COUNCIL COMMITTEES 2000-2001

Council Committeees: 2000-2001

Membership of University Council


Membership of the University Council, 2000-2001 [BACK TO INDEX]

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee shall consist of the president of the University, the provost, the chair, the chair-elect and the past chair of the Faculty Senate, the chair of the Undergraduate Assembly, the chair of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the chair of the Penn Professional Staff Assembly and the chair of the A-3 Assembly. Drawn from the Council membership, there shall be in addition four faculty members, one graduate/professional student, and one undergraduate student elected by the respective governing bodies, as well as one additional member of the Penn Professional Staff Assembly, and one additional member of the A-3 Assembly, each elected by their repre-sentative assemblies. The chair of the Faculty Senate shall be the chair of the Steering Committee. In the absence of the chair, or at the request of the chair, the chair-elect shall serve as chair of the Steering Committee. The Council moderator will be an official observer at meetings of the Steering Committee. The secretary of the Council shall serve as secretary of the Steering Committee. Members of the Steering Committee may attend the meetings of Council committees.

--Council Bylaws 

Members of Steering

  • Robert Barchi
  • Michael Bassik
  • Regina Cantave
  • Arthur Dunham
  • Larry Gross, Chair
  • Kyle Farley
  • Jonathan Glick
  • David B. Hackney, Chair-elect
  • Sarah Kagan
  • Phoebe S. Leboy, Past Chair
  • Anna Loh
  • Karen Pinckney
  • Gregory Possehl
  • Judith Rodin
  • Edward Rubin
  • Adam Sherr
  • David Simon

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Membership of the Council

Faculty: Forty-five members of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate. The Faculty Senate shall insure that each faculty is represented and that at least three assistant professors serve on the Council. The members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee who are members of the Council shall otherwise be chosen in accordance with the rules of the Faculty Senate.

One full-time lecturer and one full-time member of the research faculty to be selected to serve two-year terms by vote of the Steering Committee from a slate consisting of the five lecturers, and the five members of the research faculty receiving the largest number of nominations by lecturers and members of the research faculty. If the Steering Committee receives fewer than five nominations for either group, additional nominations shall be solicited from the constituency representatives of the Senate Executive Committee.

Administration and Staff: Eleven administrative officers, including the president, the provost, and nine members of the administration to be appointed annually by the president, at least five of whom shall be deans of faculties.

Two elected representatives of the Penn Professional Staff Assembly. One elected representative of the Librarians Assembly. Two elected representatives of the A-3 Assembly.

Students: Fifteen graduate and professional students elected as members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly shall insure that, to the extent possible, each school is represented. The members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly who are members of the Council shall otherwise be chosen in accordance with the rules of the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly.

Fifteen undergraduate students elected as members of the Undergraduate Assembly. The Undergraduate Assembly shall insure that, to the extent possible, each undergraduate school is represented. The members of Undergraduate Assembly who are members of the Council shall otherwise be chosen in accordance with the rules of the Undergraduate Assembly.

One elected representative of the United Minorities Council.

Presiding Officer and Moderator: The president of the University is the presiding officer of the Council. Each year, with the advice of the Steering Committee and the consent of the Council, the president shall appoint a moderator of the Council, who shall become a non-voting member of the Council. The president, or in the absence of the president, the provost, shall open each meeting and shall normally turn the conduct of the meeting over to the moderator.

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Members of the Administration

  • Robert Barchi
  • Beverly Edwards
  • Michael Fitts
  • Raymond Fonseca
  • William Gipson
  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson
  • Tom King
  • Samuel Preston
  • Judith Rodin
  • Neville Strumpf
  • Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum

Elected by the Faculty at Large

(Faculty Senate Officers Are Indicated)

  • Michael Awkward
  • Anita Allen Castellitto
  • Larry Gross, Chair
  • Stephen Gluckman
  • David B. Hackney, Chair-elect
  • Erika Holzbaur
  • Sarah Kagan, Secretary
  • Phoebe S. Leboy, Past Chair
  • Jon M. Lindstrom
  • Chung-Pei Ma*
  • Ann Mayer*
  • Pedro Ponte-Castañeda*
  • Martin Pring*, Past Secretary
  • John Richetti
  • Therese Richmond
  • Warren D. Seider
  • Tukufu Zuberi


Faculty Senate offices are italicized. Asterisk [*] indicates observer status.

