Officers and Committees
The following faculty currently serve as the Faculty Assembly's officers to represent George Mason University Korea's diverse faculty body:
- Prof. Claude Drolet (chair)
Additionally, the Faculty Assembly utilizes many standing committees to accomplish important faculty governance objectives. A list of the faculty standing committees and their current members follows.
The annual review committee is tasked with confidentially reviewing and rating annual teaching portfolios pursuant to the criteria established in the latest “Faculty Evaluation at Mason Korea: Contract and Promotion Guidelines” document published on Mason Korea’s HR site when the committee begins its annual reviews.
The annual review committee is chaired by the associate dean for faculty and academic affairs. These faculty are the annual review committee members, listed alphabetically by last name:
- Prof. Yingji Jin (chair);
- Prof. Leo Jung;
- Prof. Moon Joon Kim;
- Prof. Carey McCormack; and
- Prof. ChangGyo Ryu
The faculty affairs committee is tasked with developing and facilitating faculty initiatives, team building, morale, and welfare, including creating initiatives to help new faculty acclimate, defining teaching or curricular challenges to address and arranging relevant workshops, working with relevant leadership to advance experiential learning opportunities, and recommending teaching awards and teaching development stipends.
These faculty are the faculty affairs committee members, listed alphabetically by last name:
- Prof. Melissa Bruce;
- Prof. Tony Covello (chair); and
- Pro. Heung Gweon Sin
The faculty promotion committee is tasked with confidentially reviewing and rating faculty promotion application portfolios pursuant to the criteria established in the latest “Mason Korea Promotion Guidelines” document published on Mason Korea’s HR site when the committee begins its reviews.
These faculty are the faculty promotion committee members, listed alphabetically by last name:
The grievance committee hears faculty grievances involving violations of academic freedom, conditions of employment, and misconduct, and reviews temporary faculty removal from duties and responsibilities. However, pursuant to the Faculty Handbook, a grievance must instead be submitted to the Virginia campus university grievance committee if that grievance involves faculty from more than one college/school or is against the Korea campus associate dean of academic affairs or campus dean, or both.
The latest version of the grievance committee's policies and procedures are available here: Faculty Grievance Committee Policies and Procedures (September 2, 2021)
These faculty are the grievance committee members, listed alphabetically by last name:
- Prof. Brian Colchao (chair);
- Prof. Kimberlie Fair; and
- Prof. Jihye Lim
