Report from the Faculty Committee on the Quality of Academic Life on the issues that most challenge the University's commitment to a stimulating academic life for faculty and recommended improvements for consideration.
This document details the Faculty Committee on the Quality of Academic Life's recommendations and notes the progress made to date.
In this report, the Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate and Professional Student International Travel assesses the nature and scope of University-sponsored or -sanctioned graduate and professional school international activities and to recommend policies, procedures, and resources for the safe and effective conduct of such activities.
In February 2010, Provost Rosenbaum asked faculty members to serve on an ad hoc committee to review university faculty compensation practices. The charge to the committee was: 1. What are the appropriate factors to consider as we seek to reward our colleagues in accord with our ideals of outstanding scholarship, teaching and citizenship? and 2. Would schools and divisions benefit from more formal processes, or articulated guidelines, with respect to salary setting?
Report from the Biosafety Advisory Group on the external review of the biosafety programs and pathogen research labs on campus and the evaluation of the significance of two biosafety events on campus.
In September 2012, the Provost appointed two committees to advise the faculty and administration in devising a strategy in the area of on-line education—one focusing on courses for credit and the other on courses offered without credit. This report sets forth our recommendations for the University of Chicago in the short-run (i.e., two years) in connection with the following potential situations: (1) faculty of the University of Chicago who wish to offer classes either partially or entirely in an on-line format to students enrolled at the University of Chicago; (2) students who matricu
The Provost established this committee in Winter Quarter, 2013. His charge to the Committee is reproduced in Appendix I. The committee was established in the aftermath of demonstrations at the Center for Care and Discovery that led to arrests and disciplinary actions against demonstrators and allegations of misconduct against the University of Chicago Police Department. The events surrounding those demonstrations were addressed by a separate investigation and report, and those specific events are not the subject of this Committee’s work.
This document reports on the working environments (climate) of the Natural Science departments in the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. It created from the lengthy (over 100 page) report of the research findings from in-depth interviews with 112 faculty members conducted by NORC on behalf of Northwestern University and The University of Chicago. The goal of these interviews was to explore faculty perceptions of institutional climate and to identify practices that may lead to increased faculty satisfaction.
The Committee on Freedom of Expression at the University of Chicago was appointed in July 2014 by President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Eric D. Isaacs.