College Councils
(FS Bylaws, Article 5.1.1)

Membership to College Council 

5.1.1.1 Composition - The College Council shall consist of tenured faculty of the college. There shall be a minimum of one member from each department elected by and from the faculty of that department. Additional eligibility criteria shall be determined by the faculty of the college. The dean of the college shall serve as chair and shall be responsible for preparing an agenda for council approval.

5.1.1.2 Duties

(A) To act in an advisory capacity to the dean of the college on policy with respect to academic activities of the college;

(B) To serve as the college personnel committee and advise the dean of the college concerning salaries, promotions, tenure and sabbatical leaves;

(C) To make recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning the policies of the college and the university;

(D) To select the college council's representatives from that college to the Faculty Senate Personnel Committee. Each such appointee must not be a department chair, nor a member of a department, one of whose members is already serving on that committee;

(E) To exercise all of the functions assigned to the college personnel committee by these bylaws.

College Councils Membership 2025-2026

College of Business
Joan Phillips-Hernandez, Dean
Ann Dzuranin, Accountancy
Amanda Ferguson, Management
Vijaykumar Krishnan Palghat, Marketing
Chang Liu, Operations Management and Information Systems
Len Lundstrum, Finance

College of Education
Stephen Tonks, Chair, Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations
Gudrun Nyunt, Counseling, Adult and Higher Education
Jodi Lampi, Curriculum and Instruction
Lisa Liberty, Special and Early Education
Paul Wright, Kinesiology and Physical Education
Todd Reeves, Educational Technology, Research and Assessment

College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
David Grewell, Dean

College of Health and Human Sciences
Kelly Fiala, Dean
Jinsook Kim, Chair, Health Studies
Bette Montgomery, Family and Consumer Sciences
Kathryn Mazurek, Interdisciplinary Health Professions
Jie Chen, Nursing
Rosanne Thomas, Allied Health and Communicative Disorders

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Robert Brinkmann, Dean, Chair
Amanda Durik, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Leslie Matuszewich, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs
Chris McCord, Associate Dean for Academic Administration
Giovanni Bennardo/Leila Porter, Anthropology
Holly Jones, Biological Sciences
Irina Nesterova, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Betty La France, Communication
Reva Freedman, Computer Science
Mark Fischer, Earth, Atmosphere and Environment
Virginia Wilcox, Economics
Nicole Clifton, English
Trude Jacobsen Gidazewski, History
Maya Mincheva, Mathematical Sciences
Carl Gillett/Mylan Engel, Philosophy
Roland Winkler, Physics
April Clark, Political Science
Brad Sagarin, Psychology
Eunju Rho, Public Administration
Jeffrey Kidder/TBD, Sociology
Michelle Xia, Statistics and Actuarial Sciences
Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg, World Languages and Cultures

College of Visual and Performing Arts
Paul Kassel, Dean
Ed Klonoski, Associate Dean
Geof Bradfield, Music, voting
Brian Hart, Music, nonvoting
Sahin Sahinoglu, Theatre and Dance, voting
Brandon Wardell, Theatre and Dance, nonvoting
Ann Van Dijk, Art and Design, voting
Billie Giese, Art and Design, nonvoting