Committee on Academic Priorities (CAP)

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 2025-2026 members of the Committee on Academic Priorities

• Astrid Lindenlauf (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology) (2022–2026)
• Pedro Marenco (Geology) (2025–2029)
• Dee Matthews (Creative Writing) (Member 2024–Fall 2025; Provost and ex officio member beginning Spring 2026)
• Michael Noel (Physics) (2022–2026) (on leave Fall 2025)
• Adrienne Prettyman (Philosophy) (2023–2027) (Chair; Serves on the Advisory Council and as a representative to the Board of Trustees)
• Joel Schlosser (Political Science) (2025–2029) (on leave Spring 2026)
• Maja Šešelj (Anthropology) (2025–2026) (Substitute Spring 2026)

Former Recent Chairs of the Committee on Academic Priorities

• Maja Šešelj (Anthropology) (2024-2025)
• Kate Thomas (Literatures in English) (2023-2024)
• Penny Armstrong (French and Francophone Studies) (2021-2022; 2022-2023)

Guidelines for Position RequestsCurrent and Prior Position RequestsCAP Annual Reports