Faculty Senate Committees

CHARGE: To advise and coordinate efforts between the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management (VPEM) and the Faculty Senate. The committee will collaborate on developing, in conjunction with the VPEM, annual strategies that connect faculty with recruitment and retention initiatives. The committee shall meet at least once per semester to discuss and plan annual EM/faculty collaborations and initiatives in support of enhancing recruitment and retention efforts. The committee shall create templates of events, initiatives, and messages that faculty can readily implement in their programs and disciplines. (New charge approved by an online vote of Faculty Senate, May 5, 2022.)
MEMBERSHIP: Elected faculty representatives: The committee shall include: two faculty members representing each of the four colleges and one member from the library, for a total of nine members. In addition, each elected faculty representative shall have an alternate. The faculty representatives and alternates shall be elected from the unit they represent. Both professorial staff and lecturers can serve on the committee. The election shall follow the Procedures for Electing Members of Faculty Senate Committees. The term of service of elected members shall be three years and shall start on September 1 and finish on August 31. The terms should be stacked. One elected member shall be appointed by the committee to serve as a liaison to the Faculty Senate (1-year term).
Ex-officio representatives: Representative(s) appointed by the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management (VPEM). One designated VPEM representative shall serve as the committee convener. The VPEM convener and the FS liaison shall submit an annual report to the Faculty Senate by May 1 of each year.( New membership approved by an online vote of Faculty Senate, May 5, 2022.)

Committee Members: (to be elected August-September 2022)

• CASL: John Abramyan (to August 31, 2024)
• CASL: Natalia Czap (to August 31, 2025)
• CECS: Hafiz Malik (to August 31, 2025)
• CECS: Shengquan Wang (to August 31, 2024)
• CEHHS: Linda Sorensen (to August 31, 2025)
• CEHHS: TBD 
• COB: Jun He (to August 31, 2024) 
• COB: Crystal J. Scott (to August 31, 2025) 
• LIB: Natalie Hagopian (to August 31, 2025)

For faculty grievance procedure, please consult the Faculty Grievance Procedure document (amended 2023).

Faculty Grievance Panel Membership:

Section 5.02 of the Faculty Grievance Procedure (2023)

“ … The FGP shall consist of tenured faculty members and Senate-eligible librarians appointed by the Faculty Senate Council in September. Membership on the FGP shall be allotted as follows: the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters shall have three members; the College of Engineering and Computer Science, College of Business, College of Education Health and Human Services and the library shall each have two members. FGP members shall serve single staggered terms of two years. Members shall be chosen by lot from the tenured faculty of each academic unit and from Senate-eligible librarians. Vacancies will be filled in the same manner except that if the unexpired term is one year or less, the replacement member shall serve an additional two-year term. Faculty members may decline selection if they have served in the prior term.”

• Arlo Clark-Foos, CASL (term expires 12/31/2024)
• Tim Kiska, CASL (term expires 12/31/2024)
• Nadja Rottner, CASL (term expires 12/31/2025)
• Jinhua Guo, CECS  (term expires 12/31/2024)
• Adnan Shaout, CECS  (term expires 12/31/2025)
• Mesut Duran, CEHHS (term expires 12/31/2024)
• LaShorage Shaffer, CEHHS (term expires 12/31/2025)
• Hei-Wai Lee, COB (term expires 12/31/2024)
• Karen Strandholm, COB (term expires 12/31/2025)
• Amy E Pell Seipke, LIB (term expires 12/31/2025)
• Joel Seewald, LIB (term expires 12/31/2024)

The First Year Experience Committee, a standing committee of the Faculty Senate, guides the development and implementation of a coherent, innovative, and high quality first-year program involving collaboration between Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, and the rest of the campus. The committee: (a) fosters collaboration and integration between Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, and Student Life to develop first-year experience programming along with better aligning existing programs to meet the needs of students; (b)  collects and analyzes relevant data and information related to first-year programming; and (c) promotes the awareness of first-year programming to the campus. Thirteen members: eight from Academic Affairs (at least one from each college, and two of whom shall be faculty members from the Composition & Rhetoric and Mathematics disciplines); four from Enrollment Management and Student Life; and one from the Student Government. Members serve staggered three-year terms and the Faculty Senate Council makes faculty appointments.  Two faculty co-chairs lead the committee.

