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Indiana University School of Optometry Committees & Assignments Academic Year 2006/2007 |
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Numbers in ( ) indicate the academic year first appointed to the committee.
Academic Fairness Committee Academic Fairness Committee considers, arbitrates, and adjudicates grading disputes in cases of procedural errors and in cases where evaluation on non-academic grounds is alleged. Issues dealing with substantive quality of the student's academic performance and involving intrinsic, professional, academic judgments by a faculty member lie outside the committee's jurisdiction. The committee is composed of three students and three faculty members appointed by the dean of the IU School of Optometry. The faculty members serve 3-year terms on a rotating basis to preserve continuity. Committee Members:
Academic Review Committee The Academic Review Committee reviews the records of all students not making satisfactory academic progress to determine whether the student should be dismissed. The committee also determines whether a student should be reinstated and reviews all students who have earned more than one "D" grade in an academic area in order to recommend which course must be repeated. The committee reviews and provides interpretation and guidance to faculty in situations that arise when students request a variance from an established procedure. The committee is chaired by the associate dean for academic affairs and is made up of the director of Student Administration and three faculty members. The faculty members are appointed by the dean for 3-year terms and may be reappointed. Committee Members:
Admissions Committee The Admissions Committee formulates policies and procedures for the admission of students to the optometry program, determines the criteria to be emphasized in the admissions process, assures that legal guidelines are followed; reviews the files of all applicants, and determines the students to be admitted. The Admissions Committee is composed of faculty members appointed by the dean and the director of Student Administration. One of the faculty members serves as chair of the committee. Committee Members:
Awards and Honors Committee The Awards and Honors Committee publicizes the available student awards. It receives nominations and applications for awards and determines the recipients of the awards when appropriate. The committee is composed of five faculty members appointed by the dean. Committee Members:
Budgetary Affairs Advisory Committee The Budgetary Affairs Advisory Committee advises the dean with regard to the use of School of Optometry funds. The committee consists of 3 faculty members, a staff member, the president of the student body, and the executive associate dean for budgetary planning and administration. The dean is an ex-officio member of the committee and the associate dean is the chair of the committee. The faculty elect the faculty members on the committee for 3-year terms. The staff member is elected by the staff for a 3-year term. Committee Members:
Clinical Care Quality Assurance and Credentialing Committee Clinical Care Quality Assurance and Credentialing Committee is comprised of the director of clinics, the clinic manager, and three clinic faculty members. The Quality Assurance and Credentialing Committee is responsible for maintaining and overseeing the quality and completeness of all clinic patient records, quality of patient care, conducting audits, monitoring of clinical activity, and credentials faculty to serve in the various clinics of the school. The committee reports to the clinic director and the entire clinic faculty. Yearly activities include, but are not limited to, monitoring chart reviews as conducted in courses V680 and V656. Special audits may be conducted upon the request of the clinic faculty, the director of clinics, or the dean of the school.
Continuing Education Committee The committee annually develops an innovative continuing education program for the optometric profession. The program can include lectures, workshops, seminars, symposia, and other formats of interest to the profession. The programs may be presented in the School of Optometry facilities or at other locations deemed appropriate. The committee should consider national and international programs. The committee may consider other modes of providing continuing education including correspondence, Internet, and CD-ROM delivered courses. The presenters may be School of Optometry faculty as well as other qualified individuals. The committee should develop a marketing program to inform a wide range of practitioners and other individuals of the programs to assure an adequate attendance. The committee should develop appropriate survey tools to determine the courses desired by our audience. Likewise, a method of evaluating each program presented should be carried out. The committee should review and recommend a reimbursement policy for presenters to the dean. The committee members are appointed by the dean. Committee Members:
Curriculum Committee The Curriculum Committee maintains preliminary authority over matters pertaining to the optometric curriculum, including review and approval of requests for new courses, review and approval of requests for changes to previously approved courses, and oversight responsibility for ongoing curriculum review. Recommendations for additions, deletions or modifications in the curriculum are administered by the committee. Recommendations for changes to the curriculum must be approved by the school's associate dean for academic affairs, dean, the IUPUI dean of faculties, and the university registrar. The Curriculum Committee consists of four faculty members (with the associate dean for academic affairs as chair), the director of Student Administration, and a representative from the IU Optometric Student Association (IUOSA). The faculty members are appointed by the dean for 3-year terms. Committee Members:
Dean's Advisory Committee The Dean's Advisory Committee is made up of leaders in the optometric profession who meet to advise the dean on the future direction of the school, meet and work with the faculty on professional matters, interface with students, and serve as informed advocates for the school. Committee Members:
Dean's Diversity Advisory Committee The charge to the committee members includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) help the school redesign and improve its minority recruitment program; 2) help recruit minority students; 3) be available to advise minority students in their area; 4) encourage other practitioners to recruit minority students; and 5) advise the dean with respect to making IU Optometry a positive place for minority students. The committee will meet once a year (or more often as needed). The committee is appointed by the dean. Committee Members:
Dean's Student Advisory Committee The Dean's Student Advisory Committee meets with the dean 2 to 3 times a semester to voice any student concerns, to make recommendations to the dean, and for updating on student activities and school plans and news. The meetings are called and chaired by the president of the Indiana University Optometry Student Association (IUOSA). The committee consists of the IUOSA president and vice president, the trustee and trustee-elect of the Indiana Chapter of the American Optometric Student Organization (AOSA), president of Volunteer Optometry Students for Humanity (VOSH), a representative of the National Optometric Student Association (NOSA), president of the Indiana student chapter of Beta Sigma Kappa (BSK), and president of the Fellowship of Christian Optometrists (FCO). Committee Members:
Development Committee The committee advises the development officer, helps formulate the development program, obtains input as to needs, determines what the fund raising priorities should be, and helps to identify and suggest sources of funding and related topics. Committee Members:
Emergency Control Committee The Responsibilities of the Emergency Control Committee are:
Additional responsibilities include reviewing the Emergency Action Plan annually and making revisions as necessary, instructing personnel of their duties (if any) in a given situation, and planning training exercises to test the evacuation plan. Committee Members:
Equipment Committee Each year there are funds allotted for the purchase of equipment. The Equipment Committee solicits equipment requests from faculty and administration then determines the priority for spending these funds. The committee is composed of the associate dean for academic affairs, the associate dean for research, the director of the clinics, director of the Optometric Technology Program, and chair of the Technology Committee. The committee is chaired by the executive associate dean for budgetary planning and administration. Committee Members:
Faculty Policy Committee The Faculty Policy Committee makes recommendations to the faculty regarding policy and operational issues as well as determining policy issues not requiring faculty input. The committee also acts in an advisory function to the dean. The committee is made up of the dean; the associate dean for academic affairs; the associate dean for research; associate dean for graduate programs; the executive associate dean for budgetary planning and administration; director of clinics; and the elected faculty presider.
Committee Members:
Library Committee The Library Committee serves in an advisory capacity to the head of the Optometry Library. The committee considers policy issues and other major issues that may affect the level of services provided by the library to the faculty, staff, and students within the school. The head consults the committee when such issues arise and keeps the members informed about developments within the library. Examples of issues considered include serials cancellation projects; major changes in budget, staffing, or procedures; and major gifts and donations. The Library Committee is composed of three faculty members from the School of Optometry, appointed by the dean, plus the head of the library, who serves as chair. Committee Members:
Lump Sum Discretionary Staff Bonus Award Committee The committee recommends staff (nominated by faculty and staff) who have shown outstanding performance, achievements, team work, exemplary service, developed cost-saving efficiencies, or assumed additional projects or duties in the previous year. Committee Members:
Material Advisory Committee The Material Advisory Committee addresses clinic dispensary and optical laboratory issues/problems that are common to all of the clinics within the IU optometry clinic system. Having this venue where dispensary and laboratory staff can raise and resolve frame, lens, and service issues brings uniformity throughout the system. It calls upon the collective wisdom of those most likely to detect problems as they are first beginning to occur or even before they develop. It also serves as a communication tool by providing a forum to disseminate information regarding new industry products and services. Committee Members:
Optician/Technician Program Committees
