Committee Members 2017/18

Faculty Senate Executive Committee
(Committee updates will be made in September)

  • Michael Scott, President
  • David Townsend, Vice President
  • Grant Miles, Secretary
  • Patti Miles, Board of Trustees Representative
  • William “Dee” Nichols, Chair, Academic Affairs
  • Rick Borgman, Chair, Committee on Committees
  • David Townsend, Chair, Constitution and Bylaws
  • Mauricio da Cunha, Financial and Institutional Planning
  • Farahad Dastoor, General Education – Sub Committee of Academic Affairs
  • Howard Segal, Library Advisory Committee
  • Clayton Wheeler, Chair, Program Creation, Review & Reorganization
  • Deborah Saber &, Co-Chair, Research and Scholarship
  • Susan Bennett Armistead, Chair, Service and Outreach
  • Stephanie Welcomer, Chair, University Environment
  • , Chair, Ad-Hoc Committee on IT
  • , Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Shared Governance

Academic Affairs

  • William “Dee” Nichols, Chair
  • Associate Provost Jeff St. John
  • Dean Astumian
  • Tony Brinkley
  • Dick Brucher
  • Farahad Dastoor
  • Thane Fremouw
  • Rob Meulenberg
  • Kathryn Slott

Committee on Committees 

Constitution and Bylaws

  • David Townsend, Chair
  • Christopher Nightingale
  • Kathryn Slott

Finance and Institutional Planning

  • Mauricio da Cunha, Chair
  • Jason Bolton
  • Tony Brinkley
  • Nuri Emanetoglu
  • Thane Fremouw
  • Mark Haggerty
  • Robson Machado
  • Grant Miles

General Education – Sub Committee of Academic Affairs

  • Farahad Dastoor, Chair
  • Philip Dunn
  • Sam Hanes
  • Patti Miles
  • William “Dee” Nichols

Ex Officio Members:

Faculty Senate Representative to the Undergraduate Program Curriculum Committee

Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Assessment (CETA)

Chair, Provost’s Committee on Student Learning Outcomes Assessment and Improvement

Library Advisory Committee

  • Howard Segal, Chairs
  • Susan Bennett-Armistead
  • Julie DellaMattera
  • Paula Drewniany
  • Per Garder
  • Bob Rice
  • Deborah Rogers
  • Patti Miles
  • Alyce Lew

Program Creation and Reorganization Review Committee

  • Clayton Wheeler, Chair
  • Tony Brinkley
  • Mark Haggerty
  • Grant Miles
  • William “Dee” Nichols
  • Deborah Saber
  • Rob Meulenberg
  • Nigel Pitt
  • Jason Bolton
  • Chris Nightingale
  • Rick Borgman

Research and Scholarship

  • Deborah Saber & , Co-Chairs
  • Dean Astumian
  • Nuri Emanetoglu
  • Mauricio Pereira Da Cunha
  • Peter Koons
  • Anil Raj Kizha
  • Rob Meulenberg
  • Debbie Saber
  • Phil Trostel
  • Mark Wells
  • Xudong Zheng

Service and Outreach

  • Susan Bennett Armistead, Chair
  • Jason Bolton
  • Anil Raj Kizha
  • Rob Machado

University Environment

  • Stephanie Welcomer, Chair
  • Erik Blomberg
  • Julie DellaMattera
  • Nuri Emanetoglu
  • Patti Miles
  • Laura Rickard
  • Seth Tyler

Ad Hoc IT Advisory Committee

  • , Chairs
  • Patti Miles
  • Torsten Hahmann
  • Alice Bruce

Ad Hoc Shared Governance

  • , Chair
  • Grant Miles
  • Renae Moran
  • Alice Bruce