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 2025-2026
Elisa Kawam, Senate President and Chair of the UAC
Downtown Phoenix campus:
- Ian Derk, President
- Maureen McCoy, President-elect
- Tamara Rounds, Past President
Polytechnic campus:
- David Burel, President
- Penny Dolin, President-elect
Chad Kennedy, Past President
Tempe campus:
- Sarah Bolmarcich, President
- Jenny Brian, President-elect
- Elena Rocchi, Past President
West campus:
- Eduardo Pagan, President
- Hala King, President-elect
Mary Burleson, Past President
Parliamentarians:
Secretary for the Academic Assembly:
2025-2026 Senate Standing Committee Chairs:
- Elisa Bienenstock, Committee on Committees
- Claudia Villegas-Silva and Stefan Stantchev, Digitally Enhance Teaching and Learning Ad Hoc Committee
- Bruno Welfert, University Services and Facilities Committee
- Jodi Swanson, Personnel Committee
- Whitney Hansen, Student-Faculty and Policy Committee
- Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee
- Michael Todd, Research and Creative Activities Committee
- Claudia Villegas-Silva, 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