Committee	Name	type	Reports to	Purpose
0	AS	Academic Support	standing committee	CUSP	To systematically review and provide advice on broad policy issues relating to academic support, including the university calendar, scheduling and registration, scholarships and financial aid, classroom management, and summer school.
1	Athletics	Athletics	standing committee	CUSP	To review and provide advice on broad policy issues relating to intercollegiate athletics. \nProvide advice to the athletic director on such matters as financial aid for student athletes, residential life for student athletes, program balance between revenue and non-revenue sports, recruiting, admissions, NCAA compliance, and general intercollegiate athletic budgetary and operational matters. \nProvide advice to the executive vice president and provost on matters related to academic progress of athletes, the admission policy for athletes, academic advising of athletes, and relations with academic departments and faculty in general. \nParticipate in the search process for the selection of the athletic director. The committee will also participate in periodic evaluations of the athletic director in coordination with the university official to whom the athletic director reports.
2	BPC	Budgeting and Planning	standing committee	UC	The Budgeting and Planning Committee serves a primary advisory role for the university budgeting and planning process. Areas for consideration include monitoring the university planning and budgeting processes; participating in and advising on the development of annual budgets (including the formulation of the university plan), the development of university capital and facilities plans, and the reconciliation of the plan and the available resources; consulting on other budgetary and planning matters; and addressing matters of policy relative to budgeting and planning appropriate for governance consideration, and in such instances, making recommendations to the University Council.
3	CDC	Campus Development	standing committee	UCC	To make recommendations and to serve as a conduit to disseminate information and solicit feedback concerning the planned physical development of the university’s built environment, specifically as it relates to buildings, grounds, and transportation planning.
4	CASEC	Climate Action, Sustainability, and Energy	standing committee	UCC	To provide guidance to the university administration on implementation of the university's Climate Action Commitment and opportunities to enhance Virginia Tech’s pursuit of environmental quality and social sustainability. The committee makes recommendations regarding the application of policies; infrastructural and operational changes; educational strategies and modifications; and other steps intended to foster broad engagement with the university’s environmental goals. The committee oversees subcommittees that each carry out aspects of the committee’s charge.
5	Commencement	Commencement	standing committee	CFA	To plan and implement the University's Commencement programs.
6	EBC	Employee Benefits	standing committee	CSPA	To recommend policies and to advise the University Administration in matters relating to employee benefits.
7	EBC	Employee Benefits	standing committee	CFA	To recommend policies and to advise the University Administration in matters relating to employee benefits.
8	EBC	Employee Benefits	standing committee	CAPFA	To recommend policies and to advise the University Administration in matters relating to employee benefits.
9	FH	Faculty Honorifics	standing committee	CFA	To review credentials and achievements of candidates or nominees for university faculty awards or for university nominations for external awards as charged by the executive vice president and provost or the president (where that responsibility is not vested in other committees), and to make recommendation to the executive vice president and provost or the president, as appropriate. In addition, the committee shall review nominations for honorary degrees to be awarded by the university.
10	ITSS	Information Technology Services and Systems	standing committee	UCC	To make recommendations for the effective offering and utilization of the university’s information technology services and systems, and to recommend policies that relate to the governance of these services and systems. The committee’s scope of concerns includes all information technology services and systems related to instruction, research, outreach, and administration at the university. The committee organizes into subcommittees to address specific aspects of information technology and services and to report to the committee. Each subcommittee will be chaired by a member of the Division of IT with other members being assigned or volunteering based on interest or knowledge of subject matter area.
11	IP	Intellectual Property	standing committee	COR	To make policy recommendations to the executive vice president and provost dealing with patents, copyrights, and related mechanisms for the protection/exploitation of intellectual properties.
12	Library	Library	standing committee	CGPSP	To disseminate knowledge and make recommendations concerning policies, services, and development of the university's libraries.
13	Library	Library	standing committee	CUSP	To disseminate knowledge and make recommendations concerning policies, services, and development of the university's libraries.
14	Library	Library	standing committee	COR	To disseminate knowledge and make recommendations concerning policies, services, and development of the university's libraries.
15	TP	Transportation and Parking	standing committee	UCC	To review and recommend rules and regulations governing traffic (including pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicles), parking (including permit sales, citations and special events), and alternative transportation methods; review and recommend programs to enhance campus parking, traffic, and transportation methods.
16	UCCGE	University Curriculum Committee for General Education	standing committee	CUSP	To give leadership to the Pathways General Education curriculum through program evaluation, advising support, dissemination of information, alignment of transfer credit, and other actions, including curricular proposal review, as needed.