Committees

University Committees for 2021 - 2022

Administrative Committees

Executive Budget Committee: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Pranesh Aswath, John Davidson 

Compliance, Accountability, Risk and Ethics Committee: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Pranesh Aswath, Shelby Boseman, John Davidson, Jackie Fay, Jim Grover, John Hall, Troy Johnson, Teresea Madden, Lisa Nagy, Jeff Neyland Ex-officio: Jennifer Chapman, David Price, Jecoliah Ruddock, Toyi Vaughan, Joseph Zschiesche

Council of Academic Deans: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Pranesh Aswath (interim Provost), Rebecca Bichel, Dan Cavanaugh (interim), Peter Crouch, Harry Dombroski, Teresa Doughty, Jim Grover, Tim Henry (Assistant Dean), Morteza Khaledi, Maria Martinez-Cosio (interim), Elizabeth Merwin, Scott Ryan

Council of Chairs: Pranesh Aswath, Chair
Seyedali Abolmaali, Erian Armanios, Bradley Bell, George Benson, Jenean Boyd, Brent Boyea (interim), Elten Briggs, Michael Cho, Clay Clark, Paul Componation, David Coursey, August Davis, Raymond Elliott (interim), Cory Forbes, Perry Fuchs, John Gonzales, Anne Healy (interim), Diana Huffaker, Heather Jacobson (interim), Hong Jiang, Kelley Keating, David Keller, Kent Kerley, Carl Lovely, Marilee Ludvik, Radha Mahapatra, Roger Meiners, Efstathios Meletis, Diane Mitschke, Scott Palmer, Kevin Porter, Ignacio Ruiz-Perez (interim), Sanjiv Sabherwal, Charla Markham Shaw, Jianzhong Su, Ramgopal Venkataraman, Martha Walvoord (interim), Alex Weiss, Kenneth Williford, Arne Winguth

Institutional Audit Committee: Randal Rose, Chair (Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Chase)
Chair External members: Helen Dickey (Partner, Harris & Dickey), Stephen Frimpong (Retired), Brian Gutierrez (Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration,Texas Christian University); Internal members: Pranesh Aswath, Shelby Boseman, John Davidson, Harry Dombroski, Jackie Fay, John Hall, Jennifer Cowley, Jewel Washington, Bryan Samuel; Non-voting internal members: Jennifer Chapman, David Price

Faculty Committees

Academic Standards Committee: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Esther Betrán,Justin Ginsberg, Connie Lowery, Robert Magnusson, Annie Nordberg, Alejandro Rodriguez, Luis Rosado, Bin Srinidhi

Committee on Committees: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Ishfaq Ahmed, Rhonda Brisby, Norman Cobb,   Bill Crowder, Jeff Demuth, Tom Dombrowsky, Rick Hoefer, Jean Hood, Holly Hungerford-Kresser, Abdul Rasheed, Jamie Rogers, Peggy Semingson, Chunke Su, Bart Weiss, Kayuninta Johnson Winters, Bijan Youssefzadeh

Committee on Graduate Program Creation: Seyedali Abolmaali, Ard Anjomani, Rebecca Bichel, Jinny Choi, Courtney Cronley, Raymond Jackson, Lauri John, David Jorgensen, Diane Mitschke, Edmund Prater

Committee on Graduate Program Revision: Ivonne Audirac, Rebecca Bichel, Raymond Jackson, Jared Kenworthy, Jon Leffingwell, Diane Mitschke, Patti Parker, Panos Shiakolas, Mary Tremayne, Bijan Youssefzadeh

Committee on Graduate Students: Matthew Brothers, Vaibhav Dhamangaonkar, Raymond Jackson, Soo Hong Kim, Subhrangsu Mandal, Diane Mitschke, Terrance Skantz, David Sparks

Committee on Rules and Elections: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Denise Cauble, Tom Hall, Richard Hoefer, Yi Hong, Theresa Jorgensen, Jianling Li, Maria Trache

