University Senate Executive Committee

Purpose and Function

• To prepare the agenda for meetings of the University Senate. Each agenda shall reserve time for the university president to bring matters to the senate and for reports from senate committees
• To facilitate the actions of the senate as it acts upon faculty and academic professional business
• To evaluate continuously the committee structure of the senate and of the university, and to recommend improvements thereof to the senate
• To provide advice to the UAC and to senate committee chairs, and to coordinate their functions
• To direct pending business of the senate to the appropriate committee(s)
• To perform other functions as the senate and UAC may direct.

Membership Guidelines

• Ex officio voting members: the members of the UAC, the secretary of the University Senate, the parliamentarian of the University Senate, the chairs of University Senate standing committees
• Ex officio nonvoting members: the university president, the provost of the university, a representative of Undergraduate Student Government, and the president of the Graduate and Professional Students Association
• The chair of the UAC or his or her designee shall preside.

Roster 2026-2027

Elisa Kawam, Senate President and Chair of the UAC

Downtown Phoenix campus:

• Maureen McCoy, President 
• Julie Sullivan-Detheridge, President-elect

• Ian Derk, Past President

   

Polytechnic campus:

• Penny Dolin, President
• Michael Gifford, President-elect

• David Burel, Past President

   

Tempe campus:

• Jenny Brian, President
• Samantha Perkins, President-elect 
• Sarah Bolmarcich, Past President

West campus:

• Hala King, President
• Seth Rachlin, President-elect 

• Eduardo Pagan, Past President

   

Parliamentarians:

• Bethany Bustamante Van Vleet 
• Denise Bodman

Secretary for the Academic Assembly:

• Philip VanderMeer

2026-2027 Senate Standing Committee Chairs:

• Elisa Bienenstock, Committee on Committees
• David Burel , Digitally Enhance Teaching and Learning Ad Hoc Committee
• Jessica Lehmann, Health Wellness and Safety Committee 
• Debbie Ritter-Williams, University Services and Facilities Committee
• Jodi Swanson, Personnel Committee

• Donald Frost , Student-Faculty and Policy Committee

   

• Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee
• Sarah Bolmarcich , Research and Creative Activities Committee
• Taylor Hines , Library Liaison Committee

Ex officio non-voting members:

• Michael M. Crow, University President
• Nancy Gonzales, Executive Vice President and University Provost
• Graduate and Professional Students Association Representative
• Undergraduate Student Representative