Academic Advancement Committee

Faculty members for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
Some committees have additional student, staff, and ex-officio members. See SharePoint for full committee lists. At the beginning of each year, the committee selects an Associate Chair who is designated to become the Chair of the committee the following year.

Chair: Jose Ignacio Aguirre
Associate Chair: TBD

	Name	Department	Email
	Jose I Aguirre	Department of Physiological Sciences	aguirrej@ufl.edu
	Todd C Holbrook	Large Animal Clinical Sciences	tholbrook@ufl.edu
	Rosanna Marsella	Small Animal Clinical Sciences	marsella@ufl.edu
	Robert J Ossiboff	Department of Comparative, Diagnostic & Population Medicine	rossiboff@ufl.edu
	Luisito S Pablo	Department of Comparative, Diagnostic & Population Medicine	pablochi@ufl.edu
	Federico R Vilaplana Grosso	Small Animal Clinical Sciences	fvilaplanagrosso@ufl.edu

Duties

The academic advancement committee is a regular standing faculty committee that evaluates the academic performance of professional veterinary students. The committee (1) monitors the academic performance of professional veterinary students who do not meet program standards, (2) monitors ethical performance and readiness to practice veterinary medicine, and (3) decides remedial and disciplinary action for students with deficiencies.

Membership

The committee shall consist of six faculty members, two from each phase (I, II, and III) of the professional DVM curriculum. This committee shall annually elect its own Chair from the faculty members. An Associate Chair will be elected at the start of the year who advances to the Chair position in the following year to assure adequate preparation and orderly progression to committee Chair responsibilities. The Associate Chair will serve as the acting Chair in the absence of the Chair. The Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs will serve as an ex-officio, non-voting member.

Procedures

The procedures of this committee shall be consistent with those specified in the College of Veterinary Medicine Student Handbook. The committee and the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs (or equivalent or designate) shall minimally meet following the posting of grades at the end of each term to review questions of student performance for the concluded term. Additional meetings to consider special situations shall be called by the Chair. All students who are asked to meet with this committee will be accompanied by his or her academic advisor. All deliberations shall be strictly confidential and the integrity of records shall be maintained by the Office for Academic and Student Affairs. A report will be made annually to quantify activity will be forwarded to the administration, and placed electronically for public access.