Advisory Boards - Internal Advisory Committee
The Advancement Initiatives Council was formed in March 2009 to serve as the internal advisory committee for the ADVANCE Rising Tide Center.
The NSF ADVANCE program office recommends the following membership: the project PI and co-PIs, faculty, key administrators, and staff who will be impacted by ADVANCE activities or who will be providing resources or services to the project.
2012-2013 Members
Chair
- Edward Ashworth, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
Principal Investigator
- Susan Hunter, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Co-Principal Investigators
- Amy Fried, Professor of Political Science
- Susan Gardner, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the ADVANCE Rising Tide Center
- Eleanor Groden, Director of the School of Biology & Ecology
- Karen Horton, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology
Faculty members
- Ali Abedi, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Amy Blackstone, Sociology
- Barbara Cole, Chemistry
- Michael Kinnison, Biology & Ecology
- Carol Kim, Molecular & Biomedical Sciences
Adminstrators and Staff members
- Robin Audesse, Assistant to the Provost
- Sharon Barker, Director Women’s Resource Center
- Aileen Fortune, Associate Extension Professor
- Susan Gardner, Director ADVANCE Rising Tide Center
- Jeff Hecker, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Julie Hopwood, Senior Advisor to the President
- Karen Kemble, Director Equal Opportunity
- Polly Moutevelis-Burgess, Director Employee Assistance Program
- John Rebar, Executive Director Cooperative Extension
- Judy Ryan, Associate Vice President for Human Resources and Administration
- Jeff St. John, Director of Center for Excellence in Teaching and Assessment
- Francine Sulinski, Assistant Director of Cooperative Extension
Membership Terms
- The first two faculty rotated off the committee in 2012
- Faculty senate provides two names each spring for new faculty members who will start in the fall
- Current Deans to serve four, and three years
- First Dean exited as the end of the spring semester 2012
