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Faculty Senate Standing Committees

2012-2013

Officers and Executive Committee

Rebekah Smith * Chair
Vacant Past Faculty Senate Chair
Robert Hard * Vice Chair
Kim Bilica * Chair, Graduate Council
Misty Sailors * Secretary of the General Faculty
Johnelle Sparks * Secretary
Jim Dykes * Parliamentarian
Mark Blizard * College of Architecture
Glenn Dietrich * College of Business
Donovan Fogt * College of Education and Human Development
Drew Johnson * College of Engineering
Richard Lewis * College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Johnelle Sparks * College of Public Policy
Fengxin Chen * College of Sciences
Bennie Wilson * NTT Member

Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee

Mark Leung COB 8/31/2013
Michael Miller COLFA 8/31/2013
Brent Nowak COE 8/31/2013
James Powell COS 8/31/2013
Chris Reddick COPP 8/31/2013
William Short COLFA 8/31/2013
Stephen Temple COA 8/31/2013
Rebecca Weston COLFA 8/31/2013
Johnelle Sparks * Chair COPP 8/31/2014
Rajesh Bhargave * COB 8/31/2014
Maria Arreguin-Anderson * COEHD 8/31/2015
Elizabeth Murakami * COEHD 8/31/2015

Academic Policy and Requirements Committee

Andrey Chabanov COS 8/31/2013
Sandy Norman COS 8/31/2013
Anuradha Roy COB 8/31/2013
Patricia A. Thompson COS 8/31/2014
Patricia McGee, Co-chair COEHD 8/31/2014
Saadet Beeson COA 8/31/2014
Juliet Langman * COEHD 8/31/2014
Byongook Moon * Co-chair COPP 8/31/2014
Liang Tang COE 8/31/2015
Libby Rowe * COLFA 8/31/2015
Patricia L. Thompson * COLFA 8/31/2015

Budget Committee

Thomas Coyle COLFA 8/31/2013
Kirsten Gardner COLFA 8/31/2013
Robert Hard * COLFA 8/31/2013
John Zhang, Co-chair COEHD 8/31/2013
Corey Sparks COPP 8/31/2014
Frank Chen * COE 8/31/2014
Marcelo Marucho * COS 8/31/2015
Martha Fasci * Co-chair COB 8/31/2015
Heather Trepal * COEHD 8/31/2015

Committee on Handbook of Operating Procedures

Manuel Berriozabal COS 8/31/2013
Juanita Firestone COPP 8/31/2013
Melvin Laracey * COLFA 8/31/2013
Michael Miller COLFA 8/31/2013
Donovan Fogt * Chair COEHD 8/31/2014
Sandy Norman COS 8/31/2014
Suat Gunhan COA 8/31/2014
Juan Gonzales COB 8/31/2014
Anand Ramasubramanian * COE 8/31/2014
Robert Hard * Faculty Senate Vice Chair Ex Officio

Evaluations, Merit, Rewards, and Workload Committee

Thomas Coyle COLFA 8/31/2013
Mark Leung COB 8/31/2013
Chris Reddick COPP 8/31/2013
Anuradha Roy COB 8/31/2013
Stephen Temple COA 8/31/2013
Judy Haschenburger * COS 8/31/2014
Joycelyn Moody * COLFA 8/31/2014
Richard Harris * Chair COPP 8/31/2014
Alycia Maurer * COEHD 8/31/2014
Dan Sass * COEHD 8/31/2014
Emilio Mendoza * COE 8/31/2014
Sedef Doganer COA 8/31/2015

Nominating, Elections, and Procedures Committee

Diane Abdo * Freshman Initiative 8/31/2013
Juliet Langman * Chair COEHD 8/31/2013
Xochitl Lopez-Lozano COS 8/31/2013
Rebecca Weston COLFA 8/31/2013
Juana Salazar * COA 8/31/2014
Sos Agaian COE 8/31/2014
Anne Hardgrove * COLFA 8/31/2014
Natasha Burns * COB 8/31/2015
Robert Ambrosino * COPP 8/31/2015
Johnelle Sparks * Faculty Senate Secretary Ex Officio

Faculty Senate Research Committee (FSRC)

Frank Chen * Department of Mechanical Engineering, COE
Ray Garza Department of Psychology, COLFA
Richard Lewis * Department of Sociology, COLFA
John Merrifield * Chair Department of Economics, COB
Misty Sailors * Department of Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching, COEHD
Mike Tapia Department of Criminal Justice, COPP
Qi Tian Department of Computer Science, COS
Raydel Tullous Department of Management Science & Statistics, COB
Donald Kurtz * Department of Chemistry, COS
Woodie Spivey * Department of Entrepreneurship and Technology Management, COB

University Curriculum Committee

Raydel Tullous COB 8/31/2013
Carol Dyas COS 8/31/2013
Jerry Goldstein COS 8/31/2013
Anand Ramasubramanian * COE 8/31/2013
Daniel Sass * COEHD 8/31/2013
William Short COLFA 8/31/2013
Alistair Welchman * COLFA 8/31/2013
Renee Cowan * COLFA 8/31/2014
Karen Williams COB 8/31/2014
Richard Utecht COB 8/31/2014
Jerome Keating * Chair COB 8/31/2014
Branco Ponomariov * COPP 8/31/2014

Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committees

Committee on Course Surveys

Exp. 9/1/2013
Tom Coyle Department of Psychology, COLFA
Raydel Tullous Department of Management Sciences and Statistics, COB
Diane Abdo * Freshman Initiative
David Pillow Department of Psychology, COLFA
Richard Harris Department of Social Work, COPP
Dan Sass * Chair Department of Educational Psychology, COEHD
Ram Tripathi Department of Management Sciences and Statistics, COB
Patricia McGee Department of Educational Psychology, COEHD
Anne Hardgrove * Department of History, COLFA
David Akopian * Department of Electrical Engineering, COE
Lydia Martinez Rivera * Department of Chemistry, COS
Christine Linial * Department of Music, COLFA

Committee on Peer Observation of Teaching

Exp. 9/1/2013
Donovan Fogt * Chair of FS HOP Committee
Richard Lewis * FS Executive Committee
Mary McNaughton-Cassill Co-Chair of Instructional Advisory Board of the UTSA Distinguished Teaching Academy
Misty Sailors * Secretary of the General Faculty
Dan Sass * Chair of FS Committee on Course Surveys
Johnelle Sparks * Chair of FS Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
  * = Faculty Senate Member