Results: 2025-2026 University Faculty Governance Elections

Faculty Secretary

– Denis Jacob Machado, Bioinformatics and Genomics (CCI)

Chair of Faculty Employment Status Committee (FESC)

– Concepcion Godev, Languages, Cultures and Translation (CHESS)

Chair of Faculty Information & Technology Services Advisory Committee (FITSAC)

– Shen-En Chen, Civil and Environmental Engineering (COE)

Chair of Faculty Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Grants Committee

– Drew Polly, Reading and Elementary Education (COED)

Chair of Faculty Welfare Committee (FWC)

– Jason Giersch, Political Science and Public Administration (CHESS)

Chair of Graduate Council

– Dace Brown, Epidemiology and Community Health (CHHS)

Faculty Assembly Delegates

– Karen Flint, History (CHESS)

– Lisa Walker, Sociology (CHESS)

Grievance Committee, Members [three]

– Arindam Mukherjee, Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

– Dorothy Smith-Ruiz, Africana Studies (CHESS)

– John Szmer, Political Science and Public Administration (CHESS)

Hearing Committee, Members [six]

– Regina Branton, Political Science and Public Administration (CHESS)

– Tracy Rock, Reading and Elementary Education (COED)

– Gregory Starrett, Anthropology (CHESS)

– Michelle Stephan, Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education (COED)

– Meredith Troutman-Jordan, Nursing and Gerontology (CHHS)

– Mark Wilson, History (CHESS)

Teaching Excellence Awards Committee, Member

– Tiffany Gallicano, Communication Studies (CHESS)

Teaching Excellence Awards Committee, Non-Tenure Track Member

– Megan Smith, Sociology (CHESS)