Student-Faculty Policy Committee
Purpose and Functions
To serve in a policy-forming and advising capacity in matters governing student conduct, consistent with the Rules for Maintenance of Public Order and the Student Code of Conduct, in matters concerning student organizations, and in other matters related to students, including:
- Undergraduate and graduate admission and readmission policies and procedures
- Registration, graduation requirements, grading policies, scheduling, withdrawal policies, course load maximums, and program of study filing requirements
- Student activities related to academic development, including: advisement, counseling, and academic organizations
- Policy development with respect to student-faculty-administration relationships
- Review of organized extra-classroom activities to assess their continued effective relation to university academic goals
- Policy development with respect to academic integrity
- Review of undergraduate education, including teaching in a research institution.
Membership Guidelines
- Elected: 11 senators, including representation from each of the campuses. The committee should have representation from tenure/tenure eligible as well as non-tenure eligible faculty
- Ex officio nonvoting members: the university president, the provost of the university, the chair of the UAC, the dean of Student Affairs, and one representative each from Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Students Association, or their designees
- The term of elected members shall be two years. One-half of the elected members shall be replaced each year.
Roster 2025-2026
Chair:
- Whitney Hansen, Psychology, Tempe campus 2026
Co-Chair:
- Jeffrey Timmermans, Journalism and Mass Communication, Downtown Phoenix campus 2026
Members:
- Joya Scott, School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Tempe campus 2026
- Renee Hughner, Morrison School of Agribusiness, Polytechnic campus 2026
- Sangram Redkar, School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Polytechnic campus 2026
- Jonathan Parrott, School of Interdisciplinary Forensics, West Valley campus 2026
- Sungik Yang, SHPRS -History, Tempe campus 2026
- Jason Kelley, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe campus 2026
- Steele Brand, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Tempe campus 2026
- Cam DeCaussin, School of Art, Tempe campus 2026
Judith Klein-Seetharaman, College of Health Solutions, Tempe campus 2026
Ex officio non-voting members:
- Michael M. Crow, University President
- Nancy Gonzales, Executive Vice President and University Provost
- Elisa Kawam, Chair of the UAC
- Lance Harrop, Dean of Student Affairs
- Sedra Shahin, Undergraduate Student Government
- Graduate and Professional Students Association, or their designee