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The Committee on Academic Priorities is charged with the responsibility for recommending academic priorities (including priorities concerning staffing allocations, department and program facilities and resources, and restructuring or terminating existing departments and programs) per Article III, Section 1(a)(ii) of the Plan of Governance and in the Faculty By-Laws, Article VI. E, and with the authority to advise the President on institutional priorities and on the College budget, to the extent that it affects institutional priorities. The Faculty may, to the extent that it deems it appropriate, assign additional responsibilities within the jurisdiction of the Faculty to this committee. You may also refer to the history of CAP and the CAP archives.

The 2024-2025 members of the Committee on Academic Priorities

• Tamara Davis (Biology) (Substitute Semester I & II) (Serves on the Assessment Committee)
• Astrid Lindenlauf (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology) (2022-2026) (on leave Semester I & II)
• Dee Matthews (Creative Writing) (2024-2028)
• Michael Noel (Physics) (2022-2026) (on leave Semester I)
• Adrienne Prettyman (Philosophy) (2023-2027) (Serves on the Budget Committee)
• Maja Å eÅ¡elj (Anthropology) (2021-2025) (Chair) (Serves on the Advisory Council and Representative to the Board of Trustees)
• Cindy Sousa (Social Work and Social Research) (2023-2027) (Serves on the Strategic Advisory Group)

Former Recent Chairs of the Committee on Academic Priorities

• Kate Thomas (Literatures in English) (2023-2024)
• Penny Armstrong (French and Francophone Studies) (2021-2022; 2022-2023)
• Dianna Xu (Computer Science) (2020-2021)