Faculty Senate
Purpose and membership
The College of Education Faculty Senate:
- Acts as COE Curriculum Committee
- Holds elections for COE representatives on committees
- Advocates for the faculty
- Advises the Dean
- Creates ad-hoc committees to address specific issues
COE Faculty Senate Membership
David Hernandez-Saca, Co-Chair
Special Education
Term Ends: Spring 2023
Jacob Reed, Co-Chair
Kinesiology
Term Ends: Spring 2025
Leigh Zeitz
At-Large
Curriculum and Instruction (C&I)
Term Ends: Spring 2025
Jim Stichter
At-Large
Teaching
Term Ends: Spring 2025
Dana Atwood-Blaine
C&I
Term Ends: Spring 2023
Jacob Reed
Kinesiology
Term Ends: Spring 2024
Shelly Bromwich
Teaching
Term Ends: Spring 2025
Tricia Schrage
Health, Recreation and Community Services (HRCS)
Term Ends: Spring 2023
(Alternate: Michele Devlin)
Theophile Muhayimana
Educational Psychology, Foundations and Leadership Studies (EPFLS)
Term Ends: Spring 2024
Shelley Price-Williams
EPFLS
Term Ends: Spring 2024
Ex-Officio:
Colleen Mulholland, Dean
Oksana Grybovych Haferman, Associate Dean
Megan Holbach, Administrative Assistant (Minutes)
COE Faculty Senate representatives on university committees:
University Faculty Senate: Megan Balong, Teaching, and Karla Krueger, C&I
Student Academic Appeals Board (SAAB): Kenneth Hayes, EPFLS
University Graduate Council: Mason Kuhn, C&I
Intercollegiate Academics Advisory Council (IAAC): Tim Gilson, EPFLS
University Curriculum Committee (UCC): Mark Hecimovich, HRCS
Faculty Senate Nominating Committee: Karen Breitbach, Teaching


COE Faculty Awards
Each year the COE Faculty Senate recognizes college faculty for their accomplishments. Earning awards announced fall 2022 were:
- COE Teaching Award for 2020-21: David Schmid, Educational Psychology, Foundations and Leadership Studies, and Karla Krueger, Curriculum and Instruction
- COE Teaching Award for 2021-22: Magda Galloway, Curriculum and Instruction
- COE Service Award: Susan Roberts-Dobie, Health, Recreation and Community Services
- COE Dean's Diversity and Equity Award: Theo Muhayimana
University Awards
Several university awards are opportunities to nominate yourself or fellow faculty to recognize achievements in teaching, research and service. For all but the Lubker award, the process begins by submitting nomination forms to the COE Faculty Senate chair(s). The COE Senate consults with the Dean on nominations submitted by department heads for the Lubker award.