UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Hugh J. Silverman

 


I. University Senate & Arts and Sciences Senate

A. ELECTED SENATOR:            

     1. University Senate

      Senator-at-Large, elected: 1982-85; 85-88; 88-91;91-93;1993-96; 96-99; 99-02,02-05

    2.  Arts & Sciences Senate

          President of the Arts and Sciences Senate, elected: 1998-2000

          Past President of the Arts and Science Senate, 2000-2002

          Senator-at-Large, elected: 1982-85; 85-88; 88-91; 91-93; 1993-96; 96-99; 99-02, 02-05

         B.  SENATE COMMITTEES             

        1. UNIVERSITY SENATE

    Graduate Council, elected 1979-81; 1984-85; 1991-93

          Sub-Committee on Graduate Program Reviews, Chair 1984-85

          Sub-Committee on Graduate Council Fellowships 1984-85

          Sub-Committee on Humanities & Fine Arts Grad. Programs,

    Chair 1984-85

    Research Committee, elected: 1990-93

    Sub-Committee on Research Institutes, spr. 90

         Committee on Resource Allocation and Budget [CRAB],

    elected: 1991-92; 1994-96; Chair, 1994-95

         Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation [CAPRA],

    elected: 1996-99, 1999-02, 2002-05

    CAPRA Representative on Provost's Academic Reviews Committee, 2001-05

    CAPRA Sub-Committee on Academic Reviews, chair/co-chair, 2001-05

    University Senate Executive Committee

    [as President and Past President of the Arts and Sciences Senate,] 1998-02

              2. ARTS AND SCIENCES SENATE

     Executive Committee,

Chair, 1998-00

     Executive Committee Member, 1998-02

     Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Rights, Responsibilities, and Retirements,

Chair, 1999- 03

 

II. ADMINISTRATIVE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES:

1. PRESIDENT’S COMMITTEES

  • President's Award for Excellence in Teaching Committee [Graduate Students] 1977-78
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching Committee [Faculty] 1983-84
  • President’s Advisory Committee on the Budget spring-summer 1995

2. PROVOST’S COMMITTEES

  • Sub-Committee on Study Abroad and the Undergraduate Curriculum, Chair 1984-85
  • Sub-Committee on Foreign Student Affairs 1983-86
  • Provost’s International Programs Advisory Council, Chair (1983-84) 1982-86
  • Western Europe Area Studies Group, Co-coordinator 1985-86
  • Provost's Ad Hoc Standards Committee: Review of the Art Department 1991-92
  • Provost's Ad Hoc Standards Committee: Review of the English Department 1992-93
  • Provost’s Council on Institutes and Centers Ad Hoc Committee: Review of the Humanities Institute 1994-95

3. GRADUATE DEAN’S COMMITTEES

  • Graduate School Grants-in-Aid Committee 1974-80
  • Graduate Council Fellowships Committee 1975-80
  • Graduate School/ NEH Summer Stipend Committee 1980-81
  • Self-Study of Graduate Education at Stony Brook Committee 1982-83

4. DEAN’S COMMITTEES

  • Dean's Search Committee for Humanities Professorship 1985-86
  • Dean's Committee on Humanities Institute 1985-86
  • Dean’s Committee on the Future of the Humanities & Fine Arts Division spr. 92
  • Undergraduate Colloquium on Faculty Research Committee 1993-95
  • Dean’s /Humanities Institute Committee to Select Santiago (SPAIN) School for Theory in the Humanities and Cornell School for Theory and Criticism 1996-2000

PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT:

  • Grants Committee 1975-76
  • Interface Committee (Chair 1977-79), 1974-75; 1977-79
  • History of Philosophy Committee, 1978-80
  • Personnel Committee (Chair, 1980-81)
  • Undergraduate Committee 1974-75; S81; 1983-84
  • Department Colloquium (Director, 1975-79; 1981-84)
  • Research Directions & Resources Committee (Chair, 1984-85)
  • Humanities Institute Development Committee (Chair, 1984-85)
  • University Library Committee 1985-86
  • Colloquium Committee 1985-87
  • Departmental Programs Committee 1991-92
  • Doctoral Program Committee 1975-77; 1978-79; S84; 1986-87; 2001-02
  • Dept Chair Nominations Committee, 1987 (Coordinator), 2003
  • International Programs Committee 1984-89
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor Committee 1988-91; 96-97; 99-00 (Coordinator 1989-90)
  • Placement Committee 1990-92,  (Committee Chair and Placement Director, 2002-04)
  • Ad hoc Committee on Cross-Departmental Appointments, Spring 2002 <1>
  • Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Philosophy Society (1995-2000)
  • Faculty Advisor, Echoes (Journal of the Undergraduate Philosophy Society) since 1995
  • Lajla Lund Graduate Student Essay Prize Committee (Chair, 1997)
  • Research Track in Philosophy and Literature (Principal Director, 1997-2000)
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COMPARATIVE STUDIES DEPARTMENT

(previously DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)

  • Comparative Literature/Comp. Studies in Literature Undergraduate Program Faculty (since 1974)
  • Comparative Literature Graduate Program Faculty (since 1977)
  • Cultural Studies Program Faculty (since 1996)
  • Comparative Literature Graduate Studies Committee, 1985-88; 1990-93
  • Comparative Literature Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1975-76; 1980-81; 1997-00
  • Comparative Literature By-Laws Committee, 1980-81
  • Comparative Literature Graduate Admissions Committee, 1983-84
  • Comparative Literature Senior Professor Search Committee, 1984-85
  • Comparative Studies Faculty Search Committee, 1988-89
  • Comparative Literature Colloquium Committee, Director, 1987-90
 

ART AND PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

  • Program Joint Coordinator [for Philosophy] - 2002, 2003-present
  • Planning Committee, Principal Coordinator - 1996-99
  • Program Faculty Committee (since 1999)

 

OTHER UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

      • Committee on the Interdisciplinary Major in the Humanities 1975-81
      • Federated Learning Communities , Faculty Member [Topic: "Cities Utopias and Environments: Designs for Living"] 1979-81
      • Faculty Seminar in Contemporary Literary Theory, Co-ordinator 1983-85
      • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Campus Representative 1983-93

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Hugh J. Silverman, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature
Dept. of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3750
Tel: (631) 331-4598; (631) 632-7592; Fax: (631) 331-0142

Email: hsilverman@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

Last Updated: September 27, 2004