Faculty Senate Charge to Research Council, 2001-2002
The Research Council shall engage the Administration
including but not limited to the President, the Vice President for Research and
Information Technology, the Associate Vice-President for Research, and the
Provost regarding all aspects of the University's research mission, including
but not limited to:
- Recommendations for uniform
procedures governing establishment, funding, review, and abolition of
multidisciplinary centers
- Allocation of research
incentive funds, startup funds for new faculty, faculty accounts,
incentives to work with centers
- Follow-up on faculty leave
policy
- Leave time accumulations and
charges to contracts and grants; contract and grant management
- University supercomputer initiatives,
the Joint Institute for Computational Science, and DII’s support
infrastructure
- Impact of restructuring on
the Research Council
- Public exposure of research
and outreach
- Benchmarks and measurement of
University progress
- Stipends and benefits for graduate
students
- Overview of IRB/Human
Subjects, Federal requirements, and compliance at UT
- Faculty titles
The Research Council shall, in addition, explore the possibility of
collaboration with comparable bodies at Memphis and Tullahoma.
The Research Council shall, further, remain engaged in:
- The functioning of the
faculty workstation refresh program
- Its historically close
collaboration and supportive activities with the Office of Research.
Comments to: birdwell@hickory.engr.utk.edu
Last updated August 14, 2001.