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Elected by Faculty Constituency

Term Expires May 2001

1 Joseph Turow
3 Gregory L. Possehl
5 Arthur E. Dunham
7 Jeremy McInerney
9 Robert Perelman
11 Guy R. Welbon
13 Karl von Vorys
15 Ivar Berg*
17 Erling Boe*
19 Wen K. Shieh
21 Frank I. Goodman*
23 Gregory S. Kopf
25 David R. Manning
27 DuPont Guerry
29 Judith Aronchick
31 Roberta G. Sands
33 Jill Beech*
35 Robert P. Inman

Term Expires May 2002

2 Daniel K. Richter
4 Jonathan Block
6 Donald H. Voet
8 Kenneth I. Wolpin*
10 James F. Ross
12 Robert Hollebeek
14 M. Frank Norman*
16 Sherrill L. Adams
18 Noam Lior
20 Anthony R. Tomazinis
22 Jay Hess
24 James C. Saunders
26 Rob Roy MacGregor
28 Marc Yudkoff
30 Susan Gennaro
32 David McDevitt*
34 To be named
36 J. Scott Armstrong

Assistant Professors

Term Expires May 2001

  • Barbara Savage
  • Barbara von Schlegall*

Term Expires May 2002

  • Mary C. Pugh

Junior and Research Faculty

Term Expires May 2001

  • Arvids Ziedonis

Term Expires May 2002

  • Michael Robinson

Librarians Assembly

  • Bob Persing

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PPSA

  • Anna Loh
  • Adam Sherr

A-3 Assembly

  • Regina Cantave
  • Karen Pinckney

United Minorities Council

  • Jerome Byam

ROTC Rep.

  • Col. John A. Clauer, USMC*

Parlimentarian

  • Mark Frazier Lloyd *

Moderator

  • William Harris *

Secretary

  • Leslie Laird Kruhly *

Undergraduate Students

  • Michael Bassik (COL '01)
  • Eric Chen (EAS '03)
  • Kimberly Dobson (COL '02)
  • Jonathan Glick (WH '01)
  • Jed Gross (COL '02)
  • Ethan Kay (WH ' 03)
  • Thomas Kisimbi (NUR '01)
  • James Ku (WH '02)
  • David Levin (COL '03)
  • Jason Levy (COL '04)
  • Ryan Little (COL '01)
  • Malhar Saraiya (WH/EAS '01)
  • Aaron Short (COL '03)
  • Molly Siems (COL '03)
  • Rebecca Tracy (COL '03)

Graduate/Professional Students

  • Kenyon Brewer (VET)
  • Evis Cama (GAS)
  • Marc Cohen (GAS)
  • Aveek Das (GEP)
  • Eric Eisenstein (WHP)
  • Kyle Farley (GAS)
  • Autumn Grice (SSW)
  • Hillary Holmes (LAW)
  • Shan-Wei Ko (NUG)
  • Christopher Leahy (LAW)
  • Christopher Monte (GAS)
  • Lance Rogers (LAW)
  • David Simon (WHG)
  • Diana Swartz (LAW)
  • one to be named

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Council Committees, 2000-2001

Admissions and Financial Aid

Chair: Abba Krieger (statistics)

Faculty:

  • Dennis DeTurck (math)
  • David B. Freiman (radiol/med)
  • Robert F. Giegengack (earth & environ sci)
  • Daniel A. Hammer (bioengr)
  • Katahy McCauley (nursing)
  • Arnold Rosoff (legal studies)
  • Warren Seider (chem engr)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Evis Cama (GAS)
  • Julia Kim (WHG)
  • Diana Swartz (LAW)

Undergraduate students:

  • Paul Gulesserian (WH '03)
  • Lucia Leone (COL '03)
  • Kristen Miller (COL '02)

PPSA:

  • Terri White (acad support prog)

Ex officio:

  • Terry Conn (asst vice provost Univ life)
  • Suzanne Kauffman Depuyt (Wharton)
  • Carol Ladden (nursing)
  • Sharon Pepe (dir, Penn Plan)
  • William Schilling (dir, student fin svcs)
  • Patti Scullin (SAS)
  • Willis Stetson (dean, admissions)
  • John Vohs (SEAS)

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Bookstores

Chair: Daniel Raff (mgmt)

Faculty:

  • Warren Breckman (history)
  • Sarah Gordon (law)
  • Ewa Morawska (sociol)
  • John Richetti (English)
  • Karen B. Wilkerson (nursing)

Graduate/professional students:

