About the Penn State Scranton Faculty Senate Council

Duties of the Faculty Senate Council
A. Serve as an advisory board to the Faculty Senate as a whole;
B. Review and coordinate campus yearly strategic plan and the yearly plans of the Faculty Senate Standing Committees;
C. Provide a mechanism for planning and evaluation of Faculty Senate committee work;
D. Provide a mechanism for the evaluation of Faculty Senate committee members and Executive Officer performance;
E. Evaluate and propose the need for implementing Special Committees of the Faculty Senate;
F. Evaluate and prioritize proposals to the campus for financial support of new and continuing Faculty Senate committee programs; and
G. Review and evaluate the campus Constitution and proposed amendments to the Constitution before presentation to the Faculty Senate as a whole..

Membership

  • Chair: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes
  • Chair-Elect: Vacant
  • Immediate Past-Chair: Nonna Sorokina
  • Secretary: Stephanie Longo
  • Parliamentarian: Paul Frisch
  • Director of Academic Affairs (ex-officio member): Meg Hatch
  • Chair of Curricular Affairs: Kara Stone
  • Chair of Faculty Affairs: Fred Aebli
  • Chair of Student Affairs: Bella Provenzano
  • Chair of Undergraduate Education: Mizanoor Rahman
  • University Faculty Senator: Paul Frisch, Parminder Parmar
  • University College Faculty Council: Kevin Feifer, Gina Gray

Past Chairs

  • Nonna Sorokina, 2024-2025
  • Megan Van Etten, 2023-2024
  • Xialing Lin, 2022-2023
  • Kara Stone, 2021-2022
  • Raymond Petren, 2020-2021
  • Renae McNair, 2019-2020
  • Paul Frisch, 2018-2019
  • David Byman, 2017 – 2018
  • Gina Gray, 2016 – 2017
  • Meg Hatch, 2015 – 2016

Past Secretaries

 

  • Gina Gray, 2024-2025
  • Jody Griffith, 2021-2023
  • Megan Van Etten, 2019-2021
  • Kristin Green, 2017-2019
  • Laura Nathans, 2015-2017