Note: This story has been updated to reflect an additional seat to be filled.
The Senate Assembly will elect four members to the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs at its March 17 meeting.
The three top vote getters will serve three-year terms, and the fourth-highest vote getter will fill the remaining two years of a seat left vacant when a member stepped down earlier this year.
The University Senate is scheduled to elect a secretary at a separate meeting, also March 17. The secretary serves a three-year term, and is charged with maintaining records for U-M’s faculty governance panels and with keeping the minutes of meetings of the University Senate, Senate Assembly and SACUA.
Candidate profiles will appear in next week’s Record.
The University Senate meeting is set for 3:15 p.m. in the Great Lakes Rooms of Palmer Commons and will be followed immediately by the Senate Assembly meeting. Additional candidates for secretary and SACUA seats may announce their intent to run up to the time of the election.
The University Senate consists of all professorial faculty, librarians, full-time research faculty, executive officers and deans. The Senate Assembly consists of 74 elected faculty members from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. SACUA is a nine-member executive arm of the University Senate and Senate Assembly.
Currently, one candidate has indicated he will run for University Senate secretary and nine candidates have entered the SACUA election:
Secretary candidate
• Bob Fraser, librarian, Mardigian Library, UM-Dearborn.
SACUA candidates
• Sara Ahbel-Rappe, professor of Greek and Latin, and adjunct associate professor of Near Eastern studies, LSA.
• Dan Burns, professor of mathematics, LSA.
• Kimberlee Jane Kearfott, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, and biomedical engineering, College of Engineering; professor of radiology, Medical School; and a faculty fellow in the Graham Sustainability Institute and U-M Energy Institute.
• John Lehman, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, LSA.
• Janine Maddock, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, LSA.
• Bill Schultz, professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, and naval architecture and marine engineering, College of Engineering.
• David Smith, John G. Wagner Collegiate Professor of Pharmacy, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.
• Stefan Szymanski, professor of kinesiology, School of Kinesiology.
• Silke-Maria Weineck, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures, and comparative literature, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, LSA.