  • John Barret (WHG)
  • Jessica Pitts (NUG)

Undergraduate students:

  • Steven Herbst (NUR '04)
  • Meredith Regan (NUR '04)

PPSA:

  • Jennifer Conway (Penn Humanities Forum)
  • Bob Persing (Van Pelt Library)
  • Laura Waldron (Univ of Penn Press)

A-3:

  • Danielle Kradin (prov)

Ex officio:

  • Lee Nunery (vp, bus dev)

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Communications

Chair: David Smith (anesthesia/med)

Faculty:

  • Ellis Golub (biochem/dental)
  • Steven Kimbrough (oper & info mgmt)
  • David Mozely (radiol & psych)
  • Martin Pring (physiol/med)
  • Edward Rubin (law)
  • Dana Tomlin (land arch)
  • Lyle H. Ungar (CIS)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Aveek Das (GEP)
  • Song Li (WHG)

Undergraduate students:

  • Jennifer Denlow (COL '02)
  • Maria McClay (COL '01)

PPSA:

  • Gene N. Haldeman (admissions)
  • Helma Weeks (vet school)

A-3:

  • Amy Bogdanoff (vet school)
  • Catherine Lawrence (SEAS)

Ex officio:

  • Robin Beck (deputy vice provost, info syst & comp)
  • Phyllis Holtzman (dir, communications)
  • Larry Moneta (assoc vp, campus svcs)
  • Paul Mosher (vice prov & dir, libraries)
  • Lee Nunery (vp, bus svcs)

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Community Relations

Chair: Linda Chance (Asian & Middle Eastern st)

Faculty:

  • Daniel Bogen (bioengr)
  • Lois K. Evans (nursing)
  • Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (history)
  • Jeremy McInerney (classical studies)
  • Lyn Harper Mozley (psychiatry)
  • Brian Spooner (anthro)
  • Richard Womer (pediatrics)

Graduate/professional students:

  • John Barrett (WHG)
  • Sharon Etenberg (EDP)
  • Amy Hancock (VET)

Undergraduate students:

  • Alexandra Minkovich (COL' 01)
  • Beth Rapaport (COL' 01)

PPSA:

  • Karlene Burrell-McRae (Greenfield Intercultural Ctr)
  • Jody Kolodzey (dev & alumni rels)
  • Lisa Lord (Wharton Real Estate)
  • Namrata Narain (Population Studies Ctr)

A-3:

  • Regina Cantave (ISC)
  • Karen Pinckney (med school facilities)

Ex officio:

  • Jeanne Arnold (dir, African American Resource ctr)
  • Glenn Bryan (dir, community relations)
  • Vinnie Curren (mgr,WXPN)
  • Michael Diorka (dir, recreation)
  • David Grossman (dir, Civic House)
  • Ira Harkavy (dir, Ctr for Community Partnerships)
  • Michael Rose (mng dir, Annenberg Ctr)
  • Jack Shannon (mng dir, econ dev)
  • Stafany Williams-Jones (dir, community housing)

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Facilities

Chair: John Sabini (psychology)

Faculty:

  • Eugenie Birch (city & reg plng)
  • Dawn A. Bonnell (materials sci & engr)
  • David L. Brownlee (history of art)
  • Susan Gennaro (nursing)
  • Melvyn Hammarberg (anthro)
  • James M. Larkin (education)
  • Vukan R. Vuchic (systems engr)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Alan Chun (WHG)
  • Laurie Dougherty (NUG)
  • Undergraduate students:
  • Robert Pyne (EAS' 02)
  • Josh Seeherman (EAS' 01)

PPSA:

  • Helene Lee (facil plng & oper svcs)
  • Thomas McCoy (telecommunications)
  • Laura Peller (environ health & rad safety)

A-3:

  • Paul R. Marchesano (chemistry)
  • One to be named

Ex officio:

  • Omar Blaik (vp, facility svcs)
  • Alice Nagle (chair, com for an Accessible University)
  • Ronald Sanders (registrar)

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International Programs

Chair: Harold F. Schiffman (S. Asian st)

Faculty:

  • Ted Abel (biology)
  • Sandra Barnes (anthropology)
  • Malek Kamoun (pathol & lab med)
  • Grace Kao (sociol)
  • Robert Mariano (economics)
  • Sohrab Rabii (elec engr)
  • Eric Weinberg (biology)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Aveek Das (GEP)
  • Nimish Doshi (WHG)
  • Song Li (WHG)

