Student-Faculty Committees
There are a number of student-faculty committees. With the exception of the Executive and Admissions Committees, these commitÂtees do not take formal action but do make recommendations to the faculty. A brief description of student-faculty committees follows.
The Admissions Committee is responsible for formulating admission policies with faculty consultation, including determining the optimum size of the entering class, setting admission standards and selecting applicants.
The responsibility of this committee is to evaluate and when appropriate, to recommend changes in the curriculum. The Curriculum Committee is also charged with the responsibility of studying the grading policies.
The Executive Committee has the responsibility for implementing basic administrative policy where committee action is necessary. The Committee performs functions specifically delegated by the law faculty or the Dean. Additionally, the functions of this Committee include: hearing grade grievance petitions, considering petitions for waiving course and credit requirements, ruling on academic disqualification and probation matters, acting on petitions for readmission, acting on petitions for reduced or excess course loads, acting on petitions to change exam times that are referred by the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, acting on applications to take more than (6) six units of Independent Research, and approving class standings. The student members of this Committee may be excluded from any meeting at the motion of the chairperson whenever he or she deems the presence of students inappropriate. Additionally, any student presenting a petition to the Committee may exclude the student members during the consideration of that petition.
The Executive Committee also serves as the College's Honor Council when, as the Honor Council, the procedures outlined in the Honor Code govern (see p.66 and following of this Handbook). Students requesting Executive Committee action should contact Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Dr. Willie Jordan-Curtis, for necessary advice and information on proper procedure.
Faculty Selection
This Committee is charged with responsibility for the preliminary recommendations of temporary and permanent faculty appointments.
The President of the Student Bar Association (SBA), the Chairperson of the Board of Governors and one other student, selected by the student body in the manner it may determine, are invited to participate as nonÂvoting student representatives at all regular faculty meetings, or certain portions thereof, at which the Dean deems their attendance appropriate.
One or more other students may be invited to attend a particÂular faculty meeting when it is determined that the student(s) may contribute significantly to the resolution of a specific issue before the faculty.
Updated: 08/11/2010