Membership

Co-Chairs: The committee shall be co-chaired by a representative or designee from the Office of the Provost and a college dean’s office representative, selected based on the established annual rotation cycle.

    • The representative or designee from the Provost’s Office shall serve as Co-Chair of the committee. This co-leadership structure reflects and supports the alignment of academic policy recommendations originating from both the Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee and the Office of the Provost, while ensuring college-level perspectives are integrated through the rotating dean’s office representation.

Each academic dean or administrative department head will appoint one representative and an alternate member. Each college and administrative unit will have one vote.

The Co-Chair and Secretary of the committee will rotate through the Academic College Representatives (excluding Veterinary Medicine, Leadership Studies, and the Graduate School) and the term will be one year.

2026-2027 Committee Members

Updated: 1 June 2026

Applied and Professional Studies, Olathe (AI)

Kimberly Voigt
alternate: TBD

Agriculture (AG)

Jennifer Bormann
alternate: Mishelle Hay McCammant

Architecture, Planning & Design (AR)

Mitzi Farmer
alternate: Katie Kingery-Page

Arts & Sciences (AS)

Christie Lanius
alternate: Sonya Baker

Business Administration (BA)

Bente Janda, Chair
alternate: Katie Barkley

Education (ED)

Roger Schieferecke
alternate: Di Murphy

Engineering (EN)

Andy Fund
alternate: Olga Heim

Graduate School (GS)

Phillip Payne
alternate: Scott Schlender

Health and Human Sciences (HHS)

Shawna Jordan
alternate: Hallie Alaniz

Leadership (LD)

Trisha Gott
alternate: TBD

Technology and Aviation, Salina

Terri Gaeddert
alternate: Kathy Sanders

Veterinary Medicine (VM)

James Roush
alternate: Lindsy Clark

Administrative Units/Voting Ex-Officio members:

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Innovation

Simone Cummings
alternate: Margaret Mohr-Schroder

Vice Provost for Enrollment Management

Karen Goos
alternate: Patrick Winter

Divison of Information Technology (IT)

Scott Finkeldei
alternate: TBD

Student Support and Accountability

Andy Thomspon
alternate: TBD

Division of Academic Success and Student Affairs (DASSA)

Bill Watts
alternate: Pamela Erickson

Registrar (REG)

Kelley Brundage
alternate: Carrie Fink

Faculty Senate Academic Affairs (FSAAC)

Shane Lyon
alternate: Logan Britton