Faculty Senate

Charge: The Faculty Senate shall function as the official coordinating body of faculty views relating to the academic activities of the institution and shall provide policy advisement for the administration on all matters pertaining to the welfare, conduct, and involvement of the faculty. The charter and by-laws of the Faculty Senate are located in Appendix B of the Faculty Handbook.

Membership & Reporting: Members are elected from and by faculty. Department Chairs are ineligible to serve.

Additional archived minutes may be found on the Faculty Senate website.

Committee Members

Cheng-Hsien Lin, President
B. Garrick Harden, Vice President
Daryl Ann Borel, Secretary

Arts and Sciences
Ian Lian (At-large) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
Tina Kibbe (At-large) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
Mark Broome (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Jennifer Fowler (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Pat Heintzelman (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Matt Hoch (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Jane Liu (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Amanda Allison (Earth & Space Sciences) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
Wen Liu (Mathematics) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
James Armacost (Biology) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Perumalreddy [Chandru] P. Chandrasekaran (Chemistry) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Raymond Doe (Psychology) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
B. Garrick Harden (Sociology, Social Work, & Criminal Justice) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Raouth Kostandy (Nursing) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Sharon Joffe (English and Modern Languages) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Cheng-Hsien Lin (Sociology, Social Work, & Criminal Justice) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Elia Hatfield (English and Modern Languages) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Melissa Riley (Mathematics) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Jennifer Thedford (Nursing) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Mark Mengerink [FDL sub - Brendan Gillis] (History) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
J.P. Nelson (Political Science) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Cengiz Sen (Physics) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Sujing Wang (Computer Science) FALL 2021-SUM 2024

Business
Gevog Sargsyan (At-large) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
Ashraf El-Houbi (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Vivek Natarajan (Business) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
Xiao "Jerry" Zhang (Accounting and Information Systems) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Tim McCoy (Accounting) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Kelly Weeks (Business) FALL 2021-SUM 2024

Education and Human Development
Shelly Allen (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Kelly Brown (At-large) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Mohamad [Khal] Hamza (Counseling) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Eunjin Kwon (Nutrition, Hospitality, and Human Services) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Daniel Chilek (Health and Kinesiology) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Daryl Ann Borel (Educational Leadership) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Kathryn Washington (Educational Leadership) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Cristina Rios (Teacher Education) FALL 2021-SUM 2024

Engineering
Clayton Jeffryes (At-large) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
John Gossage (Chemical) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Maryam Hamidi (Industrial) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Gleb Tcheslavski (Electrical) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Mien Jao (Civil) FALL 2021-SUM 2024
Chun-Wei Yao (Mechanical) FALL 2021-SUM 2024

Fine Arts and Communication
Andre Favors (At-large) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Chelsea Lyles (Speech and Hearing Sciences) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
Eric McCluskey (Music) FALL 2023-SUM 2026
Alan Brincks (Theatre & Dance) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Xenia Fedorchenko (Art and Design) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Lillian Felipe (Speech and Hearing Sciences) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Briella Frost (Music) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Millicent Musyoka (Deaf Studies and Deaf Education) FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Stephan Malick (Communication & Media) FALL 2021-SUM 2024

Library
Poornima Gunasekaran FALL 2022-SUM 2025
Penny Clark FALL 2023-SUM 2026