| Name | Type | Description | Membership | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Calendar Committee | University | Ad hoc every 2 years. Develop and recommend the University calendar to the President, including the calendar for summer session. Consults with Academic Affairs Council, Graduate Council, Faculty Senate, staff, and students in the calendar's development | 1 Registrar (co-chair) 1 Financial Aid 1 First Year Program 1 Dean 4 faculty 1 AFSCME 2 MSUAASF 1 graduate student 1 student (graduate or undergraduate) | |
| Judith A. Strong Endowment Committee | College | Responsible for both the determination of the speaker for the Strong Symposium and for recipients of the Strong Scholars Research Award. | Administration • CSHE Dean (ex-officio, non-voting) IFO • 1 Biosciences • 1 Chemistry and Biochemistry • 1 Physics and Astronomy Student • 1 Biosciences • 1 Chemistry and Biochemistry • 1 Physics and Astronomy | |
| Guided Learning Pathways Committee | Programmatic | With an equity lens, review, assess, and improve key components of MSUM’s student success initiatives, including curriculum design, orientation, first-year experience, and academic advising. | Administration • Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (co-chair) • Vice President for Enrollment and Student Affairs (co-chair) • 1 dean IFO • 2 MSUAASF • 3 MAPE • 1 AFSCME • 1 Student • 1 (undergraduate or graduate) | |
| Athletic Compliance Review Committee | Compliance | Established to provide a forum for conversation regarding MSUM Athletics policies, procedures, timelines, and deadlines; recent NCAA and/or NSIC interpretations ; and general rules education of the newly adopted NCAA legislation. Will meet in early September, November, February, and April. | Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance and Student Services (chair) Faculty Athletics Representative Registrar or designee Director of Scholarship and Financial Aid or designee Director of Admissions or designee Director of the Academic Support Center or designee University Comptroller or designee | |
| College Recruiting and Engagement Committee - CSHE | Advisory | Develop and recommend a comprehensive recruiting plan and a comprehensive engagement plan for the college. Make recommendations related to on-campus recruiting events, recruiting communication plans, promotional materials, community engagement activities, and marketing/outreach activities. Review and assess recruiting and engagement activities for effectiveness. | Dean (chair) Faculty Department Chair from each department Student Relations Coordinator from college 1 Admissions 1 Marketing and Communication Up to 2 additional staff members from college | |
| College Recruiting and Engagement Committee - CEHS | Advisory | Develop and recommend a comprehensive recruiting plan and a comprehensive engagement plan for the college. Make recommendations related to on-campus recruiting events, recruiting communication plans, promotional materials, community engagement activities, and marketing/outreach activities. Review and assess recruiting and engagement activities for effectiveness. | Dean (chair) Faculty Department Chair from each department Student Relations Coordinator from college 1 Admissions 1 Marketing and Communication Up to 2 additional staff members from college | |
| College Recruiting and Engagement Committee - CAH | Advisory | Develop and recommend a comprehensive recruiting plan and a comprehensive engagement plan for the college. Make recommendations related to on-campus recruiting events, recruiting communication plans, promotional materials, community engagement activities, and marketing/outreach activities. Review and assess recruiting and engagement activities for effectiveness. | Dean (chair) Faculty Department Chair from each department Student Relations Coordinator from college 1 Admissions 1 Marketing and Communication Up to 2 additional staff members from college | |
| College Recruiting and Engagement Committee - CBAC | Advisory | Develop and recommend a comprehensive recruiting plan and a comprehensive engagement plan for the college. Make recommendations related to on-campus recruiting events, recruiting communication plans, promotional materials, community engagement activities, and marketing/outreach activities. Review and assess recruiting and engagement activities for effectiveness. | Dean (chair) Faculty Department Chair from each department Student Relations Coordinator from college 1 Admissions 1 Marketing and Communication Up to 2 additional staff members from college | |
| 19A Peer Review Committee | College | Provides recommendations to the Dean with regard to the award of IFO 19A professional development funds. The committee reviews proposals from the faculty for research, professional development, or assistance with seeking terminal degrees, and make recommendations for funding. The Dean may also make recommendations. Both recommendations are forwarded to the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. The committee will consider applications for adjunct funding requests at the beginning of each semester. | Dean (ex-officio, non-voting). Each academic department is entitled to 1 member on the college Peer Review Committee. If a department has more than 1 program and more than twenty (20) FTE faculty, the department may select two members as long as they are from different programs within the department. Two adjunct instructors per college (if no adjunct instructors are available, these positions may be filled by full-time or part-time, fixed-term faculty members). All members must be Faculty Association members. All members are selected for 1 academic year at a time. Members may serve up to 4 consecutive, 1 year terms, but must then step down for at least a year. | |
| Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Steering Committee | Steering | Responsible for the strategic direction of the Center, including making recommendations about the budget, advice and support on curricular and other departmentally based activities. | Dean of CBAC (ex-officio, non-voting) 5 faculty with interest and expertise in social innovation and entrepreneurship 2 students (undergraduate or graduate) | |
| Center for Geospatial Studies Steering Committee | Steering | Responsible for the strategic direction of the Center, oversight of the budget, and advice and support on curricular and other departmentally based activities related to the Center. | Dean of CSHE 2 faculty from Anthropology and Earth Science 1 faculty from Biosciences 4 faculty with an interest and expertise in geospatial studies 2 students (undergraduate or graduate) | |
| Academic Advising Committee | University | Makes recommendations on improving academic advising procedures. | Director of Academic Support Center (chair) 1 Admissions Office 1 Financial Aid Office 1 Registrar Office 2 Faculty 2 MSUAASF 2 Students | |
| Undergraduate Admissions Appeals Committee | University | Reviews appeals of individuals who did not meet automatic admissions criteria and makes a decision in each case. Due to matters of confidentiality, committee meetings are closed. | Director of Admissions (Co-Chair) 4 Faculty (including 1 Faculty Co-Chair) Admissions Representative Assistant Director of Processing and Data Analytics Director of Academic Support Center Campus Diversity Officer 1 Registrar Office | |
| Dragon Dome Predesign Steering Committee | Programmatic | Assist in the planning of a new, freestanding facility to provide training and practice space for student-athletes, as well as some general purpose space for non-athlete students. Participants will be expected to assist in establishing program scope, and to provide feedback and suggestions throughout the predesign process. There will be opportunities to engage additional faculty, staff, students, and other subject matter experts for particular meetings. | Executive Director of Facilities Management (chair) Gender Equity in Athletics Committee Chair or Title IX Coordinator 1 Recreation and Wellness 1 Student Life Vice President for Finance and Administration Vice President for University Advancement Vice President for Enrollment Management & Student Affairs Athletic Director 2 IFO (1 from Athletics, and 1 from HPE) 1 MSUAAF 1 AFSCME 3 students (1 student athlete, 1 from Intramurals/Club Sports and 1 from student life) | |
| Elections Committee | Faculty Association | The committee is responsible for consulting with units about changes in configuration of those units and making recommendations to the Senate where such changes are necessary or desired. They shall also give notice of filing periods, arrange appropriate times and places for holding elections, schedule the staffing of election tables, publish election procedures and distribute necessary forms, conduct elections, and tabulate and publish the results. | Four MSUM FA members | |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum (LASC) Committee | University | Assure that courses proposed for LASC designation adequately meet LASC and Minnesota Transfer Curriculum goals and outcomes. | IFO • 1 from each college and 1 Librarian or Coach (chair selected by Faculty Senate for 2-year term) | |
| University Planning and Budget Committee | University | Integrates strategic planning and budgeting to ensure the University’s financial viability and the strategic, integrated, and transparent alignment of available revenues to our mission and strategic priorities. Provides input and feedback to the administration throughout the annual budget planning process. Coordinates planning efforts with the Minnesota State system office. Subcommittees: • Budget Planning Parameters o Purpose: Use data and information to propose a range of revenue and expense projections to use in developing MSUM’s more favorable, most likely, and less favorable budget planning scenarios for the next two fiscal years. Proposal reviewed by the University Planning & Budget Committee for recommendation to the President. Meets during fall semester each year. • Position Review o Purpose: Provide input and feedback about filling positions after the budget planning process has concluded for any given fiscal year. The subcommittee’s input and feedback is considered by the President’s Cabinet in making the final administrative decision about filling positions. | Membership: Positional • Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion • Executive Director of Budget and Business Services Administration • Vice President for Finance and Administration (chair, ex-officio, non-voting) • Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (ex-officio, non-voting) • Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs (ex-officio, non-voting) • Vice President of University Advancement and MSUM Foundation (ex-officio, non-voting) • Vice President of Human Resources and Workplace Equity (ex-officio, non-voting) • Associate Vice President for Finance and Administration and Chief Information Officer • Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ex-officio, non-voting) • 1 Academic Affairs • 1 dean • Athletics Director IFO • 1 from each college and 1 Librarian or Coach (Unless there are insufficient volunteers) MSUAASF • 1 MAPE • 1 AFSCME • 2 MMA • 1 Student • 2 (undergraduate or graduate) | |
| Presidential Search | University | Need description | Need info | |