Members:

• Co-chair: Kristin Poling, Academic Affairs: CASL History (Term expires 08/31/2025)
• Co-chair: Mike MacDonald, Academic Affairs: CASL Composition & Rhetoric (Term expires 08/31/2025)
• Anne Dempsey, Academic Affairs: Student Engagement Librarian, Mardigian Library (Term expires 08/31/2025)
• Tian An Wong, Academic Affairs: CASL Mathematics (Term expires 08/31/2026)
• Natalie Sampson, Academic Affairs: CEHHS (Term expires 08/31/2026)
• Jennifer Coon, Academic Affairs: COB (Term expires 08/31/2026)
• Nicholas Iannarino, Academic Affairs, CASL-Communication (Term expires 08/31/2026)
• Lynda Dioszegi, Student Affairs, Senior Advisor, START, ex officio
• Amy Finley, Student Affairs: Dean of Students, ex officio
• Jennifer Kowalczyk, Coordinator Campus-wide & Family Programs, Student Life, ex officio
• Kevin Lewtschanyn, Student Affairs: Enrollment Management, ex officio

Annual Reports: 2021-2022, 2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-2019

Community Read Selections

The UM-Dearborn Community Read is a campus initiative to instill a joy of learning, critical thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement within our community by coming together through a common campus read, accompanied by related events on and off campus. The 2024-2025 Community Read is Verified: How to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg. Prior Community Reads were:

• 2023-2024: Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell, eds.  Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
• 2022-2023: Ayana E. Johnson & Katharine Wilkerson, eds. All We Can Save
• 2021-2022: William D. Lopez, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
• 2020-2021: Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
• 2019-2020: Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

CHARGE: There shall be a permanent standing Promotion and Tenure Committee to advise the Provost on promotion and tenure matters. The Faculty Senate Promotion and Tenure Committee shall annually review promotion and tenure cases for compliance with established unit and campus procedures and shall write a report on its findings to the Provost prior to the cases being finalized for forwarding to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.  (Campus Bylaws IV.5,  amended 2021).       
Separate meetings will be held for review of casebooks for candidates for promotion to the rank of associate professor and for review of casebooks for candidates for promotion to the rank of professor. Committee members reviewing casebooks for candidates will hold the rank of professor. Committee members reviewing casebooks for full-professor candidates will hold the rank of professor. (Amended by Faculty Senate 2023.)             

MEMBERSHIP: The Faculty Senate Promotion and Tenure Committee shall include nine tenured faculty members: two from each college and a non-voting chair. The non-voting chair shall serve as a Faculty Senate liaison and shall prepare an annual report to Faculty Senate. The committee is advisory to the provost, and the provost (or designee) may attend all meetings in an ex-officio capacity. 

TERMS OF SERVICE: Terms of service of the college representatives shall be three years (staggered). Term of service of the non-voting chair shall be one year. Terms shall start on September 1 and finish on August 31. Faculty Senate Council may adjust terms to facilitate continuity and balance. 

SELECTION OF MEMBERS: Four college representatives and their alternates shall be chosen by lot by Faculty Senate Council in May. Seats shall be filled by a random draw of tenured faculty from each college. Faculty members holding administrative positions of 50% or more are ineligible. A non-voting chair and their alternate shall be chosen by lot by Faculty Senate Council in May from among the voting members of Faculty Senate who are tenured faculty.  At no time can any member or alternate be administratively appointed (Approved by Faculty Senate December 13, 2021). The Chair of the Faculty Senate Promotion and Tenure Committee should hold the rank of professor (Approved by Faculty Senate February 22, 2021).Eight college representatives and their alternates shall be chosen by lot by Faculty Senate Council in May. Seats shall be filled by a random draw of tenured faculty from each college. Faculty members holding administrative positions of 50% or more are ineligible. A non-voting chair and their alternate shall be chosen by lot by Faculty Senate Council in May from among the voting members of Faculty Senate who are tenured faculty and have served previously as a member of the Faculty Senate Promotion and Tenure Committee.  At no time can any member or alternate be administratively appointed. The Chair of the Faculty Senate Promotion and Tenure Committee should hold the rank of professor. The non-voting chair shall serve as a Faculty Senate liaison and shall prepare an annual report to the Faculty Senate. The committee is advisory to the provost, and the provost (or designee) may attend all meetings in an ex-officio capacity. (Approved by Faculty Senate February 20, 2023)

