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Annual Report for 2024-25

Annual Report of the Steering Committee of the Academic Senate

Academic Year 2024-2025

 

Membership 2024-2025

Chair, Dr. Scott Litroff

Vice Chair, Dr. Daniel Garbin

Secretary, Prof. Phil Nelan

 

Membership 2025 – 2026 – all members ran unopposed

Chair, Dr. Scott Litroff

Vice Chair, Dr. Daniel Garbin

Secretary, Dr. Barbara Rome 

 

Actions taken by the Academic Senate may be seen here.

The following extra-charge actions by Standing Committees of the Academic Senate were undertaken:

  • Steering Committee formed a Special Committee on AI 
  • Committee on Committees engaged in troubleshooting of the Big Pulse system to ensure proper rollout of Senate Elections 
  • EQLD Committee renamed to EQLA to better reflect the committee's work 
  • Bylaws Committee created a user-friendly template for the submission of Bylaws amendment requests. 

 

Steering Committee undertook the following actions:

  • Steering Committee presented the Request for Reassigned time to President Mangino, which she approved. The request for 24 hours was the same as the request for 2024-2025
  • Managed role of STO within the Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary positions
  • Collaborated with Committee on Commitees in gathering sufficient faculty volunteers for populating Senate and Standing Committee positions 
  • Conducted trainings with committee officers on online Information Management System with 2 meetings in Fall and 2 in Spring. 
  • Oversaw efforts to encourage use of Zoom login for accurate polling results at Senate Meetings 
  • Served on the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness search committee 
  • Assisted formation of Special Committee on AI, which assisted with dfaculty engagement in Dr. Phyllis Curtis-Tweed's AI Book Club 

Steering Committee acknowledges the outstanding work of Senate Standing Committee chairs and secretaries in 2024-2025.

Steering Committee thanks Phil Nelan for his commitment to excellence in the role of SC Secretary, and thanks Barbara Rome for stepping into the role of Secretary for 2025-2026.

Steering Committee thanks Rezan Akpinar for stepping up to serve another year as Parliamentarian. 

Steering Committee thanks Committee on Committees for a cooperative effort to populate Senate and Standing Committee positons, as well as for a commitment to work toward gathering information that would alleviate these issues in 2025-2026. 

Steering Committee thanks Daniel Garbin for continuing in the role of Vice Chair.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Scott Litroff , Chair

 

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