Steering Committee

The steering committee meets each month, prior to the department meeting, to assess policies, goals, and performance, and to propose policies and actions for departmental consideration at the department meetings.  Members include the chair, assistant chair, composition coordinator, graduate coordinator, professional writing coordinator, literature coordinator, and one at-large member from each rank (professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and lecturer, rotated each year), as appointed by the chair.  All members of the department are welcome to attend any steering committee meeting.

 The principal purposes of the steering committee are to

• Act as an advisory body to the chair and act as liaisons to the department.

• Propose policies, advise on matters for larger departmental deliberation, and review proposals from departmental committees prior to sending them to the department as a whole for action.  In its deliberations, the steering committee may suggest revisions of committee proposals and return them to the committee chair.

• Form the agenda for the monthly department meeting.

• Set yearly goals for the department.

• Advise the chair on hiring of lecturers.