2024-2025 Faculty Senate Committees

Advisory Committee for Scholarship and Research (joint)

  • Chair: Sangwon Yoon, provost's designee
  • Serdar Atav, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Christopher Bishop, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Sungdai Cho, Asian and Asian American Studies
  • Mary Beth Curtin, Associate Vice President for Research (non-voting)
  • Daniel Davis, Music, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Nicole Fenty, CCPA Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
  • Eric Hoffman, Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Murali Jagannathan, Associate Dean for Research, School of Management
  • Carl Lipo, Associate Dean for Research, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
  • Kristina Marty, Associate Dean for Research, CCPA
  • Melissa Morales, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Mark Poliks, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Xingye Qiao, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Gail Rattinger, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Meera Sampath, Assoc Dean for Research, Watson College 
  • Sumantra Sarkar, School of Management
  • Pam Stewart Fahs, Associate Dean for Research, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Kaiming Ye, Biomedical Engineering

Budget Review Committee

  • Chair: Barry Jones, Economics
  • Aaron Beedle, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chair of Faculty Senate
  • Michael Buck, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • John Cordi, CFO, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Komla Dzigbede, CCPA Public Administration
  • Laura Fine Hawkes, Chair of Faculty Senate Executive Committee
  • Matthew Gallagher, Libraries
  • Donald Hall, president's designee, ex-officio
  • Bryan Kirschen, Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Jon Krasno, additional member
  • Patrick Madden, Computer Science
  • Debi P. Mishra, School of Management
  • Steven Murphy, Chemistry
  • H.R. (Dick) Naslund, Department of Earth Sciences
  • Gail Rattinger, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Olga Shvetsova, Political Science
  • Caitlin McMahon, undergraduate student
  • Mert Karaca, graduate student

Bylaws Review Committee

  • Chair: Olga Shvetsova, Political Science
  • Aaron Beedle, past vice-chair of Faculty Senate
  • Jeremy Dibbell, Libraries
  • Sean Dunwoody, History
  • Jonathan Krasno, past vice-chair of Faculty Senate
  • Alistair Lees, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Stephen Levy, Physics
  • Pamela Mischen, Faculty Advisor, president's designee, ex-officio 
  • Sarah Spinler, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Committee for the University Environment (joint)

  • Co-chair: George Homsy, CCPA Public Administration
  • Co-chair: Kim Jaussi, School of Management
  • Russell Althouse, PSS representative, ex-officio
  • Nick Corcoran, Landscape Architect, Facilities Management, ex-officio
  • Emily Creo, Libraries
  • Ann Fronczek, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Dylan Horvath, Steward of the Nature Preserve
  • Tanya Husick, Executive Director of TAPS, ex-officio
  • Carl Lipo, Anthropology
  • Colin Lyons, Art and Design
  • Jesenko Muftic, Physical Plant representative, ex-officio
  • JoAnn Navarro, Vice President for Operations, ex-officio
  • James Pitarresi, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Jonathan Reynolds, Facilities Management, ex-officio
  • Ryan Roosa, Residential Life representative, ex-officio
  • Julian Shepherd, Biological Sciences 
  • Atticus Fauci, undergraduate student
  • Batia Rabin, undergraduate student
  • Aidan Moran, graduate student

Committee on Committees

  • Chair: Neyda Gilman, Libraries
  • Ruth Carpenter, Libraries
  • Sungdai Cho, Asian and Asian American Studies
  • Ann Fronczek, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Les Lander, Computer Science
  • Sabina Perrino, Anthropology

Convocations Committee

  • Co-chair: Elise Ferer, Libraries
  • Co-chair: Jennifer Keegin, executive secretary
  • Sharon, Bryant, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Rosa Darling, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Donald Loewen, provost's designee, ex-officio 
  • Brian Rose, president's designee, ex-officio 
  • Caitlin McMahon, undergraduate student
  • Kweku Ashon, undergraduate student
  • Gavriel Yaghoubian, undergraduate student
  • Jerome Nenger, graduate student

Diversity Committee

  • Chair: Claudia Marques, Biological Sciences
  • Tracy Brooks, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Rosemary Collier, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Meghan Lenahan, Libraries
  • Ann Merriweather, Psychology
  • Joshua Reno, Anthropology
  • Jennifer Stoever, English
  • Krizia Yao, undergraduate student
  • Haley Thayer, graduate student
  • Yongabi Ngoh, PSS representative

Educational Opportunity Program Advisory Committee

  • Chair: Nicole Rouhana, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Justin Brymn, provost's designee, ex-officio 
  • Mariah Bubel, Director of Recruitment for Undergraduate Students
  • Dave Clark, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies 
  • Kelley Cook, CCPA Social Work
  • Robyn Cope, Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Karima Legette, Director of EOP
  • Jillian Sandy, Libraries
  • Nicole Sirju-Johnson, president's designee, ex-officio 
  • Lisa Tessman, Philosophy
  • Sara Wozniak, Decker College of Nursing and Health Services, ex-officio
  • Krizia Yao, undergraduate student
  • Cheng Chang, graduate student
  • Ebony Dixon, EOP student
  • Donnasis George, EOP student
  • Esmen George, EOP student

Evaluation Coordinating Committee

  • Chair: Leon Cosler, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Guy German, Biomedical Engineering
  • Brendan Hennessey, Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Norah Henry, Geography
  • Murali Jagannathan, School of Management
  • Laura Lipke, Libraries
  • Candace Mulcahy, CCPA/TLEL
  • Steven Murphy, Chemistry
  • Gurpreet Singh, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Information & Educational Technology Committee (joint)

