Name, first year at UIS, rank and Title, Department and College
Ranjan Karri, (at UIS since 2006), Associate Professor of Management, College of Business and Management.
Department, College, and Campus Senate, Senate Committee Service
Department level:
2016- Present: Chair, department of Management.
Department personnel committee; Led curricular initiatives such as a Minor in Management, Graduate certificate in Entrepreneurship, Health Care Management
College level:Served on the Faculty Development committee, Interim Director of the MBA program (2011-2015), Served on several faculty search committees.
Campus Senate:
2016- present – Chair, Campus Senate, USC member (member of University Statutes committee)
2012 – present - Senator
Senate Committee Service:
2012 – present - Graduate Council (chaired in 2014)
2009-2010 - Library Committee: I served as the chair of the library committee and also the chair of the committee formed to evaluate the dean of LIS. In this capacity, I devoted a lot of time along with committee members in implementing and analyzing the result of a survey to evaluate the dean.
OTHER UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2013: Served as Chair of the search committee for Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Education.
2009-2010 Academic Integrity Council: This is a new senate committee to develop policy for implementing academic integrity policies on campus.
2006 – 2015 University Scholar committee: I participated in evaluating nominees (8 faculty) for the University scholar committee and selecting the University scholar.
2009-2010 Campus promotions committee: To evaluate applications for promotion to Full professor. Chaired this committee in 2010.
2010-2016: Faculty Grievance Hearing Panel – Member.
Candidate Statement:
I am a student of policy (business primarily) and I have expertise in organizational strategy and governance. I have been an active member of the senate since 2012. Since 2016, I am serving as senate chair and in this position I have committed to be an active voice of faculty, students and academic professionals in shaping policies to enact the university mission. I believe it is important to strengthen the governance at UIS so it can live up to its “shared” promise at all levels in the university. This requires a perspective that recognizes the interests of various constituents that collaborate and compete at the same time with a passion towards shared governance. As senate chair along with the senate executive committee, I believe I was deliberate and purposeful in articulating issues with policy implications that demand the time and attention of senators while resisting impulsive calls to action by any single constituency of UIS.