Faculty Governance Composition Council

Charge

The charge of the Composition Council is specified by the legislation which governs the Writing Program and was adopted by the faculty in May 1983. That charge reads as follows:

The Composition Council will determine policy for the Writing Program and will coordinate its activities. The Council will have six members who will be appointed by the Committee on Instruction. One of these members will come from the Department of English, one from the College of Engineering, and one from the Library. The other three will be chosen from three different divisions in order to gain the widest University participation. In addition to these six members, the Council will have as a permanent voting member the Director of the Writing Program, who will be appointed by the Vice President for Academic Affairs in consultation with the Academic Deans, the Department of English, and the Composition Council. The Director will be attached to the Vice President's office. The Council of Deans will appoint a non-voting consultant to the Composition Council. The Composition Council will be a sub-committee of the Committee on Instruction. The Council will elect its own chairperson.

Pending Business

• "COI charges the Composition Council, or a separate and overlapping sub-committee convened by the Council, with determining if it is possible and desirable to engage in a formal process by which improvement in student writing at Bucknell can be assessed." (Letter from COI chair Ann Tlusty to Tom Solomon, Composition Council, April 23, 2003.)
• "COI charges the [Composition] Council to form a sub-committee made up of faculty for the purpose of assessing faculty opinion of current Writing Program procedures, administration, and criteria, and if deemed necessary, recommending procedural changes to the Program." (Letter from COI chair Ann Tlusty to Tom Solomon, Composition Council, February 10, 2004.)

Committee Membership