EIU Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committees: 2024 - 2025

Executive Committee: Todd Bruns (Chair), Jeff Stowell (Vice-Chair), Nichole Mulvey (Recorder)

• Meet monthly with the President and Provost of the University.
• Shall be as described in Robert’s Rules of Order.
  • Chair duties: Conduct Faculty Senate meetings; serve on CUPB and one CUPB subcommittee; Conduct Shared Governance Chairs monthly meeting (CAA/CFR/COTE/CGS/Staff Senate/Student Senate); Update Faculty Senate webpages.
  • Vice-Chair duties: Serve as Elections committee chair; organize and run Faculty Senate Spring election and if needed Fall special election.
  • Recorder duties: Take minutes at Faculty Senate meetings; Send out meeting reminders and announcements to faculty body.

Awards Committee: Steve Scher (Chair), Md Farhadur Reza, Anne Thibault Geen

• Administer the annual Faculty Senate awards

Budget Transparency Committee: Grant Sterling (Chair), Barbara Carlsward, Isaac Slaven

• Investigate and solicit information for better understanding of university budgets and planning

Elections & Appointments Committee: Jeff Stowell (Chair), Steve Brantley, Jeanne Okrasinski

• Solicit faculty members willing to be appointed to various committees and boards on campus
• Make appointments to all university committees and boards
• Solicit faculty members willing to run for election to university committees and boards
• Serve as liaison between Faculty Senate and all other university committees and boards
• Conduct all faculty elections
• Determine procedures to fill vacancies on Faculty Senate committees and boards

Faculty Forum Committee: Anne Thibault Geen (Chair), Matthew Inverso, Anna Kochigina, Md Farhadur Reza

• Host a periodic forum dedicated to a current issue affecting the campus

Student & Staff Relations Committee: Brad Decker (Chair), Todd Bruns, Anna Kochigina

• Work in conjunction with the Staff Senate and Student Senate
  
• Monitor and coordinate efforts on issues that affect faculty, staff, and students

Parliamentarian: Steve Scher