Faculty Senate : Jacqueline Fay, Chair; Bill Carroll, Vice-Chair/Past Chair; Kayunta Johnson-Winters, Secretary; TBD, Parliamentarian; Michael Nelson, TCOFS representative
Amy Austin, Karabi Bezboruah, Alan Bowling, Lauren Brewer, Keith Burgess-Jackson, Alan Cannon, Wei Chen, CY Choi, Fletcher Coleman, Kaushik De, Imre Demhardt, Venkat Devarajan, John Diltz, Ramez Elmasri, Sergio Espinosa, Michael Fairchild, Noelle Fields, Matthew Fujita, Julienne Greer, Doug Grisaffe, Michael Holmes, Max Hu, Darlene Hunter, Aimee Israel-Pelletier, Amanda Jackson, Ankur Jain, Song Jiang, Theresa Jorgensen, Jared Kenworthy, Choong-Un Kim, Andrzej Korzeniowski, David Levine, Atefe Makhmalbaf, Steve Mattingly, Jeff McGee, Andy Milsom, Erin Murrah-Mandril, Joyce Myers, Michael Nelson, Anne Nordberg, Taner R. Ozdil, Cindy Plonien, Stefan Romanoschi, Thomas Rusher, Ioannis Schizas, Amy Speier, Christy Spivey, Ben Srinidhi, Chunke Su, Barbara Tobolowsky, Jodi Tommerdahl, Margarita Trevino, Nilakshi Veerabathina, Melissa Walsh, Shouyi Wang, Kathryn Warren, Sara Washington, Naoko Witzel, Baohong Yuan, Roxanne Zascavage, Ex-officio: Pranesh Aswath, Caitlyn Burge (Student Body President), Alicia Gill (SAC representative), Jennifer Cowley

Graduate Assembly: Ali Abolmaali, Chair
Ivonne Audirac, Matthew Brothers, Dennis Chiessa, Jenny Choi, Shawn Christensen, Leonidas Fegaras, John Hillas, David Jorgensen, Cindy Kilpatrick, Subhra Mandal, Rebecca Mauldin, Cedrick May, Jaqueline Michael, Patti Parker, Kathryn Pole, Regina Praetorius, Alejandro Rodriguez, Panos Shiakolas, Terry Skantz, Eusebius Small, Mahmut Yassar, Jiyoon Yoon, Jennifer Zhang, Yi Zhang, Ex-officio: Pranesh Aswath, Rebecca Bichel, Dan Cavanagh, Peter Crouch, Harry Dombroski, Teresa Doughty, Jim Grover, Raymond Jackson, Morteza Khaledi, Rebecca Lewis, Nichole Mancone-Fisher, Maria Martinez-Cosio, Elizabeth Merwin, Amber Smallwood, Scott Ryan 

Hearing Panel: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Diane Allen, Carrie Ausbrooks,  Randall Basham,  Marco Brotto,  David Diltz,  Ben Dolezal,  Matt Fujita,  Don Gatzke,  Bethanne Peirce Hall,  Lonny Harrison,  Rod Hissong,  Richard Hoefer,  Christopher Kribs, Jim Lavelle,  Jon Leffingwell,  Yue Liu,  Maria Scannapieco,  Mary Schira,  Jing Ling Tam,  Cindy Trowbridge,  Mary Whiteside 

Registration, Calendar and Scheduling Committee: Pranesh Aswath, Chair
Carrie Ausbrooks, Zeynep Celik-Butler, Conroy Kydd, Stephen Maizlish, Ana Maria Peredo-Manor, Kimberly Tate

Teacher Education Council: *Committee information will be updated soon

Undergraduate Assembly: Pranesh Aswath, Chair
Seyedali Abolmaali, Miguel Amaya, Shanna Banda, Linda Barasch Nathan Brown, Caitlyn Burge (Student Congress President), Kay-Yut Chen, Paul Conrad, He Dong, Segio Espinosa, Cecil Flores, Grace Hao, Brenda Harris, Michael Holmes, Tom Ingram, Leslie Jennings, Hyesun Jeong, Robin Jocius, Pam Johnson, Arafaa Khan, Young-Tae Kim, Cynthina Laborde, Catherine LaBrenz, Joohi Lee, Jianling Li, Joshua Nason, Sophia Passy, David Rosser, Peggy Semingson, Aaron Smallwood, Priscila Tamplain, Ex-officio: Rebecca Bichel, Jeanean Boyd, Dan Cavanagh, Peter Crouch, Harry Dombroski, Teresa Doughty, Jackie Fay, Jim Grover, Katie Hageman, Tim Henry, Darlene Hunter, Raymond Jackson, Morteza Khaledi, Douglas Klahr, Conroy Kydd, Rebecca Lewis, Maria Martinez-Cosio, Elizabeth Merwin, Laura Mydlarz, Lynn Peterson, Edith Reed, Meagan Rogers, Scott Ryan, Amber Smallwood, Kimberly Tate, Jodi Tommerdahl 

