1: Membership, Election, Tenure

1.1: The Committee shall consist of six elected members subject to the following qualifications: there shall be at least one member from each of the following disciplinary groups: Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and no more than one from any department. (Revised March 12, 1991)

1.2: The term of office shall be two years. Faculty members who will be on a sabbatical or other leave during that period shall not be eligible for membership. (Passed March 12, 1991)

1.3: The Committee shall elect its own chairperson each year.

1.4: The Dean of the Faculty shall be a member with the responsibility for providing liaison with the administration and maintaining the Committee files.

1.5: Members of the Faculty Research Committee are ineligible for grant programs administered by the Committee except for the Student Research Grant Program. (Passed October 10, 2000)

2: Jurisdiction, Obligations, Procedures

2.1: The Committee's primary responsibility is encouraging Faculty research. These duties will include:

2.1.a: making decisions concerning the distribution of funds allocated for research expense grants and research leaves;

2.1.b: evaluating proposals for external funding where there are more applicants than the College may nominate;

2.1.c: requesting College funds for other scholarly activities that it deems important to Faculty research;

2.1.d: administering the Faculty Research Lecture series.

2.2: The Committee shall advise the President and Dean of the Faculty on policies with respect to the distribution of external grant funds designated for the support of Faculty research. The President or Dean shall report on the distribution of these funds to the FRC.

2.3: The Committee shall report regularly to the Faculty in the following ways:

2.3.a: calling each year for the submission of Faculty applications for the grant programs it administers;

2.3.b: informing the Faculty at appropriate times during the year of those research proposals which have been funded;

2.3.c: informing the Faculty at appropriate times during the year of the budgeted allocations for Faculty research.

(Passed April 11, 1978; Revised March 17, 1987; Revised February 9, 1988; Revised September 17, 1996)