Division of Social Sciences Executive Committee

Committee Charter Rosters

Meeting Schedule – 2025-2026

DateTimeLocation
10/10/20258:30amTeams Meeting
10/17/20258:30amTeams Meeting
10/31/20258:30amTeams Meeting
11/14/20258:30amTeams Meeting
11/28/20258:30amTeams Meeting
12/12/20258:30amTeams Meeting
SPRING 2026
01/16/20268:30amTeams Meeting
01/30/20268:30amTeams Meeting
02/13/20268:30amTeams Meeting
02/20/20268:30amTeams Meeting
02/27/20268:30amTeams Meeting
03/13/20268:30amTeams Meeting
03/20/20268:30amTeams Meeting
04/03/20268:30amTeams Meeting
04/17/20268:30amTeams Meeting
05/01/20268:30amTeams Meeting

Agendas

2025-26 Agendas
2024-25 Agendas

Agendas are available upon request.

Notes from Committee

Case managers are reminded to submit materials to the appropriate dean about two weeks before the committee is scheduled to meet. This will provide the committee with adequate time to examine the case and to secure alternate members if necessary.

The committee abides by the provisions of Sec. 19.85 Wis. Stats., the Wisconsin State Open Meeting law, and Chapter 3.14(3), UWM Policies and Procedures. Accordingly, anyone whose case comes before the committee who wishes to have an open meeting should notify the Division of Social Sciences Executive Committee Office at 229-5998.

Please note the following in the criteria: 

  1. an observer, who may not contribute to the deliberations, from the departmental executive committee is encouraged at the closed meetings on tenure or promotion cases;
  2. the evidence of teaching section (#6) requires the submission of materials on student and peer evaluation of teaching and of information on the average grade given in each course being evaluated;
  3. the procedure for handling letters of evaluation by outside reviewers, and the requirement for a curriculum vitae or its equivalent for each reviewer (on pages 5 and 10 of the document); and
  4. departments are required to provide information regarding co-authorship and the time period in which each candidate’s scholarly works were completed, as indicated in Sections 3 and 5.

Please note that these criteria apply equally to external hires as well as internal candidates.

Also, note the procedure to be followed by departments or schools initiating reconsideration on behalf of a colleague receiving a negative vote on the motion to promote and/or tenure. The department/ school has the right to request reconsideration of the decision within ten (10) working days of the date of the divisional committee’s vote. The candidate’s chair must call for an official meeting of the unit’s executive committee to determine if there is adequate support for reconsideration. The vote in support of reconsideration is to be conveyed to the Division of Social Sciences Executive Committee Office as part of the statement requesting an additional hearing. Finally, the committee will attempt to augment the Subcommittee of Full Professors of the Executive Committee to five members through the use of alternates whenever possible.

The committee chair is available to meet with case managers to review procedures before the start of a case and to review files prior to transmittal to the appropriate dean. The 2025-26 Chair is – Natasha Borges-Sugiyama.

Additional Information

Contact

Natasha Borges Sugiyama
Committee Chair
sugiyamn@uwm.edu

Jake Azinger
Governance Specialist
tazinger@uwm.edu