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: Tom Ingram, Chair
Bonnie Boardman, Rebecca Deen, Sonja Ezell, Tom Ingram, Fernando Jaramillo, Steve Quevedo Fred Miao, Laura Mydlarz, Phyllis Pastwa, Lynn Peterson, Cristina Salinas, Seiichiro Tanizaki, Allison Tomlinson, Gretchen Trkay, Perri Turner, Abu Yilla, Ex-officio: Conroy Kydd, Rebecca Lewis, Nichole Mancone-Fisher, Martha Salinger, Amber Smallwood, Tammy Shoemaker, Kimberly Tate

Core Curriculum Committee: Sergio Espinosa, Chair
Bonnie Boardman, Kim Breuer, Shelly Christie, Minerva Cordero, Donald Gatzke, Theresa Jorgensen, Meagan Rogers, Seiichiro Tanizaki, Allison Tomlinson, Ex-officio: Rebecca Lewis, Amber Smallwood

University Tenure and Promotion Committee: Zeynip Celik, Raymond Elliott, Kathryn Holliday, Frank Lu, Guojon Liao, Vijay Pilal, Ben Srinidhi, Maria Trache, Beth Wright, Jingsong Zhou, Ex-officio: Jackie Fay, James Grover

Staff Committees

Staff Advisory Council: Alicia Gill, Chair
Margie Jackymack, Erin Townsend, Christina Macias, Sandra Bell, Joel Box Johnathan Carroll, Rosalinda Gloria, Duane Grove, Mark Harris, Kendra Hartness, Shahab Lawrence, Toni Minter, Bruce OKeefe, Alyssa Petty, Dalia Dansoval, Teddy Scurlock,Sean Stewart, Julia Nowik, Hilary Green, Jimmie Walker, David Prestianni, Candice Beckman, KJ Jacobson Carla Monk, Kim Bennett, Denise Cobbs, Rachel Jenkins, Elvira Smith, Tahanee Mannings, Jennifer Hill, J. Carter, Nova Coates, Carole Coleman, David Davis, Ashley Priest, Holly Zander, Emmanuel Garcia, Tammy Williams, Elizabeth Webb, Carol Yao, Trinka Christensen, Heather Scalf

Reporting to the President: General University Committees

Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (formerly Status of Women and Minorities): *Committee information to be updated*

Employee Wellness Committee: Eunice Currie, Chair
*Committee information to be updated soon*

UTA Veterans Advisory Committee: James Kumm, Chair
Chair Becky Baird, Lee Banda, Paul Beaulieu, Aaron Brown, Tom Christie, Cheryl Donaldson, Melissa Fielding, Douglas Garner, R. Stephen Gibbs, Jerry Hubbard, Douglas Klahr, James Kumm, Rebecca Neilson, Luis Rosado, Stan Seat, Jeffrey Seidel, Kevin Smith, Lisa Thompson, Antwan Williams, Kristine Witkowski

Reporting to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Associate Deans : Pranesh Aswath, Chair
Myrtle Bell, Casey Graham Brown, Suzanne Byke, Wendy J Casper, Dan Cavanagh, Paul Componation (interim), Minerva Cordero, Kathryn M Daniel, Gautam Das, Rebecca Deen (interim) ,Paul Fadel, Greg Frazier, Jorge F Jaramillo, Erick C Jones, David M Keller, Douglas M Klahr, Diane B Mitschke, Laura D Mydlarz, Lynn Peterson, Daniel Robinson, Debra J Woody

Conflict of Interest Committee: Pranesh Aswath, Chair
*Committee information to be updated soon*

