Task forces are temporary ad hoc committees formed to address specific policy issues. Advisory committees are formed to provide advice or feedback to administrators. They are usually not temporary committees.
Active Task Forces
Tenure-Track Faculty Salary & Rental Assistance Task Force, 2024
The Tenure-Track Faculty Salary & Rental Assistance Task Force will assist the Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC) in reviewing the Periodic Implementation Guidelines (PIG) that have shaped faculty salary planning since 2016, and will study how tenure-track faculty rental assistance programs are structured in order to recommend improvements. The Task Force report and recommendations to the Faculty Affairs Committee are anticipated by January 2025.
To Write a History of the University, 2024
The UCC convened and staffed this task force in Spring 2024. The Task Force will write an outward facing history of the Franciscan mission and the Jesuit University that can be used or referred to in University publications.
TESE Review, 2023
The UCC convened and staffed this task force in Spring 2023. The Task Force will:
- Familiarize itself with the Teaching Effectiveness Standards and Evaluation (TESE) Guidelines, timelines and department requirements
- Review department TESE drafts and provide feedback to departments/deans at the spring (1) draft and (2) revision stage and (3) after piloting, review, and revision of the final standards the following year (see Task Force Charge for timeline)
- Formulate a recommendation whether the group should persist as a teaching subcommittee of FAC; submit to FAC for consideration in Fall 2025, at the conclusion of its task. If a positive recommendation is made and supported by FAC, FAC will make a proposal to the UCC.
Active Advisory Committees
Core Curriculum Revision Committee
The Core Curriculum Revision Committee will coordinate the design of a core curriculum for Santa Clara University that educates citizens and leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion, cultivating knowledge and faith to build a more humane, just, and sustainable world.
Core Curriculum Revision Committee Charge
Core Curriculum Revision Committee Membership
Reports:
Faculty-Staff Joint Committee for Policy Revision
The General Counsel has identified a number of policies that either need to be updated or created. Many of those policies apply either to all employees (faculty and staff) or to the entire community (faculty, staff, and students). This initial joint committee of faculty, staff and administrators will develop two critical policies as a pilot for addressing other policies in need of development or revision, so that the Faculty and Staff Affairs Committees are able to move these policies through their proper governance processes.
If this pilot initiative is successful, the Faculty-Staff Joint Committee for Policy Revision may be reestablished as a standing committee to address changes to policy as needed, with possible membership changes.
Faculty-Staff Joint Committee for Policy Revision Charge
Faculty-Staff Joint Committee for Policy Revision Membership
Ciocca-Koch Gift Oversight and Accountability, 2019
This advisory committee advises the Provost’s Office on the maintenance of academic freedom and integrity and the autonomy of the University in decisions related to expenditures of this gift; the committee will report at least annually to the Faculty Senate Council, Staff Senate, and Associated Student Government for the duration of the gift.
Advisory Committee Annual Report for 2019-20 (for copies of supporting documents contact the Collabortive Governance Specialist)
Advisory Committee Annual Report for 2020-21
Advisory Committee Report for 2021-22 and 2022-23
Advisory Committee Report for 2023-24
Advisory Committee Report for 2024-25
Faculty Advisory Committee to the Provost on Budget Priorities, 2019
This advisory committee advises the Provost on matters regarding: long-term budget priorities to support the university's vision and strategic directions, and financial framework and infrastructure impacting academic and faculty affairs.
Completed Task Forces and Advisory Committees
This section is reserved for University Coordinating Committee (UCC) convened Task Forces and Advisory Committees that have completed (or terminated) their charge. This section may contain final reports, progress reports, charges, membership lists, meeting agendas and minutes as well administrator responses to recommendations if applicable.
To access documents from Task Forces and Advisory Committees convened between 2010-2024, please visit the following Completed Task Forces and Advisory Committees archived webpage.