Faculty Senate Elections

Every year during the spring semester, faculty nominate and elect individuals to represent themselves as members of Faculty Senate. Members serve three-year terms, and upon the end of their term, cannot be elected until two years have passed. Resources related to the election process can be found below, including faculty not eligible for nomination, continuing faculty senate members, and the nomination form.

Eligibility

The following persons are eligible for election to the Faculty Senate:

1) individuals with an employee classification of faculty, including the library faculty, who possess tenure, and

2) individuals with an employee classification of faculty or unclassified academic staff with full‑time appointments. Eligible job titles include, but are not limited to:  

  • Clinical professor, clinical associate professor, or clinical assistant professor;
  • Instructor or clinical instructor;
  • Lecturer, senior lecturer, or multi-term lecturer;
  • Librarian, associate librarian, or assistant librarian;
  • Professor, associate professor, or assistant professor;
  • Professor of the practice, associate professor of practice, or assistant professor of practice;
  • Research professor, associate research professor, or assistant research professor;
  • Senior curator, associate curator, or assistant curator;
  • Senior scientist, associate scientist, or assistant scientist;
  • Senior specialist, associate specialist, or assistant specialist;
  • Teaching professor, associate teaching professor, or assistant teaching professor.

Faculty Not Eligible for Nomination

Andi Back, Associate Librarian, Libraries 

Betsy Barnhart, Associate Professor, Industrial Design, Architecture & Design

Victor Gonzalez, Assistant Teaching Professor, Biological Sciences, CLAS

Jonathan Mayhew, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS

Colin McRoberts, Associate Teaching Professor, School of Business

Brad Osborn, Associate Professor, School of Music

Russell Osterman, Associate Professor, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, School of Engineering 

Anne Patterson, Lecturer, Architecture, School of Architecture & Design

Muhammad Hashim Raza, Assistant Professor, Child Language, CLAS

Roberta Schwartz, Associate Professor, School of Music

Sean Seyer, Assistant Professor, History, CLAS 

 

 

 

 

 

Amanda Mollet, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Education & Human Sciences

Barbara Kerr, Distinguished Professor, Educational Psychology, Education & Human Sciences

Ben Chappell, Associate Professor, American Studies, CLAS

Margaret Marco, Professor & Director, Music

Maya Stiller, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, History of Art, CLAS

Rafael Acosta, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS

Sam Brody, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, CLAS

Tim Hossler, Associate Professor, Design, Architecture & Design

Continuing Faculty Senate Members

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Professor, Mathematics, CLAS

Brendan Mattingly, Program Director, Professional Studies

Janelle Ruisinger, Clinical Professor, Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacy

Joe Walden, Associate Teaching Professor, Business

Kristi Neufeld, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, CLAS

Lorin Maletsky, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering

Marike Janzen, Associate Professor, Slavic, German, & Eurasian Studies, CLAS

Mat Johnson, Professor & Interim Chair, Mathematics, CLAS

Matt Jacobson, Professor, Film & Media Studies, Arts, CLAS

Mugur Geana, Director & Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communications

Samantha Simmons, Assistant Librarian, Humanities, Libraries

Stacey Vanderhurst, Associate Professor, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, CLAS

Katie Batza, Associate Professor/Chair, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, CLAS

Masoud Darabi, Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, School of Engineering

Jennifer Delgado, Associate Teaching Professor, Physics & Astronomy, CLAS

Poppy DeltaDawn, Assistant Professor, Visual Art, CLAS

Misty Heggeness, Associate Professor, Public Affairs & Administration, CLAS

Jason Matejkowski, Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare

Megan Sheldon, Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS

Larry Morriss, Professor of the Practice, School of Business

Frank Weinhold, Clinical Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice