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Senate Committees

Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Name Unit Term
Johanna Nilsson, IFC Arts & Sciences 2019-2022
Jacob Marszalek Arts & Sciences 2017-2020
Stephen Dilks, Past Chair Arts & Sciences 2017-2020
Tom Mardikes, Chair Conservatory 2018-2021
Chair-elect - OPEN

Division of Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Commitee information available at: http://info.umkc.edu/diversity/



Ability to Work (Standing Committee)

Name Unit Appointed
Bruce Bubacz Arts & Sciences 2018-2019
Toya Like Arts & Sciences 2018-2019
Thiagarajan Ganesh Arts & Sciences 2018-2020
Lorie Holt Dentistry 2018-2020
Joan McDowd Arts & Sciences 2018-2021
Jim Murowchick Arts & Sciences 2018-2021

Academic Issues Committee

Name Unit Term

Jennifer Lundgren

 Arts & Sciences

Marilyn Yoder

Biological Sciences

Nancy Weatherholt

Bloch

Connie White Dentistry

Cynthia Petrie

Dentistry

Bonita Butner

Education

Steven Krantz

Nursing & Health Sciences

Cristy Roberts,

Nursing & Health Sciences

Orisa Igwe

Pharmacy


Administrative Issues Committee

Name Unit Term
Carrie Hanson Dentistry 2012-2014
Buddy Pennington, co-Chair Libraries 2013-2015
An-Lin Cheng Nursing & Health Sciences 2012-2015
Anil Kumar, co-Chair Pharmacy 2012-2015

Campus Committee on Tenure

Name Unit Term

Christie Hodgen

CAS: Humanities

2019-2022

Da-Ming Zhu

CAS: Natural Sciences

2018-2021

Joan McDowd

CAS: Social Sciences

2018-2021

Thiagarajan Ganesh

Computing & Engineering

2018-2021

Kimberly Bray

Dentistry

 

William Gutheil

Pharmacy

2018-2021

Omiunota Ukpokodu

Education

2018-2020

Tom Mardikes

Conservatory

2019-2022

John Wang

Medicine

2018-2021

Jeffery Price

Biological and Chemical Science

2018-2021

Saul Honingberg

Biological and Chemical Science

2018-2021

Irma Russell

Law

2018-2021

Cindy Russell Nursing and Health Science  

Kalpesh Desai

Bloch School of Management

 

Committee on Research Integrity

Name Unit Term

John Barton

Arts & Sciences

2018-2019

David Van Horn

Arts & Sciences

2018-2019

Jeff Bennett

Arts & Sciences

2018-2019

Joe Parisi

Conservatory of Music & Dance

2018-2019

Amanda Emerson

Nursing

2018-2019

Cindy Russell

Nursing & Health Sciences

2016-2020

Chris Brown

Education

2018-2019

Ellen Suni

Law

2018-2019

 Faculty Senate Budget Committee

Name Unit Term
Mark Johnson, Chair School of Dentistry
Paul G. Cuddy School of Medicine
Amanda Grimes School of Nursing
Tony Luppino School of Law
Erik Olsen Arts & Sciences
Ceki Halmen Computer Science & Engineering
Buddy Pennington University Libraries
Melanie Simmer-Beck School of Dentistry
Leigh Salzsieder Bloch School of Management
Steve Stoner School of Pharmacy
Ronald Tice UMKC Conservatory
Jennifer Waddell School of Education

Ex officio

 
Mauli Agrawal Chancellor
Barbara A. Bichelmeyer Provost,
Sharon Lindenbaum1 Vice Chancellor Finance
Tom Mardikes Chair of Senate Committee
Stephen Dilks Past-Chair of Faculty Senate

Faculty Welfare Committee

Name Unit Term
Karen Bame Biological Sciences 2013-2016
Ganesh Thiagarajan CSE 2015-2017
Lynn Friesen Dentistry 2013-2015
Rochelle Ziskin CAS 2015-2017
Sue Sykes Berry, Chair Libraries 2013-2015

General Education Curriculum Committee (GECC)

Name Unit Term
Ken Baker Arts & Sciences  2017-2020
Ruth Cain Ex-Officio  2017-2020
Amy Carlson Ex-Officio  2017-2020
Rhiannon Dickerson Ex-Officio 2017-2020
Ceki Halmen, Senate Representative  2017-2020
James Benevides Biological Sciences 2017-2020
Mardi Mahaffy Chair 2017-2020
Renee Semarge Nursing 2017-2020
Johanna Nilsson Education 2017-2020

Jennifer Waddell

 ex-officio

2017-2020

Robert Riggs

 Arts & Sciences

2017-2020

William Everett

 Conservatory

2017-2020

Benjamin Howard

 ex-officio

2017-2020