The Senate Assembly on Monday elected faculty members from the Medical School, LSA and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business to the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, the executive arm of the university’s faculty governance system.
Douglas Richstone
David Wright
Elected to three-year terms were:
• Angela Fagerlin, associate professor of internal medicine and adjunct associate professor of psychology.
• Douglas Richstone, Lawrence Aller Collegiate Professor of Astronomy.
• David Wright, associate professor of accounting.
A separate election for University Senate secretary was not conducted due to the lack of a quorum of the full University Senate. SACUA is expected to name an interim secretary.
David Potter, Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of Greek and Latin, was the only candidate for Senate secretary, which 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.
The Senate Assembly chose the new SACUA members from among five nominees. Fagerlin, Richstone and Wright will begin their terms May 1 and serve through April 30, 2018.
Also running were Maria J. Silveira, associate professor of internal medicine, and Stefan Szymanski, professor of kinesiology.
SACUA is the nine-member executive arm of the University Senate and Senate Assembly. The 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.
The three new members will succeed outgoing members Scott Masten, professor of business economics and public policy; Sally Oey, professor of astronomy; and Rex Holland, professor of cariology, restorative sciences and endodontics.
They will join incumbents Anne Mondro, associate professor of art and design; Robert Ziff, professor of chemical engineering; Bill Schultz, professor of mechanical engineering, and naval architecture and marine engineering; John Lehman, professor of biology; David Smith, John G. Wagner Collegiate Professor of Pharmacy and professor of pharmaceutical sciences; and Silke-Maria Weineck, professor of Germanic languages and literatures.
