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