Policy & Committee
Research Committee
Auspices
The Research Committee is a standing committee of the College of Design, Art & Performance and receives authority for its actions through that body which includes the Faculty Advisory Council, the Dean, and the Directors' Council.
Charge
The Research Committee is responsible for:
- Supporting and promoting the research/creative activities of the faculty of the College.
- Supporting and promoting the research/creative activities of non-ranked faculty, if their assigned duties include a significant percentage designated for independent research.
- Assisting in the dissemination of faculty research/creative activities throughout the College, the University, and the worldwide community.
- Advising the Dean, the Faculty Advisory Council and Directors' Council, and other administrative officials on matters pertaining to policies and procedures intended to promote research/creative activities throughout the College and University.
- Advising the Faculty and units within the College on the scope of research and strategies for supporting individual and group faculty research/creative activities.
Operating Procedures
The Research Committee will develop its own operating procedures, subject to approval by the Dean, the Faculty Advisory Council, and the Directors' Council, which will include:
- Provision for meeting with and advising the Dean, the Directors' Council and other administrative officials on matters pertaining to policies and procedures intended to promote research/creative activities throughout the College.
- Provision for promoting faculty research and its dissemination throughout the College and the university community, thus, increasing visibility in the University and beyond the larger academic/professional community.
- Provision for review of proposals to support research/creative activities and for awarding grants to College faculty from funds allocated for that purpose.
- Provision for assisting the Associate Dean of the College in recommending the disbursement of College research funds for faculty development and research/creative activities.
- Provision for advising the College, its centers and units on appropriate ways of disseminating information to faculty and administration on the availability and distribution of funds for research/creative activities.
- Provision for developing a clearinghouse of funding sources.
- Provision for advising other University committees on criteria for evaluating research/creative activities.
- Provision for appropriate liaison with the University Research Council and other university committees whose function may relate to the promotion of research/creative activities at USF.
- Provision for the encouragement of interdisciplinary research/creative activities among the units and those outside the College of Design, Art & Performance.
Membership
Membership will consist of two tenured or tenure-earning faculty representatives from each academic unit, elected by majority vote of the members from their unit for a three-year term (totaling 6 members). All representatives should have demonstrated productivity in research/creative activities. Members are to be elected for staggered three-year terms, one-third retiring each year. A quorum is half of the total membership. In instances where a committee member is directly involved in a research proposal under evaluation by the committee, the member will abstain from discussions and voting.
Ex-Officio Members
Ex-officio members include one CDAP representative currently serving on the University Research Council (voting) and one CDAP representative currently serving on the University Graduate Council (non-voting). Furthermore, the Associate Dean will serve as a member-at-large, voting only to break a tie. Two members of the Institute for Research in Art will serve as non-voting members.
Chair/Vice Chair of Research Committee
The Chair and Vice-Chair will be elected by the members of the committee. Each will be a member serving the second or third year of his/her term.