Peer Review Committee The Peer Review Committee is advisory to the dean. The committee is to assess performance in teaching, research/creative activities, and service; provide feedback/constructive criticism to the faculty members; and promote faculty coherence and mutual respect. The committee will consist of at least one tenure-track/tenured O.D., a clinical faculty member, and a tenure-track/tenured faculty member with an active research program. These individuals will evaluate and write a review of each faculty member. In addition, a committee chair (fourth member) will coordinate and guide the process. The composition of the committee will be public. The written review produced by the committee will be based on the annual faculty summary report, faculty statement of effort, student teaching evaluations, (possibly patient evaluations), letters from other faculty, and past evaluations when available. The final review will be confidential, with copies to the individual faculty member and the dean. All communication with the committee will be through the dean's office. Faculty members should not communicate directly with committee members in reference to their review or any other faculty member's review. Each reviewer will be reviewed by the other reviewers and the chair. The committee will make recommendations to the dean based on the following categories:
Committee Members:
Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee The Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee evaluates teaching by evaluating the professor's syllabi, handouts, use of technology, examinations, classroom presence, and other means as it deems appropriate. It was felt by the faculty that student evaluations are only one tool to evaluate teaching and may sometimes be bias by personality or factors other than teaching effectiveness. It is expected that the committee will evaluate only a few faculty members each year with the initial emphasis being on faculty in the tenure track and applying for promotion to give another teaching evaluation for their dossiers. Committee Members:
Research Space Committee The committee will make recommendations to the dean on allocation and use of research space in the School of Optometry. The committee will also make recommendations for future research space needs. Committee Members:
Search and Screen Committee The Search and Screen Committee is appointed by the associate dean for academic affairs on an ad hoc basis as required in consultation with the Faculty Policy Committee. The committee advertises the position(s) and corresponds with potential candidates. The committee screens the candidates' dossiers and recommends candidates to the faculty for recruiting visits. The committee conducts the visits, interviews (along with other faculty members) the potential candidates, and recommends to the faculty the candidate(s) to be hired upon which the faculty vote. Committee Members:
Tenure-Track Faculty Position Searches:
Clinic Faculty Position Searches:
Technology Committee The Technology Committee serves in an advisory capacity to the director of technology. The committee is responsible for strategic planning related to the use of electronic technologies by the school as well as for reviewing policies for hardware and software support. The director of technology will consult with the committee on matters relating to major changes in budget, staffing, or procedures. The committee reviews annual faculty and staff computer equipment requests and prioritizes them for consideration by the Equipment Committee. It also prioritizes annual requests for workstation upgrades received from the faculty for consideration under the Faculty Computer Equipment Replacement fund. The Technology Committee is composed of seven faculty members appointed by the dean. Committee Members:
Tenure and Promotions Committee The Tenure and Promotions Committee completes a detailed review of the tenure and promotions dossier of each tenure-track Optometry faculty member at the end of the third year of the probationary period; periodically reports to School of Optometry Associate Dean for Academic Affairs on the progress towards tenure of each tenure-track faculty member; ensures that each prospective tenure candidate is fully apprised annually of his/her progress towards tenure; assists the associate dean for academic affairs in the creation and selection of a primary peer review committee to evaluate the candidate for tenure; and joins with all other tenured Optometry faculty members to render the school-level evaluation of the candidate for tenure. The standing Tenure and Promotions Committee consists of all full professors of the School of Optometry. In decisions regarding tenure, membership on the Standing Tenure and Promotions Committee will be extended to include all tenured faculty. The committee selects its own chairperson from among its ranks. [IU School of Optometry Promotion and Tenure Guide]Committee Members:
For consideration of tenure, the following are also members:
Wall of Recognition Committee The Wall of Recognition Committee annually determines whether any additions are to be made to the wall and ensures that the appropriate plaques are added and family members of new inductees are notified. Committee Members:
Website Committee The Website Committee oversees the School of Optometry Website, including such activities as designing it to be user friendly; encouraging faculty and staff to add material to the site; encouraging faculty to use it for course material; and making recommendations concerning the other uses and additions to keep the IU School of Optometry a leader in the profession in this field. The committee should work with the Continuing Education Committee with respect to providing continuing education via this vehicle. Committee Members:
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