Standing Committees and Ad hoc Committees

The Standing Committees of the Faculty Senate are mandated by the Faculty Senate Constitution and all committee members are senators.

Executive Committee

• Jeni Loftus, Faculty Senate President, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
• DeAnna Owens-Mosby, Past President, College of Education, Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership
• Stephen Karr, President-Elect, Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, College of Communication and Fine Arts
• Barbara Fitzgerald Esq., Secretary, College of Professional and Liberal Studies
• Bradley Dixon, Parliamentarian, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of History
• Kate Sorensen, Executive-At-Large, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, School of Accountancy
• Shahram Pezeshk, Executive-At-Large, Herff College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

Committee on Committees

• Stephanie Huette, Chair
• Rhema Fuller
• Xinhua Yu

Academic Policies Committee

• Melanie Conroy, Chair
• Edith Gnanadass
• Andrew Hussey
• Earnestine Jenkins
• Francisco Muller-Sanchez

Academic Support Committee

• Mark Sunderman, Chair
• Elena Delavega
• Joel Nichols
• Michael O'Nele
• Dursun Peksen
• Will Robertson

Faculty Policies Committee

• Laura Alderson, Chair
• Joseph Hafer
• Kristy Patrick-Lewis
• Katy Ramsey Mason
• Omar Skalli
• Amy Wake

Research Policies Committee

• William Alexander, Chair
• Reza Banai
• Eli Jones
• Jeffrey Scraba
• Srikar Velichety

Administrative Policies Committee

• Greg Hughes, Chair
• Eddie Jacobs
• Miriam van Mersbergen
• Sajjan Shiva
• Stephen Watts

Library Policies

• Carl Hess, Chair
• Sean Driscoll
• Andrew Keefer
• Ryan Parish
• Antonio de Velasco

Budget and Finance

• Gensheng Liu, Chair
• Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan
• Carl Herickhoff
• Máté Wierdl 

Faculty Appeals Committee

• Mark Gillenson, Chair
• Frank Andrasik
• Elise Blatchford
• Jeffrey Byford
• Sage Graham
• Gretchen Peterson
• Angela Sanders
• Stephen Watts
• Mohammed Yeasin
• Joy Goldsmith
• Gisele Goldstein
• Mohamed Laradji
• Annapoorna Mary
• Timothy Ryan
• Sajjan Shiva
• Genae Strong
• Scott Sundvall
• Lawrence Weiss

The ad hoc Committees of the Faculty Senate are committees established by the Faculty Senate on an as-needed basis and committee members can be either senators or other members of the faculty.

Ad hoc Committees
Special Committee on Anti-Racism