Standing Committees and Ad hoc Committees

The Standing Committees of the Faculty Senate are mandated by the Faculty Senate Constitution and all committee members are senators.

Executive Committee

Jeni Loftus, Faculty Senate President, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
DeAnna Owens-Mosby, Past President, College of Education, Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership
Stephen Karr, President-Elect, Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, College of Communication and Fine Arts
Barbara Fitzgerald Esq., Secretary, College of Professional and Liberal Studies
Bradley Dixon, Parliamentarian, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of History
Kate Sorensen, Executive-At-Large, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, School of Accountancy
Shahram Pezeshk, Executive-At-Large, Herff College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

Committee on Committees

Stephanie Huette, Chair
Rhema Fuller
Xinhua Yu

Academic Policies Committee

Melanie Conroy, Chair
Edith Gnanadass
Andrew Hussey
Coe Lapossy
Francisco Muller-Sanchez

Academic Support Committee

Mark Sunderman, Chair
Elena Delavega
Joel Nichols
Michael O'Nele
Dursun Peksen
Will Robertson

Faculty Policies Committee

Laura Alderson, Chair
Joseph Hafer
Kristy Patrick-Lewis
Katy Ramsey Mason
Omar Skalli
Amy Wake

Research Policies Committee

William Alexander, Chair
Reza Banai
Eli Jones
Jeffrey Scraba
Srikar Velichety

Administrative Policies Committee

Greg Hughes, Chair
Eddie Jacobs
Miriam van Mersbergen
Sajjan Shiva
Stephen Watts

Library Policies

Carl Hess, Chair
Sean Driscoll
Andrew Keefer
Ryan Parish
Antonio de Velasco

Budget and Finance

Gensheng Liu, Chair
Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan
Carl Herickhoff
Máté Wierdl

Faculty Appeals Committee

Mark Gillenson, Chair
Frank Andrasik
Elise Blatchford
Jeffrey Byford
Sage Graham
Gretchen Peterson
Angela Sanders
Stephen Watts
Mohammed Yeasin
Joy Goldsmith
Gisele Goldstein
Mohamed Laradji
Annapoorna Mary
Timothy Ryan
Sajjan Shiva
Genae Strong
Scott Sundvall
Lawrence Weiss

The ad hoc Committees of the Faculty Senate are committees established by the Faculty Senate on an as-needed basis and committee members can be either senators or other members of the faculty.

Ad hoc Committees
Special Committee on Anti-Racism