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Environmental Studies Committee

Welcome to the New College Environmental Studies Committee Home Page. This page provides information about the membership and the Committee charge.

Membership

The Division Chairs, with the consent of their Divisions, annually each appoint one member of their Division to serve as a Divisional representative to the New College Environmental Studies Program.

These three divisional representatives serve, together with the administrative directors of the Environmental Studies Program, as members of the Environmental Studies Steering Committee; one position will also be created for student participation on the Committee whenever not prohibited by state or college regulations.

Members for 2007-2008 Academic Year

Committee Charge

1. The Environmental Studies Steering Committee has responsibility to provide guidance for the academic aspects of the program, specifically, to:

1. define, in consultation with the Provost, the aim and scope of the program;

2. discuss and propose requirements for graduation for an area of concentration in Environmental Studies;

3. propose and review environmental studies curriculum;

4. review and screen faculty and courses for the program;

5. advise the director(s) concerning expenditure of funds for student research support and for educational equipment.

2. Divisional representatives act as liaisons to their respective Divisions and accept responsibility to teach one course per year or to enlist some other Division member to do so; such courses include application and approaches of disciplines of their Division to environmental matters.
    

3. Divisional representatives prepare, prior to each semester, a list of courses relevant to Environmental Studies to be offered by members of their Division. Divisional representatives should also encourage their fellow Division members to offer courses of interest to Environmental Studies students (these courses may sometimes be one module in length). The Environmental Studies Steering Committee should then issue, prior to each semester, a list of courses of special interest to Environmental Studies students.
    

4. The Environmental Studies Steering Committee includes, as part of the requirements for an area of concentration in Environmental Studies, a requirement that each student take an Environmental Studies course in each academic Division and that each student choose at least one faculty member from the Environmental Studies Steering Committee to serve on his/her Baccalaureate Committee.
    

5. The ESP director(s), subject to availability of the external funding designated for use in the Environmental Studies Program, may propose for each semester no more than three adjunct faculty to teach Environmental Studies. These proposed faculty must submit a course syllabus and meet with the Environmental Studies Steering Committee before being recommended to an appropriate Division and to the FASC for adjunct faculty status in that Division with responsibilities to teach and evaluate the specifically approved courses.  A Divisional recommendation to appoint an adjunct is forwarded to the Provost for final approval.
    

6. The Environmental Studies Steering Committee reports regularly to the faculty, as would any other faculty committee.