Charge: The Faculty Senate serves as the official coordinating body for faculty perspectives on the Institution's academic activities and offers policy guidance to the administration on all issues concerning faculty welfare, conduct, and engagement. The charter and by-laws of the Faculty Senate can be found in the appendices of the Faculty Handbook.
Membership & Reporting: Members are elected by and from the faculty, with Department chairs being ineligible to serve. Faculty Senators/Deans conduct election for faculty members. The process for determining the number of senators representing each college is outlined in the bylaws of the Faculty Senate.
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 |
| Mark Mengerink (History) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Brian Williams (Political Science) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Cengiz Sen (Physics) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Sujing Wang (Computer Science) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| 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 |
| TBD (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 |
| Sommer K. Shackelford (Nursing) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
Business
| Gevog Sargsyan (At-large) |
FALL 2023-SUM 2026 |
| Ashraf El-Houbi (At-large) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
| Tim McCoy (School of Accounting Finance and Economics) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| James Slaydon (School of Accounting Finance and Economics) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| TBD (Management, Marketing, and General Business) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Minkyum Kim (Construction Management) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Vivek Natarajan (Business) |
FALL 2023-SUM 2026 |
| Xiao "Jerry" Zhang (Accounting and Information Systems) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
Education and Human Development
| Shelly Allen (At-large) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
| Daryl Ann Borel (At-large) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Daniel Chilek (Health and Kinesiology) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| James Laub (Educational Leadership) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Donna Fong (Educational Leadership) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Katherine Sprott (Teacher Education) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Mohamad [Khal] Hamza (Counseling) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
| Eunjin Kwon (Nutrition, Hospitality, and Human Services) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
Engineering
| Xuenjun Fan (At-large) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| Xing Wu (Civil) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| XianChang Li (Mechanical) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| John Gossage (Chemical) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
| Maryam Hamidi (Industrial) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
| Gleb Tcheslavski (Electrical) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
Fine Arts and Communication
| Andre Favors (At-large) |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
| Paul Hemenway (Communication & Media) |
FALL 2024-SUM 2027 |
| 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 |
Library
| Poornima Gunasekaran |
FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
| Penny Clark |
FALL 2023-SUM 2026 |