Updated: September 5, 2025

Officers

Chair
David Latzko

Chair-elect
Jessica Petko

Secretary
Emily Blanke

University Senator
Bob Bartell
Joan Smeltzer 
Andrea Giorgioni (Alternate)

Ombudsman
Maureen Muller-Kahle

Academic and Student Issues (ASIC)

  • Co-chairs: David Latzko and Javed Siddique
  • Joel Burkholder
  • Jim Crivaro
  • Andrea Giorgioni
  • Megan Lorenz
  • Jon Price
  • Anne Vardo-Zalik
  • Andy Landis (chair of Awards sub-committee)
  • Joy Giguere (chair of Honors sub-committee)
  • Andrew Caldwell (DACD, ex-officio)
  • Tom Reinsfelder (Head Librarian, ex-officio)
  • Robert Farrell (DAA, ex-officio)
  • Scott Simonds (DSES, ex-officio)
  • Joel Gugino (DNSC, ex-officio)
  • Student member (TBD)

Subcommittees of Academic and Student Issues

Honors

  • Chair: Joy Giguere
  • Andy Landis
  • Amber Majeske
  • Joseph Royer
  • Neda Bazyar Shourabi
  • Student member (TBD) 

Student Awards

  • Chair: Andy Landis
  • Jeff Gerstein
  • Maureen Muller-Kahle
  • Javed Siddique
  • Scott Simonds 

Burness Teaching Award

  • Chair: Noel Sloboda (recipient 2022-23)
  • Joan Smeltzer (recipient 2021-22)
  • Sonia Molloy (recipient 2019-20)
  • Sara Shaw (recipient 2022-23; part-time)
  • Mark Williams (recipient 2023-24; part-time)
  • Robert Farrell (ex-officio) 

Academic Advising Council

  • Chair: Stephen Foster (recipient 2021-22)
  • Anne Vardo-Zalik (recipient 2022-23)
  • Amber Majeske (recipient 2023-24)
  • Megan Lorenz (recipient 2024-25)
  • Andrew Caldwell (ex-officio)
  • Robert Farrell (ex-officio)
  • Jon Price (ex-officio)
  • Two student members (TBD by SGA) 

Curricular Affairs

  • Co-chairs: Joe Royer and Joe Downing
  • Jim Crivaro
  • Maureen Muller-Kahle
  • Patrick Hein
  • Abdul Siddiqui
  • Robert Farrell (ex officio) 

Faculty Affairs

  • Co-chairs: Joan Smeltzer
  • Bob Bartell
  • Ali Kara
  • Stephen Lentz (adjunct rep.)
  • Abdul Siddiqui
  • Noel Sloboda
  • Jessica Petko
  • William Cantor 

Subcommittee of Faculty Affairs

Faculty Scholarship of Research and Creative Accomplishment Committee

  • Amber Majeske (recipient 2021-22)
  • Sonia Molloy (recipient 2023-24)
  • Jessica Petko (Senate Chair-elect)
  • Faculty member(s) to be appointed by Chancellor and Director of Academic Affairs (TBD) 

Teaching, Learning Technology Advisory Committee

  • Co-Chairs: Harley Hartmann
  • Stephen Foster
  • Manel Wijesinha
  • Emily Blanke  
  • Amber Majeske
  • Soroush Khosravi Dehaghi
  • Elizabeth Huck
  • Jon Price (ex offico)
  • Loren Brewster (ex officio)
  • Robert Farrell (ex officio)
  • Student member (TBD) 

Special Committees

Professor Promotion Committee (2025-26)

  • Chair: Mark Casteel

University College Faculty Council

  • Councilor: Stephen Foster (2022-26)
  • Councilor: Jessica Petko (2024-28)
  • Alternate: tbd 

Faculty Representatives to Enrollment Management Team

  • Ali Kara
  • Jon Price

Faculty Representative to Student Activity Fee Committee

  • Jessica Petko

Exit Interview Person for Faculty

  • Bob Bartell

Academic Unit Heads

Arts and Liberal Studies

  • Unit Head: Joy Giguere
  • Representative: Kristine Parkes

Social/Behavioral Sciences and Information Sciences and Technology

  • Unit Head: Stephen Foster
  • Representative: Sukhdeep Gill

Natural And Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

  • Unit Head: Emily Blanke
  • Representative: Javed Siddique