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Faculty and Staff Groups

Faculty and staff have numerous opportunities to share expertise and influence the culture of access and opportunity on campus.

Use these campus resources to support your personal and professional needs and to enhance to your professional growth and development as teachers, researchers, mentors and leaders.

The Black Faculty Caucus of the University of South Carolina exists to promote a strong sense of community, professional welfare, professional development and advocacy for Black faculty and the issues and/or university communities that concern and affect them. 

Each college or school has a diversity officer who reports to the dean. Diversity officers develop and implement unit-level strategic plans for diversity and inclusion focusing on composition, achievement, engagement and inclusion as the attributes of their inclusion efforts. Unit-level diversity officers also work closely with the university's chief diversity officer as (collectively) the Council of Academic Diversity Officers to support and advance university equity, inclusion and diversity efforts.

The Faculty Welfare Committee considers university policies and the enforcement of policies regarding the welfare of the faculty, such as faculty salaries, other compensation and benefits, and any matters affecting the workplace environment.

For more information about the Jewish Faculty and Staff Council, please contact:

Meir Muller, Ph.D., convener
Phone: 803-513-9615
Email: meir@sc.edu 

The Latino and Hispanic Faculty Caucus (LHFC) of the University of South Carolina (USC) is an advocacy and leadership organization.  It was established April 2016 to address critical issues in higher education that focus on the recruitment, retention, promotion, and advancement of Latino/a & Hispanic faculty at the University of South Carolina.

For more information about the LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Caucus, please contact: 

Ryan Dawkins
Phone: 803-576-6214
Email: dawkinrl@mailbox.sc.edu

Bri Newton
Phone: 803-777-4330
Email: newtonb2@mailbox.sc.edu 

The Provost’s Advisory Committee for Women’s Initiatives assesses current policies, recommends new policies and procedures, focuses on areas that need improvement and provides opportunities to enhance the quality of USC's campus community.

The Religious Affairs Committee oversees the religious life programs on campus and makes such recommendations to the President as may be appropriate. For more information about the Religious Affairs Committee, please contact:  

Anna Edwards, Ph.D., conveyor
Phone: 803-777-3497
Email: corpenia@mailbox.sc.edu

The Staff Senate's Policy and Well-being Committee considers the compensation, benefits, work/life balance, and well-being  of staff employees. This Committee shall research, report on, and recommend to the Staff Senate any action to be taken on issues concerning the general wellbeing of the staff at the University.

 


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