Mission/Urban/Social Justice Team
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Team Membership
- Twelve-member team: one alum, two students, three administrative representatives (at least two of which should be representative of two of the following: the University Ministry, the Office of Mission and Identity, and the Institute for Leadership Development), one staff representative, one Law School representative, one Dental School representative, one faculty member selected by the MFA from among its members, and two faculty members elected by the McNichols faculty
- Reports to the Vice President for Academic Affairs and through that office to other bodies as appropriate
Members
3 faculty representatives
Gail Presbey, Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2012)
Amy Dereczyk, Physician Assistant, College of Health Professions (term expires 3/2012) (MFA)
TBD (term expires 3/2013)
3 administrative representatives
John Staudenmaier, SJ, Office of Mission and Identity (term expires 8/2012)
Leo Hanifin, Dean, College of Engineering & Science (term expires 8/2012)
Sr. Beth Ann Finster, SSJ, Assistant Director of University Ministry (term expires 8/2013)
1 staff representative
Maria Campbell, Chairperson, Human Resource Advisor, Human Resources (term expires 8/2013)
1 Dental School representative
Megan Jennings, Director of Student Affairs (term expires 2012)
1 Law School representative
Michael Bryce (term expires 2012)
1 alum representative
Theresa Skora, Secretary (term expires 2012)
2 student representatives
Maria Ibarra (term expires 2012)
Yanet Plasencia (term expires 2013)
Invited Participants
The chairperson of a Team and/or the administrator to whom the Team reports may add guests in an “Invited Participant” category. Individuals are invited because of their expertise, potential contributions, or history with the team but have no voting rights. The term of service for invited participants is not to exceed two years. Invited participants are not eligible for reappointment in this category. A team may not exceed three invited participants at any given time.
Joanne Isbey, English, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 8/2012)
Tim Hipskind, S.J., Director - Service Learning, Institute for Leadership and Service (term expires 8/2013)
2011-12 Charge
- Create a process and implement the process to invite colleges/schools/units to present information about their Outreach activities for inclusion in the Scholarly Celebration.
- Identify strategies to enhance university community awareness about AJCU (Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities) and Mercy Higher Education concerning their mission, activities and resources.
Ongoing Charge
- Manage the call for, review of submitted nominees and selection of the awardees for the Mission Leadership Award, the Vivere ex Missione Award, and the Agere ex Missione Award.
- Develop means to foster the Jesuit and Mercy traditions through ongoing education and promotion of mission fulfillment.
- Review websites, contact colleagues, and review publication of other similarly situated universities to seek ideas to better promote the development of mission at UDM.
- Keep the university community informed of committee activities by providing summary minutes of meetings and reports to (sharedgovernance(at)udmercy.edu). Information will be posted to the shared governance website (udmercy.edu/governance). The secretary of the committee is responsible for these postings and for informing Campus Connections of new postings. If there is no secretary identified for the committee, a member should be selected who is responsible for this task.