• CHAIR: Anda Botoseneanu, non-voting, term  expires 08/31/2025, alternate Nancy Wrobel
• CASL: Jacob Napieralski, term expires 08/31/2025, alternate Jin Wang
• CASL: Will Clarkson, term expires 08/31/2026, alternate Nancy Wrobel
• CECS: Bruce Maxim, term expires 08/31/2025, alternate Samir Rawashdeh
• CECS: Dewey Jung, term expires 08/31/2026, alternate Onur Ulgen
• CEHHS: Kirsten Dara Hill, term expires 08/31/2025, alternate Natalie Sampson
• CEHHS: Mesut Duran, term expires 08/31/2026, alternate Natalie Sampson
• COB: Young Ro, term expires 08/31/2025, alternate Kelly N. Cai
• COB: Barbara Klein, term expires 08/31/2026, alternate Jung Hyun Lee
   

CHARGE: The committee shall advise the Vice Provost for Research on ways to support faculty in their research and to promote research collaboration between colleges. Every year in September, the Committee shall create a list of priorities, goals and objectives for the upcoming year. This agenda shall be approved by the Faculty Senate no later than October 1, if possible. The committee should meet with the Vice Provost for Research at least once each semester. At the end of each academic year the committee shall submit a report on progress in accomplishing these objectives to the Faculty Senate. (New charge approved by Faculty Senate, September 24, 2022.)

MEMBERSHIP: The committee shall include one member representing each college for a total of 4 members. Each committee member shall have an alternate. The committee members and alternates shall be elected from and by the governing faculty of the college they represent. The election shall follow the Procedures for Electing Members of Faculty Senate Committees. The term of service of committee members shall be three years and shall start on September 1 and finish on August 31. The terms should be stacked.

One member shall be elected by the committee to serve as the chair (1-year term), and one member shall be elected as the liaison to the Faculty Senate (1-year term). Both can be re-elected. The chair and the FS liaison shall submit an annual report to the Faculty Senate by May 1 of each year. 

As needed for its work, the committee can invite consultants from the Office of Research or other entity to serve as non-voting ex-officio members. (New membership approved by Faculty Senate, March 21, 2022).

Members: 

• CASL: Terri Laws (term expires 08/31/2025), alternate Kalyan Kondapalli 
• CECS: Hafiz Malik (term expires 08/31/2025), alternate Mathumai Kanapathipallai
• CEHHS: TBA (term expires 08/31/2024), alternate TBA
• COB: Young Ro (term expires 08/31/2025), alternate Yi-Su Chen

CHARGE: The Student Media Board (SMB) shall serve in an advisory capacity for the Wolverine Media Network, overseen by the Office of Student Life. The Wolverine Media Network strives to provide practical experience for students interested in journalism, film studies, creative writing, and radio broadcasting. Further, WMN allows students across all disciplines to leverage skills and expertise through marketing, communications, budget management, oversight and development of services, advertising sales, and growing organization partnerships. The SMB shall support WMN through key efforts to enhance the practical learning experience of students and shall help to grow membership and partnerships of the network. The SMB shall meet at least once per semester with the WMN advisors and the Director of Student Life. (New charge approved by an online vote of the Faculty Senate May 5, 2022.)

