New Mexico Tech

 Faculty Senate Officers and Standing Committees

2007 - 2008 Academic Year

Officers for 2007-2008:

Chair : Dave Westpfahl
Vice-Chair: Tom Engler
Parliamentarian: Richard Sonnenfeld

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):

2006 - 2008 Lorie Liebrock, Mike Pullin, Peter Mozley
2007 - 2009 Ivan Avramidi, Julie Ford 

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)

2006 - 2008 Paul Fuierer, Alex Prusin
2007 - 2009 Gary Axen, Andrei Zagrai, Anwar Hossain

Ex-Officio Members: Student Representative

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

2006 - 2008 Kevin Kirk, Glenn Spinelli
2007 - 2009 Bixiang Wang

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

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

2006 - 2008 Andy Campbell, Rafael Lara-Martinez
2007 - 2009 Sharon Sessions  

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

2006 - 2008 Navid Mojtabai, Tanja Pietraß
2007 - 2009 Don Weinkauf     

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

2006 - 2008 Mark Cal, Dave Raymond, Bill Rison
2007 - 2009 Mehrdad Razavi, Claudia Wilson, Hamdy Solimon

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

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

2006 - 2008 Scott Shors, Peng Zhang
2007 - 2009 Carlos Ulibarri, Enrique Vivoni, Lisa Young            

Ex-Officio Members:  Counselor, Director Affirmative Action

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

2006 - 2008 John McCoy, Clint Richardson, Bruce Harrison, Ken Minschwaner,
                    Bert Kerr, Ron Thomas
2007 - 2009 Clint Richardson, Bruce Harrison, Ken Minschwaner, Mark Samuels

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):

2006 - 2008 Julie Ford, Peter Anselmo
2007 - 2009 Nicoli Kalujin, Ashok Ghosh, Bill Chavez

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 the faculty, one from staff):  

2007 - 2009 Ken Minschwaner, Mike Kloeppel

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

2006 - 2008 Rakhim Aitbayev, Mike Heagy
2007 - 2009 Tom Engler, Bill Rison, Dave Raymond    

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

2005 - 2008 Ken Minschwaner , Penny Boston
2006 - 2009 Bill Stone, Bhaskar Majumdar
2007 - 2010 John Wilson, Don Weinkauf

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

2006 - 2008             Tanja Pietraß, Mike Topliff, Mark Cal
2007 - 2009             John Wilson, Rob Bowman

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

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

2006 - 2008 Robert Holson, Robert Bond, Hamdy Soliman
2007 - 2009 Sneza Rogelj, Rebecca Reiss