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Faculty Senator Committee Assignments in the University Faculty Senate

Company: PSU Faculty Senate

Major(s):
Primary: CMPSC
Secondary: IE

Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO

Intellectual Property: NO

The University Faculty Senate (UFS) has fifteen committees that include members who are faculty senators, administrative senators, student senators, and ex-officio members. The task of the current project is focused on the committee assignments for the faculty senators. Each committee has a minimum faculty senator requirement. Some committees also have requirements for faculty senator representation from particular colleges or campuses. Two committees have a requirement that some faculty senators are non-tenure line faculty. Each faculty senator is asked for their first, second, and third preference for committee assignments. The objective of this project is to place the faculty senators into the fifteen committees so that all committee requirements and senator preferences are best satisfied. The deliverable for this project is a software code or app that can be used by the UFS staff to make committee assignments each year using a spreadsheet of the faculty senator preferences and locations. Ideally, this code would have some flexibility to accommodate changes in committee requirements in future years, such as a change in the minimum number of faculty senators on the committee.