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 2020-2021

Simin Levinson, Senate President and Chair of the UAC

Downtown Phoenix campus:

• Ann Sebren, President
• Johannah Uriri-Glover, President-elect
• Tamara Rounds, Past President

Polytechnic campus:

•  Penny Dolin, President
•  Chris Kyselka, President-elect
• Yun Kang, Past President

Tempe campus:

• Greg Stone, President
• LaDawn Haglund, President-elect
• Shirley Rose, Past President

West campus:

•  Eduardo Pagán, President
•  Mary Burleson, President-elect
• Ken Sweat, Past President

Parliamentarian:

• Denise Bodman, Tempe campus, 2021

Secretary for the Academic Assembly:

• Chris Kyselka, Secretary of the Academic Assembly

2020-2021  Senate Standing Committee Chairs:

• Nicole Blaize Nolan,  Committee on Committees
• Khaerannisa Cortes,  University Services and Facilities Committee
• Mary Jane Parmentier, Personnel Committee
• Scott Day, Student-Faculty and Policy Committee
• Denise Bodman, Curriculum and Acadmic Programs Committee
• David Sailor, Research and Creative Activities Committee
• Sarah Bolmarcich, Library Liason Committee

Ex officio non-voting members:

• University President
• University Provost
• Graduate and Professional Students Association Representative
• Undergraduate Student Representative