  • Co-chair: Kenneth Chiu, Computer Science
  • Co-chair: James Pitarresi, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Niyazi Bodur, Chief Information Officer
  • Donald Hall, Provost
  • Yvonne Johnston, Decker College of Nursing & Health Sciences
  • Dikran Karaguezian, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Tongshu Ma, School of Management
  • Pamela Mischen, provost's designee, ex-officio 
  • Hiroki Sayama, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
  • David Schuster, Libraries
  • Christopher Swift, Art & Design
  • Andrew Tucci, Director of Educational Communications Center, ex-officio
  • Susrutha Dhanaraj, undergraduate student
  • Sarah Wexler, graduate student

Intercollegiate Athletics Committee

  • Chair: Loretta Mason-Williams, CCPA Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
  • David Eagan, Associate Director of Athletics, ex-officio
  • Darcy Fauci, Chair of Intercollegiate Athletics Board, ex-officio 
  • Randy Friedman, Judaic Studies
  • Dennis Kalina, Deputy Director of Athletics
  • Donald Loewen, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Nadine Mastroleo, NCAA Faculty representative, ex-officio
  • Neil Christian Pages, German & Russian Studies
  • Tom St. John, Student Affairs representative 
  • David Werner, Psychology
  • Vacant, male undergraduate student
  • Stephanie Gatto, female undergraduate student
  • Monica Liu, graduate teaching assistant

ITS Research Computing Advisory Committee (joint)

  • Co-chair: Niyazi Bodur, Chief Information Officer
  • Co-chair: Kenneth Chiu, Computer Science
  • Yu Chen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Sungdai Cho, Asian and Asian American Studies
  • Tim Cortesi, provost's designee, ex-officio 
  • Yetrib Hathout, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Chang Hee Park, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • David Schuster, Libraries
  • Bradley Skopyk, History
  • Nicholas Walling, ITS, ex-officio 
  • Daksh Mehta, undergraduate student
  • Raja Mohan Koushik Dontikurthi, graduate student

Library Committee

  • Chair:  Erin Rushton, Libraries
  • Rosa Darling, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Andrea Falcone, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Nicholas Kaldis, Asian and Asian American Studies
  • Jonathan Karp, Judaic Studies
  • Hyejung Kim, CCPA Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
  • Pamela Mischen, president's designee, ex-officio
  • Joshua Reno, Anthropology
  • Harald Zils, German and Russian Studies
  • Alberto Farfan, undergraduate student
  • Joshua Friedberg, undergraduate student
  • Emmanuel Asante, graduate student

Micro-credential Committee (joint)

  • Co-chair: Shanise Kent, Director of Workforce Development
  • Co-chair: Sangwon Yoon, System Science and Industrial Engineering
  • Subimal Chatterjee, School of Management, provost's designee, ex-officio 
  • Erin Cody, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Scott Craver, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Andreas Pape, Economics
  • Xingye Qiao, Mathematics and Statistics, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Amber Simpson, CCPA, TLEL
  • Michael Testani, Watson Continuing Education, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Laura Warren Hill, CCPA, Human Development

Professional Standards Committee

  • Chair: Robert Guay, Philosophy
  • Tracy Brooks, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Hoe Kyeung Kim, CCPA Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
  • Sarah Maximiek, Libraries
  • Melissa Zinkin, Philosophy

Program Review Committee

  • Chair: Scott Craver, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Nathanael Andrade, History
  • Christopher Bartlette, Music
  • Terry Deak, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Donald Hall, president's designee, ex-officio
  • Donald Loewen, German and Russian, ex-officio
  • Loretta Mason-Williams, CCPA Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
  • Sarah Maximiek, Libraries
  • Jeffrey Pietras, Department of Earth Sciences
  • Nicole Rouhana, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Kristian Rydqvist, School of Management
  • Sarah Spinler, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • John Starks, faculty director of the Office of University-Wide Courses, ex-officio
  • Barbara Wolfe, Theatre
  • Noah Sylvester, undergraduate student
  • Rachel Law, undergraduate student
  • Emma Jarman, graduate student
  • Emily de la Vega, graduate student

University Calendar Committee (joint)

  • Chair: Donald Hall, Provost
  • David Campbell, CCPA Public Administration
  • David Eagen, Athletics, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Michael Kukawa, Facilities Management, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • BrieAnna Langlie, Anthropology
  • Donald Loewen, Provost's Office
  • Colin Lyons, Art and Design
  • Krista Medionte-Phillips, Undergraduate Admissions, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Paola Mignone, Residential Life, provost's designee, ex-officio
  • Carol Miles, Biological Sciences
  • Michelle Ponczek, Course Building/Academic Space, provost's designee, ex- officio
  • Judith Quaranta, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Sarah Spinler, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Amber Stallman, Financial Aid and Student Records, provost's designee, ex- officio
  • Barbara Wolfe, Theatre
  • Batia Rabin, undergraduate student
  • Sarah Crawford, graduate student

University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

  • Chair: Les Lander, Computer Science
  • Megan Benson, Libraries
  • Alexander Borisov, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Alex Chase-Levenson, History
  • Dave Clark, Harpur Dean's office, ex-officio
  • Danielle Dunne, School of Management
  • Deborah Elliston, Anthropology
  • Lisa Hrehor, Health and Wellness (non-voting)
  • Donald Loewen, provost's designee, ex-officio 
  • Miesha Marzell, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Pamela Mischen, president's designee, ex-officio 
  • Vacant, Philosophy
  • Marguerite Wilson, CCPA Human Development
  • Rachel Law, undergraduate student
  • Yakubu Alhassan Zakaria, graduate student (TA)