FCIS Dean’s Advisory Council at Fairhaven College

Fairhaven College created the Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) via a motion in spring quarter 2022. The DAC was approved for a one-year trial during AY 2022-23.  In spring 2023, the college voted to make the DAC an ongoing committee only during Caskey’s Russell deanship, which ends AY 25-26.  After Caskey’s Russell’s deanship, the College will revisit the question of whether or not to keep the DAC under future deans.

The Dean’s Advisory Council is expected to meet at least twice per quarter.

Required Attendees:

  • FCIS Dean
  • FCIS faculty chair
  • American Cultural Studies Program Director
  • Director of the Center for Law, Diversity, and Justice
  • FCIS Operations Manager and Enrollment Manager

Optional Attendees:

  • Major campus and college committee representatives
  • Minor advisors
  • Program coordinators

 

The committee representatives are:

The Personnel Committee Chair

College’s Faculty Senator

College’s University Planning & Resources Council (UPRC) representative,

FCIS Academic Coordinating Council (ACC) Representative

 

The minor advisors are:

ATMS minor advisor

Human Rights minor advisor

Education and Social Justice advisor

 

The program coordinators:

Adventure Learning Grant coordinator

World Issues Coordinator

Outback Farm Representative

 

The committee representatives, minor advisors, and program coordinators may attend any DAC meeting and are required to attend whenever requested by the DAC chair or the Dean of the College.  Representatives on major campus committees (UPRC, ACC, and Faculty Senate) should expect to participate in DAC at least once per year.  Representatives of College minors and programs may request a discussion of their program concerns two weeks prior to any meeting.

Meetings of the Dean’s Advisory Council are open to any faculty or staff member who wishes to attend.

Faculty members who wish to raise an issue of strategic planning, college coordination, budgeting, or new programming are requested to bring their ideas to the DAC to coordinate their activities with other college programs and plan for all college discussion of new initiatives

The Purpose of the DAC is

  • to monitor the overall cohesion of Fairhaven College, including the development of College-wide strategic planning;
  • to receive regular reports from the Dean and provide questions and feedback on the Dean’s activities
  • to foster cooperation across College majors and minors;
  • to periodically examine and, where possible, harmonize the organizational structure of the College’s various programs;
  • to coordinate periodic reviews of the College’s various degree and nondegree programs;
  • to establish ad-hoc budget task force when needed to pursue new funding opportunities; 
  • and to report to All College Meetings on strategic planning, budgeting, and, periodically, on the health of the College’s various subunits.

The Dean will ask for agenda items a week in advance and take informal notes during the DAC to present to the College during All College Meetings.

 

DAC schedule for AY 23-24

All meetings are Mondays from 9-10:30am.  Location TBD.

Fall

October 2

October 30

November 27

 

Winter

January 22

February 12

March 11

 

Spring

April 15

May 6

June 3