New Mexico Tech

 Faculty Senate Officers and Standing Committees

2008 - 2009 Academic Year

Officers for 2008-2009:

Chair: David Burleigh
Vice-Chair: Tom Engler
Parliamentarian: Brian Borchers

Members who remain on a committee for a second year should meet to designate a chair, and to forward the names of all chairs to the Office for Academic Affairs for posting on its web site.

Committees:

Academic Standards and Admission Committee (2-year term with a 2/3 rotation):

2007 - 2009 Ivan Avramidi, Julie Ford
2008 - 2010 Mike Pullin, Paul Arendt, Paul Fuierer 

Ex-Officio Members: Registrar, Director of Admission, Director of Advising Resource Center, Director of Financial Aid

Student Discipline Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation)

2007 - 2009 Gary Axen, Andrei Zagrai, Anwar Hossain
2008 - 2010 Mike Heagy, Tom Kieft

Ex-Officio Members: Student Representative

Financial Aid and Scholarship Committee (2-year term, with a 1/2 rotation):

2007 - 2009 Bixiang Wang
2008 - 2010 Hector Erives, Michaelann Tartis

Ex-Officio Members: Director of Financial Aid, Student Representative

Honorary Degrees & Awards Committee (2-year term, with a 1/2 rotation): 

2007 - 2009 Sharon Sessions
2008 - 2010 Rebecca Reiss, Subhasish Mazumdar 

Nominating Committee (2-year term, with a 1/2 rotation):

2007 - 2009 Navid Mojtabai
2009 - 2010 Sue Dunston, Dave Westpfahl 

Computing on Campus (2-year term, with a 3/3 rotation):

2007 - 2009 Mehrdad Razavi, Claudia Wilson, Hamdy Solimon
2008 - 2010 Mark Cal, John Starret, Richard Sonnenfeld

Ex-Officio Members: Director of Academic Computing, Library Director, Dean of Students, Undergraduate Student Representative and Graduate Student Representative

ADA (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation): 

2007 - 2009 Carlos Ulibarri, Enrique Vivoni, Lisa Young 
2008 - 2010 Dave Westpfahl, Andrew Budek 

Ex-Officio Members: Director Counseling and Disability Services, Director Affirmative Action

Assessment and Retention Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation): 

2007 - 2009 Clint Richardson, Bruce Harrison, Ken Minschwaner, Mark Samuels
2008 - 2010 Mark Samuels, David Burleigh

Ex-Officio Members: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Director of the Advising Resource Center, the Director of Admission, the Registrar (who is also the Higher Ed Coordinator) and a Student Representative

Distance Education Committee (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2007 - 2009 Nicoli Kalujin, Ashok Ghosh, Bill Chavez
2008 - 2010 Bin Lim, Dave Westpfahl

Ex-Officio Members: Director of Education Outreach and Distance Instruction/Distance Education, Registrar, Director of Information Services, and Director of Academic Computing

Ombudspersons (2-year term, one representative from faculty, one from staff): 

2007 - 2009 Ken Minschwaner, Mike Kloeppel

Academic Freedom & Tenure (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2007 - 2009 Tom Engler, Bill Rison, Dave Raymond
2008 - 2010 Robert Bond, Tom Kieft 

Budget & Research Committee (3-year term, with a 2/2/2 rotation):

2006 - 2009 Bill Stone, Bhaskar Majumdar
2007 - 2010 John Wilson
2008 – 2010 Richard Sonnenfeld, Iver Davidson, Kevin Wedeward

Space Utilization (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2007 - 2009 John Wilson, Rob Bowman
2008 - 2010 Warren Ostergren, Deidre Hirschfeld, Peter Hofner

Ex-Officio Members: Director of Facilities Planning, Registrar, Student Representative

Sabbatical (2-year term, with a 2/3 rotation):

2007 - 2009 Sneza Rogelj, Rebecca Reiss 
2008 - 2010 Lisa Young, Sue Dunston, Fred Phillips