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Council on Academic Personnel (CAP)

Council Chair: Edward Coulson
Council Analyst: Casey Lough

Membership

  1. The Council on Academic Personnel shall consist of fourteen elected Division members serving three-year terms.
    1. One member shall be elected from each of the following: The Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the School of Biological Sciences, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, the Paul Merage School of Business, the School of Humanities, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the School of Law, the School of Physical Sciences, the School of Social Ecology, and the School of Social Sciences. Two members shall be elected from the School of Medicine, representing respectively the clinical departments and the basic science departments; to maintain continuity, their terms shall not expire in the same year. To allow all ladder-rank faculty the opportunity to serve on CAP, two at-large members shall be elected from the following schools: Education, Nursing, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Population and Public Health. The two at-large members cannot be from the same school.
    2. The only exceptions to CAP members being elected for three-year terms are when COC must appoint a member to complete the term of a CAP member who ceases their participation as described in Bylaw 181 or when the length of the term needs to be shortened to achieve or maintain staggering of new members within clusters. The clusters are defined as follows: Arts, Humanities; Biological Sciences, Medicine (Basic Science), Medicine (Clinical), College of Health Sciences (at large); Engineering, ICS, Physical Sciences; Business, Education (at large), Law; Social Ecology, Social Sciences.
  2. Candidates for each of the fourteen seats shall be elected by the members of the Division as a whole to represent the Division at large.
  3. No Dean, Department Chair, or Equity Advisor shall serve on the Council. In addition, no Associate Dean or other administrative officer whose duties include or could include (in an interim or surrogate role) involvement in the academic personnel review process shall serve on the Council.

Duties

  1. Confer with and make recommendations to the Chancellor and Provost on appointments, advancement, and other personnel matters.
  2. Maintain liaison with the University Committee on Academic Personnel.

Subcommittees: Reserve Council on Academic Personnel (RCAP)

Policies and Procedures: Irvine Bylaw 48. Academic Personnel, Council on