| Veteran's Services Committee | University | Review and assess the University’s current services, programs, policies and practices related to veterans and their families. Additionally, the committee will strive to iensure that effective delivery of services and programs is a coordinated and comprehensive effort as identified in MSUM’s Beyond the Yellow Ribbon (BYR) Campus Action Plan. The committee will identify best practices and offer recommendations and strategies for providing integrated services and programs to veteran students and their families that meet or exceed the criteria for a designated Beyond the Yellow Ribbon campus. The outcome of this committee will be to establish and sustain an internal Yellow Ribbon network uniting areas within the university community to proactively support and recognize service members and military families through creation of new programs and services and by enhancing and improving existing ones. | Other co-chair elected by the committee. Positional • 1 Scholarship and Financial Aid • 1 Registrar • 1 Career Development Center • 1 Veterans Resource Center • 1 Admissions (co-chair) • 1 Accessibility Resources • 1 Academic Success Center • 1 Business Services • 1 Counseling Services • 1 Marketing • Local National Guard Representative • Veterans Community Representative • City of Moorhead Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Liaison Administration • Vice President for Human Resources and Workplace Equity • 1 Academic Affairs IFO • 1 MSUAASF • 1 AFSCME • 1 Student • 2 (undergraduate or graduate) (military connected preferred) | |
| Institutional Review Board (IRB) | Compliance | Established to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects recruited to participate in research activities conducted under the auspices of the institution. Has the authority to approve, require modifications in, or disapprove all research activities that fall within its jurisdiction as specified by both the federal regulations and local institutional policy. Research that has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board may be subject to review and disapproval by officials of the institution. However, those officials may not approve research if it has been disapproved by the Institutional Review Board. | Positional • 1 external with experience in research involving risk to human subjects Administration • AVP for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies (Chair) IFO • 8 Students • 1 undergraduate • 1 graduate | |
| Intercollegiate Athletics Committee | University | Makes recommendations and acts as a liaison between Intercollegiate Athletics and the larger university community. The issues the committee deals with may include the academic performance of student athletes (including student athlete aggregate GPAs, graduation rates, and retention rates), the academic relations between student athletes and faculty across campus, academic/athletic scheduling conflicts, students athlete conduct, NCAA and/or Title IX violations, have input into the review of the Athletic Director, and any other topic relating to Intercollegiate Athletics or the Athletic Department that the committee deems relevant. | Positional • 1 Financial Aid • Director of Academic Success Center or designee • 1 Registrar • 1 facilities • 2 community members Administration • 1 Academic Affairs • Athletic Director (non-voting) IFO • Faculty Athletic Representative (IFO) (chair, voting member) • 4 Students • 1 student at large (undergraduate or graduate) | |
| Higher Learning Commission Coordinating Committee | University | Makes recommendations concerning the University's compliance with HLC criteria for accreditation and assists the Vice President for Academic Affairs in University planning to maintain HLC accredited status, including recommendations and assistance relevant to HLC mandated institutional self-study. | Positional • 2 Academic Affairs • 1 Enrollment Management • 1 Office of Institutional Effectiveness • 1 Student Affairs • 1 Finance and Administration Administration • 1 Enrollment Management Administrator or designee • 1 Dean or Academic Affairs representative (Co-chair) IFO • 1 from each college and 1 Librarian or Coach (Co-chair elected biennially by the committee) Student • 3 (undergraduate or graduate) | |
| Housing Contract Release and Exemption Appeals Committee | Advisory | Reviews student appeals regarding housing contract release and exemption and makes a decision on the appeal in each case. Due to matters of confidentiality committee meetings are closed. | Positional • 2 Housing and Residential Life designees (1 is chair) • Financial Aid designee • Business Services designee • Center for Global Engagement designee • Accessibility Resources designee • Counseling Services designee IFO • 1 | |
| Financial Aid & Academic Suspension Appeals Committee | Student Affairs | Reviews student appeals regarding eligibility to receive financial aid and makes decisions regarding early reinstatement from academic suspension, making recommendations for further action when deemed appropriate. Due to matters of confidentiality, committee meetings are closed. | Positional • Academic Success Center Coordinator of Academic Intervention (chair) • 1 Business Services • 1 Registrar • 1 Financial Aid IFO • 2 MSUAASF • 2 Student • 2 (undergraduate or graduate) | |
| University Assessment Committee | University | Coordinates the University’s academic and co-curricular assessment. Reviews all departmental assessment of student learning outcomes plans and reports and makes recommendations to the dean/director for approval and action. Conducts assessment of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum (LASC). The committee also reviews assessment procedures and makes recommendations regarding programmatic assessment. The committee does not engage in personnel assessment. | Positional • Assessment Coordinator (Co-Chair) • 1 Enrollment Management and Student Affairs (also serves on the Student Life Pathways Advisory Board • 1 Office of Institutional Research • 1 Registrar Administrative • 1 Academic Affairs (co-chair) IFO • 1 from each college and 1 Librarian or Coach (unless there are insufficient volunteers) MSUAASF • 2 Student • 2 students (undergraduate or graduate) |