David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
What is the Faculty Executive Committee?
The Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) is the elected representative body of the Faculty of the School of Medicine. It functions as an arm of the Academic Senate and has specific responsibilities for the design and conduct of the academic program of courses and curriculum within the Medical School. In addition the Faculty, through the FEC, authorizes the promotion and graduation of students in the School and serves to advise the administration and the UCLA Academic Senate on questions of faculty welfare, academic priorities, and planning and budget allocations within the School of Medicine. Although the FEC formally represents the Senate Faculty, we consider it our responsibility to represent the interests of all faculty members of the School, without regard for their eligibility for Senate membership. Meetings are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5:30 to 7:30 and are open to all members of the faculty.
Members of the FEC are elected from and by the (nearly 2,000) Academic Senate members of the faculty of the School of Medicine and are expected to represent the interests of their faculty constituents. The membership includes:
- Four representatives from the Pre-clinical Sciences (3 year terms)
- Three representatives from the Medical Sciences (3 year terms)
- Three representatives from the Surgical Clinical Sciences (3 year terms),
- One representative from the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School
- One additional faculty member who serves for two years as Chair of the FEC
- One additional faculty member who serves for two years as Vice-chair
- One faculty member with a full-time appointment in the Clinical Compensated series
- One graduate student from a program within the School of Medicine.
- One medical student from each class within the School of Medicine.
- The Dean (or a representative Associate Dean) of the School of Medicine