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