University Committees

The Athletic Advisory Council recommends to the Athletic Director policies and programs for intercollegiate athletics at Texas State University, including activities related to emphasizing the importance of rules compliance. Council meets as needed and members serve one-year terms, which may be renewed.

The Campus Information Resource Advisory Council (VPIT) oversees campus-wide information technology (IT) planning, assessment, and related IT policy development activities for both academic and central administrative information services.  Advises the President and Vice President for Information Technology on appropriate planning priorities and resource allocations that would target successful implementation of the campus' IT strategic plan.

The Honor Code Council is comprised of trained faculty and student members who hear cases of alleged academic dishonesty.  The Honor Code Council will consider evidence offered by both the faculty member and the student through a hearing.  It will then render its recommendation to the dean of the college where the alleged Honor Code violation occurred.  In some instances, cases may be referred to the Dean of Students Office for further disciplinary review.  Faculty Senate appoints faculty members as needed, and Student Government appoints student members as needed.

The ADA/504 Compliance and Steering Committee on Disabilities (VPSA) serves as a clearinghouse for disability issues and coordinated the university efforts to ensure that Texas State policies, programs, and services comply with ADA. Makes recommendations to the President's Cabinet and the Chief Compliance Officer, regarding the university's compliance and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).

The charge of the Campus Facilities Planning Committee (VPFSS) is to provide strategic direction for the dissemination of capital funds, the allocation of space as a university resource, and modifications to facilities in general to appropriately support the university's Strategic Plan and the Campus Master Plan. The Committee recommends to the President, annually, updates to the Higher Education Assistance Funds table and related construction timelines. The Committee recommends to the President, annually, updates to the deferred maintenance schedule. Committee meets once a month, although sometimes approvals are handled by email. The committee meets during the summer and membership terms are renewable.

The success of the Campus Master Plan will stem not from the breadth of its vision but rather from the implementation of its proposals and attention to good communication among all interested and affected parties to the process. The charge of this Committee is to recommend the sequencing, timing, and scheduling for each implementation project. This will include coordination between offices and communication to the public of upcoming activities such as street closures, parking lot designation changes, rerouting of buses, utility shutdowns, etc.

The Student Service Fee Advisory Committee (VPSA) reviews and recommends to the President expenditures of student service fee income:
          1) annual departmental budget requests
          2) expenditures from reserves.
Also reviews budget recommendations from the Student Center, Campus Recreation, and Student Health Center Fee Advisory Committees before forwarding to the President.

As defined and established by the Rules and Regulations of the Regents of The Texas State University System, the Texas State University Master Plan (VPFSS) committee is concerned with the development of a 10-year University Master Plan and functions in an advisory capacity to the Board of Regents when the University Master Plan is under review and update. This Committee is approved by the Chancellor or his/her designee.

The University Safety Committee (VPFSS) is responsible for the overall safety and security of the university and oversee developing and approving safety policies. Advises the university administration in promoting an environment that is safe from recognized hazards for faculty, staff, students, and visitors. This committee serves as an umbrella organization for three safety committees: Environmental Health and Safety Committee, Research Safety Committee, and Security and Personal Safety Committee.

The Transportation Services Advisory Council provides a conduit for community input regarding policies and other issues related to safe, comprehensive, economical, and efficient transportation services. These include: parking, transit, pedestrian, motorist, and cyclist services and safety. The Council provides advice regarding policy recommendations on these issues to the Director of Transportation Services who seeks approval by President's Cabinet when necessary. Council meets once a month during long semesters and meeting times are set by members' schedules. Members serve three-year terms.

The Environment & Sustainability Committee works to increase communication and create synergy around environmental and sustainability efforts of administrators, staff, faculty, and students by monitoring, coordinating and communicating with departments and relevant committees and student organizations. Its goals are to promote and publicize best practices, increase sustainability across the university, and strengthen Texas State's stewardship of our environment. The committee meets twice monthly during long semesters.

The University Curriculum Committee receives and evaluates all curricular requests, including program and course changes, new degree program and course proposals. The committee is comprised of two faculty members per college, plus two Library representatives.

The only set UCC meeting is in January and February when courses being added or deleted by schools, departments or programs are reviewed. After that, the committee meets as needed. The time commitment depends on the number of proposals for new programs or degrees that are ready to be reviewed at any one time. The UCC works closely with the Director of Curriculum Services and responds to the timeline of curriculum proposals submitted by College Curriculum Committees. The members of the UCC are also required to serve on their respective college curriculum committees.

The University Lecturers Committee reviews proposals from departments and groups to bring outstanding lecturers to the university, and apportions funds approved for this purpose. The committee is comprised of one faculty member per college, plus one Library representative. The committee meets once per year, January-March, for approximately 2-3 hours. Application review varies depending on number of applicants; annual time commitment is from a few to several hours.

The University Performing Arts Committee typically meets once a month during long semesters. Committee members also attend and assist at two evening University Arts events each semester. Work is generally spread out over the year, but it is a little heavier during the fall semester, when the arts event series for the following academic year is being finalized. The typical time commitment is about 16 hours per semester.

The Library Committee recommends policies for the operation of the library and popularizes its resources. The committee is comprised of 12 faculty members, plus two Library representatives and two students appointed by the Associated Student Government.  The committee meets once a semester, usually in October and March. Typically, the committee meets no more than 15 hours per semester. Members may review projects that compete for funding, or other policies and library documents.

The San Marcos Neighborhood Commission provides advisory body to the City Council, other Commissions and staff to seek solutions to common problems and issues within Neighborhoods.

Formed by the Office of the Provost, the Managing Textbook Costs Committee has been working for two years to encourage the adoption of affordable learning materials in courses across the curriculum. Efforts by faculty to reduce textbook and other learning materials costs over the past few years have saved students several million dollars. Since the committee was formed, we have organized grant funding for faculty to integrate free and low-cost learning materials into their courses, streamlined processes to help students identify courses in the schedule of classes that use low- and no-cost books, and drafted a dashboard to measure the success of Texas State’s efforts in this area. Our student representative to the committee is a valuable voice for students in our shared effort to reduce the overall cost of higher education.

Provides guidance in the overall operation of student media outlets and to assist in the selection of the student executives of those respective outlets.  As a committee member, you will provide input from the student body perspective.  The committee meets once a semester usually around October and again in March for a two hour meeting.