Faculty Governance Committee

The general purpose of the committee is to monitor faculty governance, and to represent the faculty to the administration and the Board of Regents.

Membership

Term Exp.

Faculty/Department

Timothy Mahr 2013 Fine Arts
Anthony Becker, Chair 2013 Social Sciences
John Giannini 2014 Natural Sciences and
Mathematics
Anthony Lott 2013 Interdisciplinary and General Studies
Jeanine Grenberg 2013 Humanities
Leon Narvaez 2013 At-large
Ashley Hodgson 2014 At-large
Minda Orina 2014 At-large
Jolene Barjasteh 2014 At-large
Nancy Thompson 2013 At-large
Mary Carlsen 2013 Faculty Observer to the Board of Regents
Rick Goedde 2014 Faculty Observer-Elect
to the Board of Regents
David Anderson ex-officio President
Marci Sortor ex-officio Provost and Dean of the College
Alan Norton ex-officio Vice President and Treasurer
Phyllis Larson ex-officio Assistant Provost
Melody Rosen 2013 Student Representative

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities of the committee include:
  • make recommendations on faculty governance
  • advise the administration on faculty meetings, college governance and college planning
  • review and make recommendations to the faculty on changes to the Faculty Manual
  • appoint from its own membership five faculty to serve on the Regents-Faculty Conference Committee
  • oversee faculty membership on faculty committees, to nominate candidates for committee elections, and to coordinate elections
  • select hearing committees as specified under Dismissal Proceedings (Section 4.XVII).

Terms of Office: Faculty representatives serve two-year terms with terms of office staggered.

The Faculty Governance Committee replaces the following committees: