Faculty Senate
Purpose: Actions, as perfected and passed by the Faculty Senate, represent the collective reasoning of the Faculty through its governance process as to policies and procedures to be followed by the University and are communicated to the University Administration for approval and implementation.
Resolutions passed by the Faculty Senate state the collective reasoning of the Faculty Senate on specific issues and shall be forwarded for information to the appropriate Administrators.
Membership: There are two classes of membership in the Faculty Senate: voting members (designated as senators) and non-voting members (designated as delegates). The voting membership of the Faculty Senate shall consist of the following senators: the Chair of the Senate; the Chair-Elect of the Senate; the Secretary of the Faculty; representatives of academic departments, one senator from each academic department; one representative from the instructors; one from clinical faculty; and representatives of the ranked faculty, one senator from each rank: (a) assistant professor, (b) associate professor, (c) full or distinguished professor. Eligible department representatives include all ranked faculty, as well as those instructors and clinical faculty who have served no less than two consecutive academic years at Missouri State University by the September session of their term. Ranked faculty refers to tenure-track/tenured Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor or Distinguished Professor. Those who hold administrative appointments at or above head level of academic department are not eligible to serve as senators. Exception to this rule: if an academic department/school has three or fewer eligible representatives, then the head may serve as senator.
2024–2025 Faculty Senate Roster
Officers:
Chair: Scott Zimmerman, 2025
Chair-Elect: Mike Foster, 2025
Secretary: Kim Finch, 2025
Parliamentarian
Michael Hudson, 2025
Rank and Lecture Senators
Tracy Stout, LS (Professor), 2026
Shurita Thomas-Tate (Associate Professor), 2025
Stacy Goddard, KN (Assistant Professor), 2026
Luis Lombilla, LC (Senior Instructor), 2026
Keely Scott, EN (Instructor), 2026
Sarah Jones, CD (Clinical Faculty), 2026
Non-Voting Delegates:
TBA (SGA rep), 2025
TBA (GSS rep), 2025
TBA (Staff Delegate), 2025
William H. Darr College of Agriculture
AS Adam McGee, 2025
HL Albert Barreda, 2025
Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
AR Fatih Benzer, 2025
CMJ Leonard Horton, (rplc Holly Holladay), 2025
CJ Bill Sandel, 2025
DS John Rose, 2025
EN Matthew Calihman, 2025
HI, Stephen McIntyre, 2026
WL, Heidi Backes, 2025
MU, Perry Mears, 2026
PS, Gabriel Ondetti, 2026
PH, Ralph Shain, 2025
SA, Abby Templer Rodrigues, 2025
TD, Michelle Harvey, 2026
College of Business
AC Carl Keller, 2026
FR Megan Ramsey, 2025
MF Jenifer Roberts, 2025
IT Andrew Albritton (rplc Jennifer Lowenthal-Hershey), 2025
MG Kate Haring (rplc Andrew Albritton), 2025
MK Carly Pierson, 2026
TM Aaron Sauer, 2025
College of Education
GL Melinda Hammerschmidt, 2026
EF M. Hassan Raza, 2025
RF Sarah Nixon, 2025
SP James Sottile, 2026
McQueary College of Health and Human Services
AN James Keaton, 2025
BS Randi Ulbricht, 2026
CD Bonnie Slavych, 2025
KN Rebecca Woodard, 2026
NR Debbie Horine, 2026
OT Jennifer Yates, 2026
PN Shannon Hauschildt (rplc Andrea Applegate), 2025
PT Andy Ward, 2026
PY Brooke Whisenhunt, 2025
SM Allan Liggett, 2025
SW Tiffany Havlin (rplc Susan Dollar), 2025
College of Natural and Applied Sciences
BI Jay McEntee, 2025
CH Cyren Rico, 2026
CS Razib Iqbal, 2026
EE Damon Bassett, 2026
MA Richard Belshoff, 2025
PA Mike Reed (rplc Saibal Mitra), 2025
Library
LI Jessica Bennett, 2025
Updated September 13, 2024