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

• Stephen Watts, President, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice 
• Jeni Loftus, Past President, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
• Jeff Thieme, Secretary, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, Department of Marketing
• William Alexander, Parliamentarian, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Chemistry
• Laura Alderson, Executive-At-Large, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, Department of Managment 
• Shahram Pezeshk, Executive-At-Large, Herff College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

Committee on Committees

• Rhema Fuller, Chair
• Elena Delavega
• Stephanie Huette
• Eli Jones
• Ruoxu Wang

Academic Policies Committee

• Elizabeth Gillespie, Chair
• Melanie Conroy
• Andrew Hussey
• Earnestine Jenkins
• Max Paquette
• John Yorke

Academic Support Committee

• Mark Sunderman, Chair
• Brad Dixon
• Sean Driscoll
• Andrew Keefer

Faculty Policies Committee

• Eugene Buder, Chair
• Genia Bettencourt
• Danielle Copes
• Laurie MacGillivray
• Kristy Patrick-Lewis
• Amy Wake

Research Policies Committee

• Chrysanthe Preza, Chair Designate
• Reza Banai
• James Fahey
• Francisco Muller-Sanchez
• Marika Snyder

Administrative Policies Committee

• Jeffrey Scraba, Chair
• Sajjan Shiva
• Micah Trapp
• Xinhua Yu

Library Policies

• Carl Hess, Chair
• Barbara Fitzgerald
• Ryan Parish
• Omar Skalli
• Antonio de Velasco

Budget and Finance

• Carl Herickhoff, Chair
• Amir Hadadzadeh
• Irena Lasiecka
• Gensheng (Jason) Liu
• Nirmalee Raddatz

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