RSCA Advisory Committee

Committee Charge

• Serve as an advisory group providing input and feedback to the College Associate Dean (AD) for Academics.
• Determine the current scholarly interests and needs of College of Information, Data and Society faculty and select and support appropriate seminar and workshop topics to meet those needs.
• Act as information conduits between their department colleagues and the College AD for Academics on matters related to research and scholarship, providing input when requested and sharing college and university-level information from the AD for Academics with colleagues.
• Serve as reviewers for the various RSCA awards offered annually by the university.
• Help organize writing support through writing groups.
• Support student research in the college as appropriate.
• Conduct annual College of Information, Data and Society RSCA metric survey and perform analysis.
• Organize and host an annual college-wide Online Student Conference.

Committee Composition

The committee consists of representatives from each Department/School within the College of Information, Data and Society; one of the members will be chosen as the committee chair.

Committee Members: 2024-2025

• José Aguiñaga, School of Information
• Mary Ann Harlan, School of Information
• Guannan Liu, Applied Data Science
• Norman Mooradian, School of Information 
• Vishnu Pendyala, Applied Data Science
• Virginia Tucker, School of Information (Committee Chair)
• Sandy Hirsh, Associate Dean for Academics (College Representative)