The CS department’s committees are composed as below.
Promotion and Tenure Committee
Chair: Jonathan Cook
Members: all tenured faculty except the department head
Primary duties:
- Review annual evaluations of tenure-track faculty members.
- Provide recommendations for the promotion and tenure of faculty members.
Undergraduate Committee
Chair: Jonathan Cook
Members: Son Tran, Phoebe Toups Dugas, Bill Hamilton, Parth Nagarkar, Joshua Reynolds (Cybersecurity Coordinator)
Primary duties:
- Maintain contact with NMSU and with the other programs on campus.
- Act as a source of information and advice to the undergraduate students.
- Design and maintain requirements, policies, and procedures concerning undergraduate degrees and undergraduate studies in Computer Science.
- Maintain ABET accreditation.
- Perform outcome assessments.
- Help to ensure consistency of procedure/policy/standards in evaluations of senior projects.
- Oversee the undergraduate curriculum.
- Propose disciplinary actions in individual cases.
- Arrange publicity for the CS undergraduate programs.
Graduate Committee
Chair: Mingzhou (Joe) Song
Members: Roopa Vishwanathan (MS+BS Coordinator), Inna Pivkina, Tuan Le, Huiping Cao, Son Tran
Primary duties:
- Serve as the official point of contact for the Graduate Program.
- Maintain contact with the NMSU Graduate School and with the other programs on campus.
- Act as a source of information and advice to the graduate students.
- Design and maintain requirements, policies and procedures concerning graduate degrees and graduate studies in Computer Science.
- Arrange for appropriate faculty members to write, administer and grade Qualifying Examinations for PhD students.
- Help to ensure consistency of procedure/policy/standards across doctoral and master’s committees, especially with regard to the conduct of Comprehensive Examinations, Prospectus Evaluations and Master’s Final Exam Evaluations.
- Oversee the graduate curriculum.
- Propose disciplinary actions in individual cases.
- Propose and monitor admission policies and procedures, evaluate admission applications, and arrange publicity for the CS graduate programs.
Diversity, Retention, and Recruitment Committee
Chair: Inna Pivkina
Members: Son Tran
Primary duties:
- Analyzing student needs and market trends.
- Identifying and promoting best practices for a diverse student population.
- Developing and deploying strategies for retention and recruitment.
Research Committee
Chair: Jay Misra
Members: Roopa Vishwanathan, Bill Hamilton, Son Tran
Primary duties:
- Developing department strategies for research thrusts.
- Identifying opportunities for grant proposals.
- Organizing proposal development.
Publicity Committee
Chair: Bill Hamilton
Members: Son Tran
Primary duties:
- Develop and maintain the department website to ensure that all information is kept up to date.
- Maintain and update the department Facebook and Twitter accounts with departmental news.
- Create and disseminate the department newsletter.
ABET and Assessment Committee
Chair: Huiping Cao
Members: Son Tran
Primary duties:
- Maintain ABET accreditation.
- Conduct assessment of graduate programs.
- Conduct assessment of undergraduate programs.