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 2018-2019

Donna Cataldo, Senate President and Chair of the UAC

Downtown Phoenix campus:

• Robin Bonifas, President
• Simin Levinson, President-elect
• Tamara Rounds, Past President

Polytechnic campus:

• Nancy Cooke, President
• Yun Kang, President-elect
• Igor Shovkovy, Past President

Tempe campus:

• Joan McGregor, President
• Caroline Harrison, President-elect
• Shirley Rose, Past President

West campus:

• Owen Anderson,  President
• Ken Sweat, President-elect
• Stefan Stantchev, Past President

Parliamentarian:

• Denise Bodman, Tempe campus, 2018

Secretary for the Academic Assembly:

• Chris Kyselka, Sectretary of the Academic Assembly

2018-2019  Senate Standing Committee Chairs:

• Chris Kyselka,  Committee on Committees
• Helene Ossipov,  University Services and Facilities Committee
• Hongmin Li, Personnel Committee
• Stefania Tracogna, Student-Faculty and Policy Committee
• Lili Wang, Curriculum and Acadmic Programs Committee
• Thurmon Lockhart, Research and Creative Activities Committee

Ex officio non-voting members:

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