2025-2026 Faculty Senate Executive Committee
The Executive Committee shall be composed of the officers and chairs of the standing committees of the Faculty Senate and the immediate past president. The committee shall be chaired by the president of the senate. This committee coordinates the business to come before the senate.
Any member of the faculty may present any problem or suggestion to the Faculty Senate for its consideration, provided the member notifies the senate president at least one week before the meeting at which he/she would like to appear.
Officers
President
Jessica L. Wildman
Professor and Program Chair, Industrial Organizational Psychology
Building 405QAD, Room 110
Secretary
Anna Muencrath
Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Communication
Crawford, Room 615
President (Elect)
Marshall Jones
Assistant Professor, School of Psychology
Building 405QAD, Room 104
Past President
Nakin Suksawang
Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
F.W. Olin Engineering Complex, Room 204
Academic Policies Committee
Vipuil Kishore (Chair)
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Health Sciences Research Building, Room 224
The committee shall be concerned with all policies of an academic nature that pertain to students, including recruitment, entrance requirements, class attendance regulations, student counseling, and placement and academic misconduct.
Welfare Committee
Marshall Jones (Chair)
Assistant Professor, School of Psychology
Building 405QAD, Room 104
The committee shall be concerned with policies that affect faculty welfare and morale. This committee should make recommendations concerning fringe benefits, tuition benefits, equity raises and other related matters.
Excellence Awards Committee
David Wilder (Chair)
Professor, School of Behavior Analysis
Scott Center for Autism Treatment, Room 208
The committee shall be concerned with providing opportunities that emphasize people and activities that significantly contribute to the excellence of the university's distinctive educational programs. Duties include providing recommendations on the use of monies for professional development; recognizing outstanding faculty in the areas of teaching, research and service; coordinating forums for faculty discussion on educational issues; and disseminating information about effective teaching.
Administrative Policies Committee
Mehmet Kaya (Chair)
Associate Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences
Edwin A. Link Building, 305
The committee shall be concerned with policies that relate to the employment conditions of the faculty and make recommendations relative to such policies as qualifications for promotion, contract renewals, research, teaching loads, extracurricular assignments, summer employment, absence, sabbatical leaves, travel, dissemination of information to and from the faculty, academic freedom and related policies.
Scholarship Committee
Alan Brown (Chair)
Professor of Chemistry
F.W. Olin Physical Sciences, Room 322
The committee shall be responsible for the administration and financial aspects of the senate’s scholarship program. The committee shall determine the number of scholarships and the departments to which scholarships will be awarded.
Technology, Resources, and Infrastructure (TRI) Committee
William Bowman (Chair)
Librarian
Evans Library
The committee shall be concerned with issues that relate to technology, resources, and infrastructure critical to faculty success in the core areas of teaching, research, and service. As an example, the committee shall provide recommendations to the faculty senate with regards to requirements in information technology, information assurance, educational equipment, learning management systems, enterprise architecture considerations, facilities, and critical technologies, resources, and infrastructure for faculty to conduct, evolve, and excel in their teaching, research, and service roles/missions. The committee will interact and participate with university committees as needed to represent faculty interests relative to technology, resources, and infrastructure.