New Mexico Tech

New Mexico Tech

Faculty Senate Officers and Standing Committees

2013 - 2014 Academic Year

Chair: Richard Sonnenfeld

Vice-Chair:Fred Phillips

Parliamentarian: David Burleigh

Members who remain on a committee for a second year should meet to designate a chair, and forward the names of all chairs to the Office for Academic Affairs for posting on its web site.

Committees:

Academic Standards and Admissions Committee (2-year term with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Mike Pullin, Andrei Zagrai*

2013-2015 Jeff Altig, BillChávez, Mike Riley

Ex-Officio Members: Registrar, Director of Admission, Director of Advising Resource Center, Director of Financial Aid

Student Discipline Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation)

2012-2014 Doug Dunston, Michelle Creech-Eakman

2013-2015 Ivan Avramidi, Anders Jorgensen, Alexander Prusin

Ex-Officio Members: Student Representative

Honorary Degrees & Awards Committee (2-year term, with a 1/2 rotation):

2012-2014 Michaelann Tartis, Julianne Newmark

2013-2015Mike Heagy

Nominating Committee (2-year term, with a 2/2 rotation):

2012-2014 Barbara Bonnekessen, Mark Samuels*

2013-2015 Navid Mojtabai, Snezna Rogelj

Computing on Campus (2-year term, with a 3/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Rosário Durão, Tie Wei, Raul Morales-Juberias

2013-2015Mehrdad Razavi,Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zun Zheng

Ex-Officio Members: Director of Academic Computing, Library Director, Dean of Students,

Undergraduate Student Representative and Graduate Student Representative

ADA (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Dave Westpfahl,Dongwan Shin, Seokbin Lim

2013-2015 Maggie Griffin, Mark Samuels

Ex-Officio Members: Director Counseling and Disability Services, Director Affirmative Action

Assessment Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Sally Pias, Steve Schaffer

2013-2015 Annette LaRussa, Mike Riley, Scott Teare

Ex-Officio Members: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Director of the Advising

ResourceCenter, the Director of Admission, the Registrar (who is also the Higher Ed Coordinator) and a Student Representative

Retention Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Sally Pias, Steve Schaffer

2013-2015 Brian Borchers, David Burleigh, Chelsey Hargather

Ex-Officio Members: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Director of the Advising

ResourceCenter, the Director of Admission, the Registrar (who is also the Higher Ed Coordinator) and a Student Representative

Distance Education Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Steve Simpson,Lisa Beinhoff

2013-2015 Yongtao Dong, Elizabeth Kramer-Simpson, Rebecca Reiss

Ex-Officio Members: Director of Education Outreach and Distance Instruction/Distance Education,

Registrar, Director of Information Services, and Director of Academic Computing

Ombudspersons (2-year term, one representative from faculty, one from staff):

2013-2015 Dave Johnson, Pete Martinez

Academic Freedom & Tenure (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014Barbara Bonnekessen, Richard Sonnenfeld

2013-2015Robert Cormack, Mike Heagy, Tom Kieft

Budget & Research Committee (3-year term, with a 2/2/2 rotation):

2011-2014Ken Minschwaner, John Starrett, Richard Sonnenfeld

2012-2015Barbara Bonnekessen, Fred Phillips

2013-2016 Ashok Ghosh

Space Utilization (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Paul Arendt, Michael Hargather, Oleg Makhnin

2013-2015 Barbara Bonnekessen, Anders Jorgensen

Ex-Officio Members: Director of Facilities Planning, Registrar, Student Representative

Sabbatical (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Julie Ford*, Alexander Prusin, Mark Samuels

2013-2015 Frank Huang, Jamie Kimberley

Faculty Development Committee(2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Annette LaRussa, Sharon Sessions, Michaelann Tartis

2013-2015 Bill Stone, Claudia Wilson

Ex-Officio Member: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Benefits Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2012-2014 Bruce Harrison*, Ann Hewitt

2013-2015Rakhim Aitbayev, Brian Borchers, Sharon Sessions