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The Policy and Planning Committee
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Introduction

In 2008-09 and 2009-10 the Faculty of Arts and Sciences undertook a review of faculty governance, spearheaded by the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (ECFAS) and carried out by the Academic Review Committee (ARC). In Spring 2010 the recommendations of the ARC review were shared with the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Fruitful consultations between ECFAS, ARC, Department Chairs, Administration, and Faculty informed the entire process. A subsequent vote of the entire Faculty was held to amend the Stated Rules of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and thereby implement one of the recommendations of the review: to replace the form of faculty governance exercised by ECFAS with a new proposed system, to be structured by the formation of a new faculty committee to be called the Policy and Planning Committee. The proposed amendment to the Stated Rules passed in April 2010. (The Stated Rules can be found at the link on the left.)

Details about PPC membership and September 2010 election

In this inaugural year the Policy and Planning Committee (PPC) membership will be established in September. ECFAS proposed and it was agreed that in this first year, the election from the nominated slate will yield three members (one from each division) rather than six; for continuity and in recognition of the important work by ECFAS, three inaugural members of the PPC (one from each division) will be chosen by and from the 2009-10 ECFAS membership. The three PPC members chosen by and from the Chairs will be announced following an election to take place the first week of the semester. Candidates for election to the PPC from the nominated slate are listed below. Details about voting, as well as the names of the three PPC members chosen by and from the 2009-10 ECFAS membership, will be announced in a forthcoming letter from Nicholas B. Dirks, Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty.

CANDIDATES in the SOCIAL SCIENCES:

Peter_Bearman Peter Bearman has been at Columbia since 1999.  He was the founding director of ISERP and served in that capacity until 2008. He was chair of the Sociology department and for one year served as chair of the Statistics department.  He served on ARC for 4 years and was ARC chair for one year.  Bearman serves on the executive committee of the Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (which he cofounded), the European Institute, and is an external adviser to the Department of Epidemiology. He co-directs the Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate training Program, The Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Program, and the Oral History MA program. He is currently the director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences.  He has supervised 16 PhD students in sociology and is the recipient of the Graduate Student Teaching Award in the department of Sociology. He works on the autism epidemic, large scale collective violence, and in problems in analytical sociology.
Pamela Smith, Professor, History Department, came to Columbia in 2005 and teaches early modern European history and history of science. She is the author of books on alchemy, artisans, and the making of knowledge, most recently, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004) and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800 (with Benjamin Schmidt, 2008). Her present research reconstructs the vernacular knowledge of early modern European metalworkers. At Columbia, she served on ECFAS from 2006-9, as Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department, and as co-Chair of the University Seminar for History and Philosophy of Science, among other university activities. At present, she serves on the Space Planning Committee for Manhattanville and its subcommittee on classroom use and scheduling.
CANDIDATES in the HUMANITIES:
Barolini photo Teodolinda Barolini is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Medieval Academy of America. She was fifteenth President of the Dante Society of America (1997-2003). After receiving her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1978, Barolini taught at the University of California at Berkeley and New York University before returning to Columbia University in 1992 as Chair of the Department of Italian, serving in that capacity until 2004. She has served on numerous Committees, including ECFAS, which she chaired in 1995-1996, TRAC, and ARC, which she chaired in 2000-2001 and 2009-2010. She is the author of Dante?s Poets (Princeton, 1984; Italian trans., Bollati Boringhieri, 1993; winner of the Marraro Prize of the Modern Language Association and the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy), The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante (Princeton, 1992; Italian trans., Feltrinelli, 2003), and Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (Fordham, 2006; Italian trans. Bompiani, forthcoming; winner of the Premio Flaiano, 2007). The first volume of her commentary to Dante?s lyrics, Rime giovanili e della "Vita Nuova", was published by Rizzoli in 2009.
fac_griffin Farah Griffin is a professor in the English Department. She has a B.A. from Harvard (1985) and a Ph.D. from Yale (1992). Professor Griffin's major fields of interest are American and African American literature, music, history and politics. The recipient of numerous honors and awards for her teaching and scholarship, in 2006-2007 Professor Griffin was a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is the author of Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can?t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001) and Clawing At the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (Thomas Dunne, 2008). She is also the editor of Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus (Knopf, 1999) co-editor, with Cheryl Fish, of Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing (Beacon, 1998) and co-editor with Brent Edwards and Robert O'Meally of Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University Press, 2004).

CANDIDATES in the NATURAL SCIENCES:

Ann McDermott Ann McDermott is the Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry at Columbia University.  She has a B.S. in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from U. C. Berkeley, where she was involved in studies of the photosynthetic reaction centers of green plants. She carried out postgraduate work at MIT with Dr. Robert Griffin studying Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and at the Tropical Medicine Institute of the ULB in Brussels, Belgium, studying drug development, and she has been on the faculty of Columbia University since 1991. Her research at Columbia University concerns understanding the remarkable ability of naturally occurring proteins to catalyze chemical reactions; she studies the structure and inherent flexibility of these proteins using magnetic resonance methods. On the basis of her research, she is the recipient of the Pure Award in Chemistry (1996) and the Eastern Analytic Symposium Award for Achievement in Magnetic Resonance (2005), and she is an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. She recently served as Associate Vice President for Academic Advising and Science Initiatives in the Arts and Sciences. She teaches in both the graduate biophysics program and the undergraduate chemistry program.
jvangork Jacqueline van Gorkom is an astronomer and has been a member of the faculty at Columbia since 1988. Her main scientific interest is in the structure and evolution of galaxies and more specifically in the role of gas in galaxy evolution. She has over the years looked at Columbia's governance from different angles, as chair of the department of astronomy (7 years), as chair of the committee on science instruction (5 years) and as member and chair of the academic review committee (4 years) and of course as faculty member for 23 years. She also served for some time on the COI of the School of General Studies and took part in some activities of the Diversity Initiative at Columbia. She would be excited to be part of what could possibly be a turning point in faculty governance.