The Faculty Council meets before every Faculty Meeting. The responsibilities of the Faculty Council include:
- Identify decision-making processes that would benefit from faculty participation, and engage faculty in those processes.
- Serve as a centralized, representative body to whom faculty can express interests and raise concerns; and with whom faculty can engage in long-term planning and meaningful deliberation.
- Set faculty meeting agenda at meetings that take place ten to fourteen days prior to each faculty meeting. If consensus over agenda items is not reached, the issue can be settled by a majority vote in which each person has one vote.
- Receive agenda items that do not neatly correspond to remits or timelines of standing committees. Any faculty member with an item they would like to discuss at the next faculty meeting should share it with the Council for discussion and a possible vote.
- Facilitate communication between the faculty, the President’s Leadership Team, and college-wide committees and task forces that are not led by faculty but on which faculty serve.
All Council members are responsible for transmitting items discussed in committees, at Faculty Forums, and through individual communications with other faculty to the rest of the Faculty Council. The Faculty Chairperson Pro Tempore, each committee chair, and each at-large member is responsible for representing the faculty as a whole in communications with the President’s Leadership Team and other College leaders.
Beyond agenda setting, the Faculty Council does not make decisions on behalf of the faculty unless the faculty chooses to delegate specific powers of decision-making to the body.
Current Membership
Dan Hofrenning, Faculty Chairperson Pro Tempore
Olaf Hall-Holt, Academic Assessment Committee Chair
Dana Gross, Curriculum Committee Chair
Louis Epstein, Faculty Governance Committee Chair
Shelly Dickinson, Faculty Life Committee Chair
Hsiang-Lin Shih, Student Life Committee Chair
TBD, at-large
TBD, at-large
TBD, at-large
Michael Fuerstein, Parliamentarian
Tarshia Stanley, Provost
Susan Rundell Singer, President of the College