I.D. Describe Program Governance System and Provide Organizational Chart for Program
During winter quarter 2006, the PBE program and affiliate faculty completed a charter to bring the program in alignment with college-wide interdisciplinary program guidelines. This charter has been submitted to the dean of the College of the Sciences and as of spring quarter 2007 is in the process of being formally approved by the dean and provost. The charter defines program facultyas adjunct, tenured, or tenure-track Central faculty members whose scholarship, instruction, or service activities are in areas that support primatology, ecology, and/or behavior. The anthropology, psychology, and biology departments must each be represented by at least one program faculty member. The PBE director is a member of the program faculty and is elected by the members of the advisory committee. PBE affiliate faculty include the chairs of the departments of anthropology, biology, and psychology and any non-faculty co-directors of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute. The PBE advisory committee is comprised of all program faculty, all affiliate faculty, the dean of the College of the Sciences, and community members (the latter are appointed to the committee upon approval of the program faculty; currently no community members serve on the advisory committee). Members of the advisory committee are all eligible to vote on issues relating to the PBE program, with the exception of the dean of the College of the Sciences. The voting status of community members was not determined at the time the charter was developed and should be considered when the charter is next revised. The PBE advisory committee makes recommendations to the program director regarding curriculum, mission and goals, charter, budgetary expenditures, and all other aspects of the program.