure
Research
Research – Faculty Grants Program
Rules and Jurisdiction
Teaching
Undergraduate Council
Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with
Schools
Undergraduate Council – Honors, Awards and
Prizes
University Emeriti and Pre-Retirement Relations
University Extension
Grievance and Disciplinary Procedures
Intercollegiate Athletics
Library
Statewide University Committees:
ConC made nominations and appointments for the UC Press and UC Merced Council on Academic
Personnel. Prior to 2002-03, the statewide UC Committee on Library (UCOL) was moribund. We
successfully nominated Professor Abdelmonem Afifi for Chair of the UCOL. Professor Afifi
reinvigorated the UCOL during this crucial time of budget crisis, and the inflationary impact on
scholarly journals. We also recruited the UCLA representative for the following statewide
University of California committees.
Academic Assembly Representatives
Academic Freedom
Academic Personnel
Faculty Welfare
Graduate Affairs
Information Technology and
Telecommunications Policy
Affirmative Action and Diversity
Library
Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools Planning and Budget
(BOARS)
Committee on Committees
Preparatory Education
Editorial Committee
Privilege and Tenure
Education Abroad
Research Policy
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Educational Policy
ConC recruited representatives for the following Student and Administrative Committees.
ASUCLA Communications Board
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the
Disabled
Chancellor’s Capital Planning Advisory
Committee
Chancellor’s Enrollment Advisory Committee
Student Conduct Committee
Student Fee Advisory Committee
Transportation Services Advisory Board
Wooden Center Board of Governors
ConC also provided nominations to the Statewide Senate, Chancellor and the Executive Vice
Chancellor regarding dean and provost searches, committees and task forces for the following
committees during 2002-03.
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College of Letters and Science Provost Search Committee
Competitiveness Task Forces: Graduate Student Support---Faculty Quality of Life--Deploying Existing Academic Resources, Space, Process for Allocation and Reallocation--Generating New Resources
Comprehensive Review for Graduate and Professional Schools
Director of the American Indian Studies Center Search Committee
Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Search Committee
Independent Substantive Review Committee
New Gender Equity Oversight Committee
Presidential Search-Academic Advisory Committee to replace President Richard Atkinson
Regents’ Professor and Lecturer slate nominations
Search Committee for Dean of the Humanities division in the College of Letters and
Science
UCLA Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Education in a Research Context
We provided nominations for the following five-year administrative reviews.
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Chair
Chair
Chair
Dean
Dean
of
of
of
of
of
the Department of Family Medicine
the Department of Pediatrics
the Department of Ophthalmology
the Anderson Graduate School of Management
the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
ConC provided nominations to serve on the reviews of the following Organized Research Units.
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Jules Stein Eye Institute 5-year review
Center for the study of Women 15-year review
Molecular Biology Institute 15 year review
It is important that faculty have an understanding of our work. We have outlined the scope of
our discussions and actions. We hope that you will utilize this information by bringing it to your
faculty colleagues and encouraging them to serve on a shared governance committee.
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ConC believes it is important to ensure that the slates and committee staffing represent the same
diversity as the campus. The standing committee membership is approximately 30% female,
while female Senate faculty members comprise 21 percent of the faculty.
Academic Senate Reorganization
ConC reviewed the possibility of consolidating several committees and reducing the membership
on several large committees in 2001-02. In 2002-03, the Senate leadership, transferred this
reorganization of the Senate project to a workgroup led by Professor John Edmond, former
Senate Chair. ConC urges that any reorganization of the Senate be done carefully, with full
consultation, and responsiveness to the impacted committees and their constituencies.
We Would like Your Assistance
It is important that the faculty have an understanding of the breath of ConC’s activities. It is
challenging to nominate and recruit faculty members to serve on the standing committees,
statewide committees, student and administrative committees, and on the slates for the search
committees, administrative reviews, and other slates requested of ConC. We need your help in
urging your colleagues to serve. We urge you to speak to faculty members who may not have
been active in Senate committee service and encourage them to serve.
Service on the Committee on Committees
We ask your assistance in encouraging colleagues to run for election and serve on ConC. It is
important that ConC have wide and able representation. The function of ConC is critical to the
Senate. Serving on ConC and other Senate committees is an excellent way to meet colleagues
from throughout the campus and to gain a greater understanding of the operations of UCLA.
Respectfully submitted,
Roger Bourland, Music, CHAIR
Ellen Dubois, History
Yoram Cohen, Chemical Engineering
Hany Elsaleh, Radiation Oncology
Todd Franke, Social Welfare
Malcolm Gordon, Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Philip Harber, Family Medicine
Helen Lavretsky, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science
Otoniel Martinez, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ronald Miech, Mathematics
Donald Tashkin, Medicine
Richard Weiss, History
David Wilkinson, Political Science
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