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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2024 – 2025

President:  Stephen Scheck (Natural Sciences & Mathematics)

Vice President: Melanie Landon-Hays (Education & Leadership)

Secretary: Patricia Gimenez-Eguibar (Humanities)

Past President: Elisa Maroney (Deaf Studies & Professional Studies)

At large member: Miyuki Arimoto (Criminal Justice Sciences, 23-25)

At large member: Matthew Ciancetta (Natural Sciences & Mathematics, 24-26)

At large member: Kathy Espino-Pérez (Behavioral Sciences, 23-25)

At large member: Mary Pettenger (Social Science, 24-26)

    IFS Senator: Tad Shannon (Computer Science, 24-26)

    IFS Senator: Ricardo Pelegrin Taboada (Social Science, 25-27)

Curriculum System Manager/Programmer: TBD

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SENATORS 2024 – 2025

Behavioral Sciences: Melissa Cannon (F-W), Shruti Gadkari (Sp), Kathy Espino-Pérez

Business & Economics: Rajeeb Poudel 

Computer Science: Tad Shannon

Creative Arts:  Michael Freeman, Pete Hoffecker Mejia, Ike Nail 

Criminal Justice Sciences: Miyuki Arimoto 

Deaf Studies & Professional Studies: Chung-Fan Ni (W25); Carlos Texidor Maldonado (Sp25) 

Education & Leadership: Jaclyn Caires-Hurley (F-W), Kristen Pratt (Sp), Andrea Emerson (F-W),                  Gregory Zobel (Sp), Xiaopeng Gong (F-W), Danielle Lane (Sp), Melanie Landon-Hays

Health & Exercise Science: Emily Vala-Haynes, Laura Ellingson-Sayen  

Humanities: Kate Connolly, Patricia Gimenez-Eguibar, TBA 

Library: Camila Gabaldón

Nat Sci & Mathematics: Cheryl Beaver, Matthew Ciancetta (F,W), Patricia Flatt, David                                                     Szpakowski (Sp)

Social Science: Eliot Dickinson, Mary Pettenger

  

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NUMBER OF SENATORS BY DIVISION

Division

Senators

(2025-2026)

Senators

(2024-2025)

Senators

(2023-2024)

Senators

(2022-2023)

Behavioral Science         3         2         2         2
Business & Economics         2         1         1         1
Computer Science         1         1         1         1
Creative Arts         3         3         3         3
Criminal Justice         2         1         1         1
Deaf Studies and Professional Studies         2         1         1         1
Education and Leadership         4         4         3         3
Health and Exercise Science         2         2         2         2
Humanities         3         3         3         3
Library         1         1         1         1
Natural Science and Mathematics         3         3         3         4
Social Science         2         2         2         2

 

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