UCLA Linguistics Department
2007-2008
Current committee assignments
Description of committees
Archive: old committee
assignments
Admissions: Buring (Chair), Zuraw, Sundara, Hallman, Keenan
Awards nomination committee: DGS and Chair (with input from the faculty)
Colloquium: Kristine Yu, Vincent Homer; Schutze (Faculty advisor)
Course scheduling: Jun
Desk assignment: Nick LaCasse, Faculty advisor: Chair
Fellowships (RMPs, DYFs): Curtiss (Chair), Hallman
First Year Advising: Keating
GLC (Graduate Linguistics Circle) Officers:
President - Chad Vicenik
Vice President - Victoria Thatte
Secretary - Molly Shilman
Language Exams: Sportiche, Kracht
Merit Review Committee: Keenan (Chair), Hayes, Kracht
Mini-courses: Sportiche (Chair), Schutze
Newsletter: Stabler, Munro
Open House Committee - Chad Vicenik; Heather Burnett; Natasha Abner; Isabelle Charnavel, Anne Shisko
Prospective students/student recruitment committee: Koopman, Hyams
Special events: Munro and Sportiche
Student Research support: Munro (Chair), Keating
Reading Room (faculty Chair position vacant); student member Victoria Thatte
Teaching Evaluation Committee: Schuh (Chair), Kracht, Schlenker, Sundara. Student members: Tatiana Libman; Roy Becker; Denis Paperno; Nathan Porter
Undergrad Advising: Jun, Munro, Schuh (Chair) and Stabler
Visiting scholars: Schutze and Sundara
WCCFL Committee - Robyn Orfitelli (Chair); Ben Jones; Anne Shisko; Natasha Abner; Jason Bishop; Byron Ahn; Craig Sailor; Chad Vicenik. FAculty advisers: Hayes,Koopman, Schuetze
Web site and Publications: Hayes and Stabler
Duties: Solicit requests for speakers. Contact potential speakers and arrange for their visits. Keep track of invited speaker budget. Circulate quarter lists of Colloquium speakers, updates on Colloquia during the quarter, and announcements for individual Colloquia. Maintain contact with invited speakers in order to solicit abstracts of talks for circulation at the appropriate time and apprise them of time, place, etc. for their talks. Make arrangements for social activities associated with the Colloquium, if appropriate, e.g. lunch or a social hour afterward. [ See Colloquium Guidelines for Student and Faculty Hosts]
(no description of duties on file)
The Desk Assignment Committee assigns desk space to students and visitors.
Duties: rank order applications for DYFs and Mentorships and related instruments
Duties: Help plan and conduct orientation session, and meet individually with all new graduate students, during Fall Quarter prior to registration. In consultation with relevant faculty, determine deficiencies which might prevent students from taking required courses, and whether courses taken elsewhere can satisfy any UCLA requirements. Advise students on choice of elective courses. Meet with students and sign study lists each quarter. Advise students on meeting requirements in practical phonetics, foreign language, and eligibility to TA. In cooperation with Colloquium Committee, arrange Ling. 411 (continuing orientation) sessions during Fall and Winter quarters.
Duties: Inform students of time and place of quarterly language reading examinations. Designate faculty members who will set the reading passages and correct the exams. Supervise the exams themselves. Verify satisfaction of the language requirement by means other than the departmental exams.
For further information on language examinations, go to the page Language Requirement for the Linguistics Graduate Program.
Duties: Evaluate records of candidates for personnel actions that require only Dean's review (these include most merit increase in rank and certain accelerations). Prepare research reports for Chair and make recommendations to full faculty on advancements, requesting full faculty discussion where necessary.
(no description of duties on file)
Get faculty to send in news of note to the Front Office Coordinator so we can put the department newsletter together.
Recruitment
Duties: (faculty) organize and schedule meetings with relevant faculty (coordinated with SAO); (students) logistics: housing, airport shuttle
(no description of duties on file)
Determine RR policy (monitoring, keys, stacks, check-out). Order books and periodicals. Maintain records of orders and acquisitions. Maintain and update card catalog. Make recommendations on linguistics acquisitions to University Research Library.
(No description on file.)
(travel, Human Subjects)
Duties: Prepare summary teaching evaluations and present them for personnel discussion at faculty and Merit Review Committee meetings. Maintain computerized course-and-instructor evaluation records. Nominate and document accomplishments of candidates for Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished TA Awards.
Temporary Faculty: organized on an ad hoc basis for each available position
Serves as search committee for temporary faculty.
Duties: All aspects of undergraduate advising, including the following: advise students on courses to take and clarify requirements; complete petitions for change of major, course substitutions, waivers of course requirements, etc.; complete degree check forms for students. Committee Chair does quarterly degree checks for the registrar, informs the registrar as to students who quality for Departmental Honors, and generally coordinates advising.
Duties: the Visiting Scholar Committee answers requests to be a visitor (info sheet from the Front Office Coordinator; circulate request with relevant faculty, answer). Note: there is a web page set up by the Committee to assist applicants.
Maintain and improve the departmental Web site/research archives/working papers. Some institutional memory for the committee.
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