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The Core Steering Committee shall be responsible for academic policy within the Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. This includes planning and coordinating course offerings, reviewing proposals for new or revised Core courses before they are recommended to the Faculty Executive Committee, and recommending to the Faculty Executive Committee and eventually the Faculty as a whole any proposed changes in the Program. The Core Steering Committee is composed of faculty members representing the four divisions of the College (Arts, Letters, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences), the Director of the Humanities Institute, the Core Director, and the previous Core Director. Certain circumstances may make appropriate the appointment of additional members of the faculty to the Core Steering Committee. Such additional appointments are made by request of the Core Director to the Dean of Faculty, after consultation with the members of the standing Steering Committee, and require the approval of the Dean of Faculty and the Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee.
The Core Director is elected by the voting members of the faculty to serve a three-year term beginning in January. Each year during the three-year term, the Director shall receive a course release; the incoming Core Director shall also receive a course release in the fall semester prior to officially taking over the Directorship.
Faculty eligible to be elected to this position will be drawn from tenured faculty who have taught in Core I at least once in the past 10 years or have taught in either Core II or III during the past six years. Faculty may request that their names be removed from the list of eligibility. If a faculty member is elected to serve as the Core Director, her/his name will be removed from the APT and FEC ballots if eligible to serve. Current service on APT or FEC does not disqualify eligible faculty members from serving as Core Director; if an APT or FEC member is elected as Core Director, service on APT or FEC will be suspended during the tenure of the Core Directorship (starting in the fall semester after the election in January) and will resume in the fall of the next academic year following the conclusion of service as the Core Director. Faculty who complete three years of service as Core Director are released from eligibility for service on FEC and APT for three years; a current member of FEC or APT who is elected to serve as Core Director has the option of being released from eligibility for service on FEC, APT, and from the Core Directorship for six years after completing service on FEC or APT and service as Core Director.
The Core Director is responsible for coordinating course offerings; articulating and planning the Core’s intellectual program; conducting periodic seminars to review and discuss the program; overseeing the content and staffing of Core I, II and III; representing the Core Program to alumnae, trustees, and prospective students and their families; and managing the Core Program budget. The Dean of the Faculty works with the Director in identifying faculty to teach in the Core Program. All departments will make an equitable contribution to the Core Program based on long-term planning and yearly updates.
The Elizabeth Hubert Malott Endowed Chair for the Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities will be held by the Core Director, who need not be a full professor. The term for this Endowed Chair is for the duration of the service as the Core Director.
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