Faculty Senate

2024–25 Faculty Senate Chair message

Welcome to the Faculty Senate webpage.  I am honored to serve as your Chair for the 2024-’25 academic year.  I have big shoes to fill given the long line of strong Senate leadership we’ve had.

My focus this year will be to serve you. I hope to be your voice to the Administration and to the community. This can only happen if we have the engagement of all the faculty and the willingness to communicate with one another.  I can only advocate for the things I am aware of.  I encourage you to contact me and make your comments, concerns, appreciations, and celebrations known.  We need you to get involved.

The year promises to be full of the exciting, the frustrating, and the unexpected, as most are, but particularly this year as we welcome a new University President and deal with the consequences of the recent University realignment.  Much of the early work of the Senate will be to determine how the faculty should be represented within the Senate, now that we have a mix of Departments and Schools. Please be involved and make your voice heard.

I have heard many concerns about the state of shared governance on our campus.  The Faculty Senate Executive Committee is committed to having a larger voice in the decision making, and even the idea forming processes on campus. Those conversations have been ongoing for the last few years and, generally, there are more opportunities for our voices to be heard.  We will continue to do our best to nudge our way into more.

Thank you for this opportunity.  I will serve you to the best of my ability but need you to make me aware of your concerns.  Let’s have coffee, lunch, a meeting, take a walk, so I can better understand how to help.

Most Sincerely,

Scott

Faculty Senate Executive Committee

2024–2025

Chair – Scott Zimmerman
Chair-Elect – Mike Foster
Secretary of the Faculty – Kim Finch
Parliamentarian – Michael Hudson
Past Chair – Elizabeth Walker

Faculty Senate Office

Sandra Johnson, CAP
Administrative Specialist III
Office: LIB 201D
Phone: 836-5257