2022-23 Meeting Schedule

The Faculty Advisory Committee on the Health Sciences meets Tuesdays from 1:30-3 p.m., unless otherwise noted. 

Committee members will be automatically added to a Google Calendar invite for these meetings at the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year. 

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Faculty Senate Bylaws, Article IV., Section 5

B. ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER FACULTY CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

The Academic Health Center Faculty Consultative Committee (AHC FCC) shall represent the faculty at large in the Academic Health Center and not the individual institutes, colleges, schools, or departments.

Membership

The AHC FCC shall be composed of 9 faculty members as follows: 3 from the Medical School (one from Basic Sciences, one from Clinical Sciences, and one from the Medical School Duluth Campus) and 1 each from Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, Veterinary Medicine, and AHC Shared. Members shall be nominated and elected by the colleges’ faculty governance committees.

In case of a faculty vacancy, the remaining members of the Academic Health Center Faculty Consultative shall fill the vacancy, by majority vote, with an interim appointment until the next general election.

The Academic Health Center Faculty Consultative Committee shall elect its chair from amongst its members for a one-year term of office. The chair shall be eligible for re-election to that position.

Duties and Responsibilities

Steering

a. To meet at least monthly to discuss matters of concern to the faculty.

b. To initiate whatever studies it deems necessary and appropriate or to request such studies from the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences or Administrative officers or from the subcommittees.

c. The chair shall meet each semester with the chair of the AHC Student Consultative Committee to discuss issues of concern to both faculty and students, and the two committees shall meet jointly as deemed necessary by the chairs. 

d. To advise the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences on procedures for making administrative appointments and to participate in the selection process.

e. To create and terminate all subcommittees of the AHC FCC.

Executive

a. To serve as a deliberative body of the AHC Faculty Assembly on all major items it deems necessary and appropriate and to call meetings of the AHC Faculty Assembly as needed.

b. To act on behalf of the AHC Faculty Assembly when a decision is required and when it would not be possible to convene a special meeting of the AHC Faculty Assembly in a timely fashion.

c. To report regularly on any matters which, in its judgment, should be brought to the attention of the AHC or specifically to the attention and consideration of the AHC Faculty Assembly.

d. To examine any action taken respecting the AHC by the Board of Regents, the central administration, or by another individual or body having any relationship with the University.

(updated: 5/3/17)

• HS FCC Feedback on SSP Metrics - December 2020
• AHC FCC Position Statement on AHC Structure - June 2018
• AHC FCC Full Report to President Kaler  - February 2018
• Executive Summary: AHC FCC Report to President Kaler  - March 2018
• AHC FCC Report on Proposed Strategic Directions - February 2010

• AHC Faculty Assembly Constitution
• Academy for Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning