The Faculty Senate
(FS Bylaws, Article 1 and 7)

Membership of Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bylaws, Article 1

1.1 Voting Members

1.1.1 Election of Voting Members

Voting members of the Faculty Senate shall be elected in the following manner:

(A) One member of the Faculty Senate shall be elected from and by the tenure-track faculty of each academic department or school in the degree-granting colleges of the university, with two elected from each department or school of over 50 faculty members, and one faculty member each from the College of Law and the University Libraries. Members of the University Council may not serve as the elected Faulty Senate representative of an academic department. Alternates for elected members of the Faculty Senate shall be selected from the member’s department. Alternates may attend and participate as voting members in the event the elected member is unable to attend.

In addition, 10 non-tenured instructors as defined by the Instructors collective Bargaining Agreement Article 1 shall be voting members. One instructor will be selected by each of the seven degree-granting colleges. The remaining three instructors will be selected at large.

One clinical faculty member will be selected by the Council of Deans.

Two Supportive Professional Staff members will be selected by the Supportive Professional Staff Council.

Two Operating Staff members will be selected by the Operating Staff Council. Operating Staff will serve one-year terms.

(B) When the Faculty Senate does not contain at least one elected faculty representative who is a member of a minority racial group, the elected faculty members of the Faculty Senate shall meet and elect such a representative. The person thus elected shall be chosen from among the faculty members of the university who are eligible for election as a faculty representative of the Faculty Senate. Prior to conducting such an election, the elected faculty representatives on Faculty Senate shall seek nominations from the college faculties and shall elect one of the persons thus nominated. The position thus filled shall be in addition to the number of seats otherwise apportioned. The faculty representative so elected shall serve a term of three years.

(C) Eleven students will have voting membership on the Faculty Senate. One student will be selected by the Student Advisory Committee from each of the six undergraduate degree-granting colleges. Two undergraduate students will be selected by the Student Government Association. Two graduate students will be selected by the Graduate Council. One College of Law student will be selected by the College of Law. Students will serve one-year terms. Students will not vote on faculty and staff personnel matters.

1.1.2 The terms of office for all voting members of the Faculty Senate, except students, shall be for three years and shall begin July 1 of each year.

1.2 Nonvoting Members

1.2.1 Any faculty member of the University Advisory Committee (UAC) to the Board of Trustees who is not a voting member of the Faculty Senate shall be an ex officio nonvoting member.

1.2.2 If not otherwise a member of the Faculty Senate the faculty representative to the Illinois Board of Higher Education Faculty Advisory Committee shall be an ex officio nonvoting member.

1.2.3 If they are not otherwise voting members of the Faculty Senate, the faculty serving as assistant chairs of the Academic Planning Council, the Graduate Council, and the Baccalaureate Council, shall sit as ex officio nonvoting members of the Senate during their terms of office.

1.2.4 If not otherwise a voting member of the Faculty Senate, the Faculty Athletics Representative shall be an ex officio nonvoting member.

Faculty Senate Bylaws, Article 7

7.1 The Faculty Senate shall serve as the official voice of the faculty of Northern Illinois University and as the authoritative representative liaison body between the faculty and (1) the University Council, (2) the president of the university, (3) the executive vice president and provost, (4) other vice presidents with respect to their responsibilities affecting the faculty, and (5) the chair and the Board of Trustees. The Faculty Senate is the body empowered to act as an agent for the university faculty with the power to formulate policies regarding educational functions of the university.

7.2 In accordance with the Preamble and Article 7.3 of the University Constitution and the stated commitment to university governance as a shared process, the Faculty Senate shall serve the following purposes:

7.2.1 Faculty shall predominate in all policy decisions relating to the faculty personnel system, the university curriculum, and to policy decisions concerning admissions and academic policies and standards.

7.2.2 To promote the representation of the faculty in the governance of the university;

7.2.3 To encourage active faculty participation in the development of university policies and procedures;

7.2.4 To discuss and recommend as a Faculty Senate policies affecting the university as a whole;

7.2.5 To promote the welfare of the faculty and the university.

Meets monthly on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 p.m.
2022-2023 dates: Aug 31, Sep 28, Oct 26, Nov 16, Jan 25, Feb 22, Mar 29, Apr 26

TENURE-TRACK FACULTY	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
BUSINESS
Accountancy	Fall-TBD Spring-Mark Mellon	Mark Mellon
Finance	Nan Qin	Nan Qin	Nan Qin
Management	Sarah Marsh	Sarah Marsh	Sarah Marsh
Marketing	Elisa Fredericks	Elisa Fredericks	Elisa Fredericks
OMIS	Biagio Palese for Pendergrass	Biagio Palese	Biagio Palese	Biagio Palese
EDUCATION
Counseling and Higher Education	Xiaodan Hu	Xiaodan Hu
Curriculum and Instruction	Jodi Lampi	Jodi Lampi
Educational Technology, Research & Assessment	Vicki Collins for Johnson	Cindy Campbell	Cindy Campbell	Cindy Campbell
Kinesiology & Physical Education	Peter Chomentowski	Peter Chomentowski	Peter Chomentowski	Peter Chomentowski
Leadership, Educational Psychology & Foundations	Benjamin Creed	Tiffany Puckett for Creed	Ben Creed
Special and Early Education	Lisa Liberty	Lisa Liberty
ENGINEERING & ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
Electrical Engineering	Fall-Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb Spring-Veysel Demir	Veysel Demir
Industrial & Systems Engineering	Gary Chen	Gary Chen
Mechanical Engineering	Sahar Vahabzadeh	Sahar Vahabzadeh	Sahar Vahabzadeh	Sahar Vahabzadeh
Technology	Mahdi Vaezi	Mahdi Vaezi	Mahdi Vaezi
HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES
Allied Health & Communicative Disorders	Fall-In-Sop Kim Spring-King Chung	In-Sop Kin	In-Sop Kim
Family and Consumer Sciences	Bette Montgomery	Bette Montgomery	Bette Montgomery
Health Studies	Arlene Keddie	Sheila Barrett	Sheila Barrett	Sheila Barrett
Interdisciplinary Health Professions	Melanie Duffrin	Melani Duffrin	Melani Duffrin
Nursing	Fall-Nancy Petges Spring-Jeanette Rossetti	Jeanette Rossetti for Petges	Jeanette Rossetti for Petges
LAW	Dan McConkie	Fall-Sarah Fox Spring-Dan McConkie	Dan McConkie	Dan McConkie
LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES
Anthropology	Fall-Dana Bardolph Spring-Emily McKee	Emily McKee
Biological Sciences	Jozef Bujarski	Jozef Bujarski
Chemistry & Biochemistry	Evgueni Nesterov	Evgueni Nesterov	Evgueni Nesterov
Communication	Karen Whedbee	Karen Whedbee
Computer Science	Kirk Duffin	Kirk Duffin
Earth, Atmosphere and Environment	Phil Carpenter	Phil Carpenter
Economics	**George Slotsve	George Slotsve	George Slotsve
English	David Gorman for Aygen	Brian May for Aygen	Gulsat Aygen
History	Ismael Montana	Ismael Montana
Mathematical Sciences	Gleb Sirotkin	Gleb Sirotkin
Philosophy	Fall-Valia Allori Spring-Mylan Engel	Valia Allori
Physics	Yasuo Ito	Yasuo Ito	Yasuo Ito
Political Science	April Clark	April Clark
Psychology	David Valentiner	David Valentiner	David Valentiner
Public Administration	Jaehee Jong	Jaehee Jong	Jaehee Jong
Sociology	Shane Sharp	Shane Sharp	Shane Sharp	Shane Sharp
Statistics and Actuarial Science	Fall-TBD Spring-Lei Hua	Haiming Zhou	Haiming Zhou	Haiming Zhou
World Languages & Cultures	Matthew Smith	Matthew Smith
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES	Beth McGowan	Beth McGowan	Beth McGowan
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
Art and Design	Kryssi Staikidis	TBD for Staikidis	Kryssi Staikidis
Music	David Maki for Beyer	Christopher Scanlon	Christopher Scanlon	Christopher Scanlon
Theatre & Dance	Rich Grund	Lori Hartenhoff	Lori Hartenhoff	Lori Hartenhoff
INSTRUCTORS AND CLINICAL FACULTY	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
Instructor-BUS
Instructor-EDU	David Serowka for Laben	David Serowka for Laben
Instructor-EET	Fall-TBD for Miguel Spring-Ed Miguel	Ed Miguel
Instructor-HHS	Beth Lulinski for Berke	Marcia Berke
Instructor-LAS	TBD for Borre	TBD for Borre
Instructor-LAW	Jeanna Hunter	Jeanna Hunter
Instructor-VPA	Brian Penkrot	Brian Penkrot
Instructor-at large	Tim Sullivan	Tim Sullivan
Instructor-at large	Jason Akst	Jason Akst
Instructor-at large	Victoria Books	Victoria Books
Clinical faculty-at large	Mariah Cheyney	Mariah Cheyney
STAFF	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
Supportive Professional Staff	Felicia Bohanon for Doederlein
Supportive Professional Staff	Stephanie Richter	Stephanie Richter
Operating Staff	Natasha Johnson
Operating Staff	Zac Birch
STUDENTS	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
Student-SAC-BUS
Student-SAC-EDU
Student-SAC-EET
Student-SAC-HHS
Student-SAC-LAS	Jeremy Knoll
Student-SAC-VPA
Student-SGA	Devlin Collins
Student-SGA	Fall-Dallas Douglass Spring-TBD
Student-GC	Fall-Denise Halverson  Spring-Courtney Bradley
Student-GC	Fall-Mitchell Rigert Spring-Sadia Qamar
Student-LAW	Fall-James Bennett Spring-Batoul Haidar
NONVOTING MEMBERS OR CONSULTANTS	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
Faculty members of the University Advisory Committee  to the Board of Trustees	*Peter Chomentowski	Ismael Montana
	Karen Whedbee	Karen Whedbee	Karen Whedbee
	Katy Jaekel	Katy Jaekel
	Greg Beyer for Hanna
Faculty Advisory Committee to the IBHE	Linda Saborío	Linda Saborío	Linda Saborío	Linda Saborío
Assistant Chair, APC	Marc Falkoff
Assistant Chair, GC	Katy Jaekel
Assistant Chair, BC	Amanda Ferguson
Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR)	Mark Groza	Mark Groza
Parliamentarian	Ferald Bryan	Ferald Bryan
Ombudsperson	Merlynette Griffin