Council of Chairs

Welcome to the official website of the Council of Chairs at California State University, Northridge.

CSUN Grade Inflation Study

Handbook of the CSUN Council of Chairs

 

Role of the Council

The Council of Chairs is an important constituency for academic planning and implementation at the university. It serves as an advisory group to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and helps to shape academic planning and implementation at the university. The Council also serves as a forum for information sharing and input on innovations and change that relate to the quality of academic programs and initiatives at the university, as well as a platform for discussion of issues that fall within the responsibilities of department chairs. The Council is a member of the University Planning and Budget Group chaired by the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the University Calendar Planning Committee chaired by the Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs, and participates in official functions of the university to which it is invited.

Membership

The Council of Chairs consists of all of the university's department chairs. An Executive Committee made up of one representative from each College, Oviat Library and Tseng College serves the Council. Each College elects a representative in staggered, alternating years to serve on the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee elects the Chair of the Council of Chairs from the committee.

Council of Chairs 2009-2010 Executive Committee Members

Executive Member	Department / College *	Ext.	Email Address
Ben Attias	Communication Studies/AMC	2853	battias@csun.edu
Doris Helfer	Library	2562	doris.helfer@csun.edu
Hamid Johari	ME/Engineering	2187	hamid.johari@csun.edu
David Krestschmer	Elementary Education/Education	2621	david.krestschmer@csun.edu
Henrik Minassians	Public Sector/Tseng	4618	henrik.minassians@csun.edu
Taeboem Oh	Chemestry/Science & Math	3381	taeboem.oh@csun.edu
Steve Sinclair	Communicative Disorders/HHD	2852	steve.sinclair@csun.edu
Tom Spencer-Walters	PAS/S&BS	3311	tom.spencer.walters@csun.edu
Sandra Stanley	Asian American Studies/Humanities	4966	sandra.stanley@csun.edu
Melanie Willimas Chair, Council of Chairs	Buisness Law/COBAE	2905	melanie.williams@csun.edu

Meeting Dates

The Executive Committee normally meets on the third Monday of each month from 10:00am-12:00noon each semester. Department chairs and the university community at large are invited to attend these meetings.

2009 - 2010 Meeting Dates

Meetings for the 2009-2010 Academic Year will be held in Juniper Hall 3107. Meeting within agenda will be cancelled.

Fall 2009		Spring 2010
September 21	JH3107	January 25	JH3107
October 19	JH2230-32	February 15	JH3107
November 16	JH3107	March 15	JH3107
December 21	JH3107	April 19	JH3107
		May 17	JH3107

 

Minutes of the Council

* Colleges

All the department chairs are members of this council. However, each College elects a representative to serve in its executive committee.

Abbreviation	Expansion
AMC	College of Arts, Media and Communications
COBAE	College of Business & Economics
EED	Education Elementary Ed
EDU	College of Education
E&CS	College of Engineering and Computer Science
HHD	Health and Human Development
HUM	College of Humanities
ME	Mechanical Engineering
PAS	Pan African Studies
SC&M	College of Science and Mathematics
S&BS	College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
LIB	Oviatt Library

Additional Resources

• American Council on Education for Department Chair resources
• The California State University Department Chair Survey Report

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Last updated: September 25, 2009