Health Professions Advisory Committee: Sandy Hobart, Chair
Xavier Aranda, Blake Carpenter, Libby Carroll, Rebekah Chojnacki, Kenyatta Dawson, Samantha Dirks, Angela Dougall, Alex Ferracuti, Andrew Gardner, Erica Gott, Kathy Gutierrez, Greg Hale, Tim Henry, Amanda Houdashell, Lauren Jones, Leighann Lewis, Valerie Martinez, Emily Milam, Alejandro Moreno, Anna Niemeyer, Amanda Olsen, Jimmy Rogers, Megan Vargas, Malgosia Wilk-Blaszczak, Laura Wolf, Camry Woodward

Institutional Biosafety Committee: *Committee information will be updated soon

Institutional Review Board: *Committee information will be updated soon

Library Appeals Panel: Jennifer Cowley, Chair
Panos Shiakolas, Bill Ickes, Susan Justice, Maxine Davis, Cy Choi, Gerald Saxon, Dana Owens, Kevin Sloan

Program Review Committee: Pranesh Aswath, Chair
*Committee information will be updated soon

Radiation Safety Committee: Jaehoon Yu, Chair
Paul Chippindale, Subhrangsu Mandal, Kirstin Morningstar, Linda I. Perrotti, Laura Warren

University Academic Advising Committee: Aaron Brown, Chair
Eric Bolsterli, Bobbie Brown, Casey Brown, Candice Calhoun Butts, Cheryl Donaldson, Alex Ferracuti, Patrice Green, Greg Hale, Ryan Hamzeh, Jack Henderson, Kirsten Jakowitsch, Charles Johnson, Lynne Kinnan, Douglas Klahr, Teaira Little, Emily Milam, Shelly Parker, Lynn Peterson

University Research Committee: Wendy Casper and Rebecca Deen, Co-Chairs
Ann Cavallo (ex officio), Eileen Clements, Minerva Cordero, Gautam Das, Paul Fadel, Jeremy Forsberg, Jim Grover, Doug Klahr, Kimberly Mayer, Daniel Robinson, Katherine Sanchez, Jon Weidanz

Reporting to the Vice President for Administrative and Campus Operations

Food Service Advisory Committee: *Committee information to be updated soon*

Traffic and Parking Appeals Panel: Greg Hladik, Chair
Nova Coates, Kelian Dawson, Cheryl Donaldson, Katherine Huestis, Antoinette Nelson, Devon Peralta, Mary Reid, Melissa Sanders, Ann Serrano, Zachary Welborn, Holly Woods

University Center Advisory Committee: David Albart , Chair
Carla Amaro-Jimenez, Cheryl Donaldson, A Haji-Sheikh, Don Lange, Kevin Porter, Sanjiv Sabherwal, Barbara Shipman, Cassandra Smith

University Parking Committee: John Hall, Chair
Demarice Bowling, William Gunn, Greg Hladik, David Hayden, Margie Jackymack, Kim Lemaux, Mike McCord, Bill Poole, Jeff Johnson Goutam Kolla, Bethany Clinton, Sandon Fernandes, Jordan Joiner, Garret Martin, Roman Vasquez

Space Acquisition and Renovation Committee: John Hall, Chair Pranesh Aswath, Peter Crouch, Jackie Fay, Amelia Firsching (ex-officio), Jim Grover, Troy Johnson, Don Lange, Lisa Nagy, Ashley Purgason

Reporting to the Vice President For Student Affairs

Advisory Committee on Student Affairs: Lisa Nagy, Chair
Ceil Flores, Souvik Roy, Jandel Crutchfield, David Diltz, Shelley Wigley, Maria Trache, Kelsey Childress

Commencement Committee (Steering Team): Pranesh Aswath, Chair
Lori Norris, Lalita Thompson, Stephanie McAlpine, Tracey Faulkinbury, Rebekah Chojnacki, Ryan Hamzeh, Tammy Shoemaker, Jeff Davis, Debra Harrison, Mary Findley, Cindy Wilder, Tamra Rains, Gina Gonzalez-Wilson, Cheryl Donaldson

Committee on Student Organizations: Lisa Nagy, Chair
Jim Williams, Sandra Laird, Darlene Hunter

Student Publications Committee: Lisa Nagy, Chair
Linda Barasch, Qing Lin, Susan Justice, Alan Cannon, Erika Pribanic-Smith, Leaf Zhang, Kate Holliday