Memo from the Subcommittee on Roles, Responsibilities, and the Monitoring of Teaching of the Committee on Graduate Student Teaching to Provost Rosenbaum with recommendations on work expectations for graduate student teachers and the nature of departmental grievance procedures.
This report encapsulates the recommendations of the Pedagogical Training Subcommittee, which believes strongly that training all graduate students in the skills necessary to be effective teachers should be an integral part of graduate education, and it should be a priority for maintaining the University’s high academic standards for undergraduates.
This document presents the rationale, grand intellectual challenges, viability, and practical aspects of how the establishment of the Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) may be realized within the University.
A proposal for the establishment of a University of Chicago Institute for Advanced Study in New Delhi.
Recommendations for the position specifications for the Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering.
This document reports on the impact that the Masters programs in Humanities and Social Science have on the texture of faculty working lives in those Divisions.
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 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.