Committee Members 2022/23

Faculty Senate Executive Committee

  • MJ Sedlock, President
  • Todd Zoroya, Vice President
  • William “Dee” Nichols, Past President
  • Kathryn Slott, Secretary
  • Michael Scott, Board of Trustees Representative
  • Ivan Manev, Faculty Governance Council Representative
  • Michael Grillo Chair, Academic Affairs
  • Sam Hanes Chair, General Education – Sub Committee of Academic Affairs
  • Mike Scott & Mauricio DaCunha Co-Chairs, Financial and Institutional Planning
  • Stephanie Burnett & Robert Rice Co-Chairs, Library Advisory Committee
  •  Chair, Committee on Committees
  • Todd Zoroya & Kathryn Slott Co-Chair  Constitution and Bylaws
  • David Townsend Chair, Program Creation, Review & Reorganization
  • Sean Smith Chair, Research and Scholarship
  •  Chair, Service and Outreach
  • Amanda Klemmer & Harlan Onsrud Co-Chairs, Environment Committee
  • Todd Zoroya Chair, IT Committee
  • Ivan Manev, Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Shared Governance
  • MJ Sedlock Chair, Ad Hoc Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Academic Affairs

  • Michael Grillo, Chair
  • Emily Haigh
  • Sam Hanes
  • Kathryn Slott
  • Phil Dunn
  • Allison Gardner
  • Amber Roth
  • Henri Akono
  • Associate Provost  Jessica Miller, Ex Officio Member

General Education – Sub Committee of Academic Affairs

  • Sam Hanes, Chair
  • Stephanie Burnett
  • Derek Michaud
  • Dee Nichols
  • Elizabeth Payne
  • Daniel Puhlman
  • Mandy Barrington ex officio member
  • Brian Olsen ex off APSSSI

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

Committee on Committees 

Constitution and Bylaws

  • Amanda Klemmer, Chair
  • Kathryn Slott, Chair
  • Grant Miles
  • William “Dee” Nichols

Finance and Institutional Planning

  • Michael Scott, Chair
  • Mauricio DaCunha, Chair
  • Alice Bruce
  • Ivan Manev
  • Mark Haggerty
  • MJ Sedlock
  • David Townsend
  • Yifeng Zu

Library Advisory Committee

  • Stephanie Burnett & Robert Rice, Co-Chairs
  • Per Garder
  • Laura Cowan
  • Paula Drewniany
  • Henri Akono
  • Phil Dunn
  • Undisclosed (Graduate student representative)
  • Undisclosed (Undergraduate student representative)

Program Creation and Reorganization Review Committee

College of Natural Sciences, Forestry & Agriculture

  • David Townsend, Chair

College of Education & Human Development

  • William “Dee” Nichols

College of Engineering

  • Clay Wheeler
  • Peter Van Walsum

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

  • Mike Scott

Maine Business School

  • Dave Barrett

Research and Scholarship Committee

  • Sean Smith, Chair
  • Mauricio DaCunha
  • Renae Moran
  • Peter VanWalsum
  • Nuri Emanetoglu
  • Amanda Klemmer

Environment Committee

  • Amanda Klemmer & Tim Waring, Co-Chairs
  • Don Beith
  • Kristina Cammen
  • Eric Landis
  • Sara Lello
  • Tim Waring

Service & Outreach

  • Chair
  • Susan Bennett-Armistead
  • Debbie Bouchard
  • Anil Raj Kizha
  • Deborah Rooks-Ellis

FIT Committee

  • Todd Zoroya, Chair
  • Mike Scott
  • David Batuski
  • Alice Bruce
  • Dmitri Markovitch
  • Emily Haddad – Dean CLAS
  • Robin Sherman, Ex Officio
  • Peter Schilling (non rep)

Ad Hoc Shared Governance

  • Ivan Manev, Chair
  • Renae Moran
  • Michael Grillo
  • William “Dee” Nichols
  • Harlan Onsrud
  • David Townsend
  • Amanda Klemmer
  • Michael Scott

Ad Hoc Committee Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • MJ Sedlock, Chair
  • Rebecca Buchanan
  • Kristina Cammen
  • Nuri Emanetoglu
  • Michael Grillo
  • Heather Hamlin
  • Derek Michaud
  • Michael Scott
  • Andrew Thomas