MEMBERSHIP: Elected faculty representatives: The SMB shall include one faculty member representing each college for a total of four members. In addition, each elected faculty representative shall have an alternate. The faculty representatives and alternates shall be elected from the faculty of the college they represent. Both professorial staff and lecturers can serve on the committee. The election shall follow the Procedures for Electing Members of Faculty Senate Committees. The term of service of elected members shall be three years and shall start on September 1 and finish on August 31. The terms should be stacked. One elected member shall be appointed by the committee to serve as a liaison to the Faculty Senate (1-year term).

Ex-officio representatives: The SMB shall also include the advisors of each WMN contingent, one Student Government representative, one WMN leadership representative, and the Director of Student Life. The Director of Student Life shall serve as the SMB chair. The chair and the FS liaison shall submit an annual report to the Faculty Senate by May 1 of each year. (New membership approved by an online vote of Faculty Senate, May 5, 2022.)

Committee Members: (to be elected August-September 2022)

• Chair: Tyler Guenette, Student Life, ex officio
• CASL
• CECS
• CEHHS
• COB 
• Advisor, WUMD College Radio, ex officio
• Advisor, Campus Video Network, ex officio
• Advisor, Lyceum, ex officio
• Advisor, Michigan Journal, ex officio
• Student Government, ex officio
• WMN Leadership, ex officio
• Director of Student Life, ex officio

University Curriculum and Degree Committee webpage. 

The Course Evaluation Committee was created in 2021, following on the work of a Faculty Senate Task Force on Course Evaluations, which met during AY 2020-2021.

CHARGE: The Course Evaluation Committee shall evaluate and recommend for Faculty Senate approval a standardized set of core questions to be used on course evaluation forms uniformly across campus, manage a database of non-core questions, and consider other related issues, as noted in the Faculty Senate Course Evaluations Task Force Report (2021). When deciding on the questions the Committee shall invite and seek broad faculty input through surveys and other forms of input and feedback collection and shall incorporate that input and feedback in their recommendations to Faculty Senate. (New charge adopted by Faculty Senate, May 10, 2022.) 

MEMBERSHIP: The committee shall include six voting members: one from each college and two at-large lecturers. The committee's voting members and alternates shall be elected from and by the faculty of the unit they represent. Terms of service shall be three years (staggered). Terms shall start on September 1 and finish on August 31. One member shall be elected by the committee to serve as a chair (1-year term) and one as a liaison to the Faculty Senate (1-year term). The chair and the Faculty Senate liaison can be reelected. The committee may also invite consultants to serve ex officio as non-voting members. The chair and the Faculty Senate liaison shall prepare the annual report to the Faculty Senate.  

Members:

•  CHAIR: Robert Hymes (August 31, 2022)

• Truman Hudson, Jr., CEHHS (August 31, 2024), alternate Bonnie McIntosh
• Jun He, COB (August 31, 2024), alternate Yi-Su Chen
• Mengqi Wang, CECS (August 31, 2023), alternate Georges Ayoub
• P.F. Potvin, LEO (August 31, 2023), alternate Pamela Todoroff
• Lise Urbaczewski, LEO (August 31, 2022), alternate Rebecca Bieri
• Arlo Clark-Foos, Faculty Senate Liaison, ex officio non-voting (August 31, 2024)
• Belen Garcia de Hurtado, HUB, ex officio non-voting (August 31, 2024)
• Chris Casey, Digital Education, ex-officio non-voting

This ad hoc committee was charged with drafting policy guidelines for dealing with disruptive student behavior in academic settings; the Disruptive Student Behavior Policy was approved by the Faculty Senate on March 25, 2019.

Committee Members:

• Chair: Mitch Sollenberger, Associate Provost
• Hans Czap, CASL
• Ghassan Kridli, CECS
• Stein Brunvand, CEHHS
• Joy Beatty, COB
• Laura Drabczyk, Emergency Management, CARE Team Chair
• Timothy Wiley, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety

The Faculty Mentoring and Development Committee works with the Faculty Senate and the Provost to encourage and facilitate mentoring of new faculty and the continued development of all faculty members. The Faculty Mentoring & Development Committee is currently inactive.