Strategic Action Group Committees

Faculty, staff, students, and administrators are serving on six committees to devise strategies and measures related to six goals adopted to advance UH.

National Competitiveness Committee

• Richard Willson, Committee Chair
  Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Biology & Biochemistry, and Biomedical Engineering
  Cullen College of Engineering
  
  
• Jerry Freiberg
  Professor of Education
  Project Director, Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline
  College of Education
  
  
• Jim Granato
  Associate Professor of Political Science
  Director, Center for Public Policy
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• Alex Ignatiev
  Professor of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemistry
  Director, Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center
  Director, Center for Advanced Materials
  College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  
  
• Earl Smith
  Dean, College of Optometry
  
  
  

Student Success Committee

• Sandy Coltharp, Committee Co-Chair
  Human Resources
  
  
• Dan Wells, Committee Chair
  Professor, Biology and Biochemistry
  College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  
  
• Libby Barlow
  Executive Director of Institutional Research and Institutional Effectiveness
  Academic Affairs
  
  
• Wynne Chin
  Professor, Decision and Information Sciences
  Bauer College of Business
  
  
• Sam Dike
  President, UH Student Government Association
  
  
• Agnes DeFranco
  Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Studies
  Academic Affairs
  
  
• Keith Kowalka
  Executive Director, University Center & Associated Facilities
  
  
• Adriana Kugler
  Associate Professor, Economics
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• David Mazella
  Associate Professor, English
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• Joe Pratt
  Cullen Professor of History and Business
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• Lawrence Williams
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology and Biochemistry
  College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Community Advancement Committee

• Lynn Maher, Committee Chair
  Professor & Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• Julia C. Babcock 
  Associate Professor
  Department of Psychology
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• Stephen Applewhite
  Associate Professor
  Center for Drug and Social Policy Research
  College of Social Work
  
  
• Warren Thomas Gregory
  Co-President, Graduate College of Social Work Student Association
  
  
• Robert  B. Johnson
  Associate Director, Center for Consumer Law
  Clinical Assistant Professor
  UH Law Center

• Rebecca E. Lee
  Director, Texas Obesity Research Center
  Associate Professor
  Health and Human Performance
  College of Education
  
  
• Susan Rogers
  Director, Community Design Resource Center
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
  
  
• Veronique Tran
  Director, Office of Undergraduate Discovery Programs
  
  

Athletic Competitiveness Committee

• Richard W. Scamell, Committee Chair
  Professor of Management Information Systems
  C. T. Bauer College of Business
  NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative
  
  
• Edward A. Blair
  Professor and Chair, Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship
  C. T. Bauer College of Business
  
  
• George Gamble
  Robert L. Grinaker Professor of Accountancy and Taxation
  Executive Director, Institute for Diversity and Cross-Cultural Management
  C. T. Bauer College of Business
  
  
• Joseph A. Kotarba
  Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
  College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
  
  
• Stuart A. Long
  Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Cullen College of Engineering
  Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research
  The Honors College
  
  
• David Maggard
  Director of Athletics
  
  
• Maria Peden
  Department of Athletics
  
  
• Allen R. Warner
  Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
  Director, Houston Area Teacher Center
  College of Education
  
  

National & Local Recognition Committee

• Richard Alderman, Committee Chair
  Associate Dean and Dwight Olds Chair in Law
  Law Center
  
  
• Lydia B. Tiede
  Assistant Professor, Political Science
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• Betsy D. Gelb
  Larry J. Sachnowitz Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship
  Bauer College of Business
  
  
• Brian Byrnes
  Associate Professor, School of Theatre
  College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  
  
• Blair Ault
  Student, Honors College
  
  
  

Resource Competitiveness Committee

• Earl Smith, Committee Chair
  Dean, College of Optometry