Undergraduate students:

  • Christian Dobre (COL' 01)
  • Jai Gurtoo (WH' 02)
  • Beth Rapaport (COL' 01)

PPSA:

  • Elizabeth Scheyder (SAS computing/math)

A-3:

  • Cerie O'Toole (human resources)

Ex officio:

  • Joyce Randolph (dir, intl prog)

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Libraries

Chair: Ellis Golub (biochem/dental)

Faculty:

  • Patricia D'Antonio (nursing)
  • Barry Eichler (Asian & Mid Eastern st) Leif Finkel (bioengr)
  • Edward Peters (history)
  • David Stern (Asian & Mid Eastern st)
  • Lilliane Weissberg (German)
  • One to be named

Graduate/professional students:

  • Elizabeth Gelfland (WHP)
  • Shafi Rahman (GEP)

Undergraduate students:

  • Dan Gonen (COL' 02)
  • Jake Kraft (COL' 03)

PPSA:

  • Barbara Grabias (Annenberg)

A-3:

  • Andrea Helzer (VPUL)

Ex officio:

  • Elizabeth Kelly (dir, Biddle Law Library)
  • Paul Mosher (vice provost & dir, libraries)

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Personnel Benefits

Chair: Charles E. Dwyer (educ)

Faculty:

  • David B. Freiman (radiol/med)
  • Hendrik Hameka (chemistry)
  • Carl Polsky (acctg)
  • Gerald F. Porter (math)
  • Cynthia Scalzi (nursing)
  • Ingrid Waldron (biology)
  • (Liaison from Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty to be named)

Graduate/professional student:

  • John Nemec (GAS)

A-1 staff:

  • Cathy DiBonaventura (ISC)
  • Michelle Taylor (dental school)
  • Jo-Ann Verrier (law school career plng & placement)

A-3:

  • Susan Russoniello (career svcs)
  • Michael Wisniewski (library acquisitions)

Ex officio:

  • Elenita Bader (dir, benefits)
  • Kenneth Campbell (comptroller)
  • John Heuer (vp, human resources)

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Pluralism

Chair: Stephen N. Dunning (religious st)

Faculty:

  • Camille Charles (sociol)
  • Julie Fairman (nursing)
  • Nabil Farhat (elec engr)
  • Howard Goldfine (microbio/med)
  • Mitchell Marcus (CIS)
  • Thomas Ricketts (philos)
  • Louis Thomas (mgmt)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Autumn Grice (SW)
  • Two to be named

Undergraduate students:

  • Eric Chen (COL' 03)
  • Sarah Feuer (COL' 03)
  • Raymond Valerio (COL' 01)

PPSA:

  • Erin Cross (lesbian gay bisexual transgender ctr)
  • Rhonda Minyard (ctr for clinical epidemiology & biostatistics)

A-3:

  • John Hogan (Biddle law lib)
  • Loretta Hauber (health education)
  • Audrey A. Smith-Bey (Afro-American st)

Ex officio:

  • Jeanne Arnold (dir, African American Resource Ctr)
  • Elena DiLapi (dir, Penn Women's Ctr)
  • Joyce Randolph (dir, intl prog)
  • Scott Reikofski (dir, fraternity/sorority affrs)
  • Bob Schoenberg (dir, lesbian gay bisexual transgender ctr)
  • Terri White (dir, academic support programs)

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Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics

Chair: Edward T. Lally (path/dental)

Faculty:

  • Steven Galetta (neurol/med)
  • Richard L. Hodinka (pediatrics)
  • Tracy McIntosh (neurosurgery/med)
  • James Mullen (medicine)
  • Warren Seider (chemical engr)
  • Craig Thompson (hemat-oncol/med)
  • Karen Wilkerson (nursing)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Shan-Wei Ko (NUG)
  • Stephanie Bloom (NUG)

Undergraduate students:

  • Calvin DaRosa (EAS' 02)
  • Aaron Short (COL' 03)

PPSA:

  • Julie Lawson (audit & compliance)
  • Ira Winston (Computing, SAS/SEAS/GSFA)

A-3:

  • Dee Stenton-Schillig (oral surgery/dental)
  • One to be named

Ex officio:

  • Steve Bilsky (dir, rec & intercollegiate athletics)
  • Jim Gardner (repr, president's office)
  • John Smolen (vice provost Univ life designee)
  • Lee Stetson (dean, admissions)

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Research

Chair: Alan Schreiber (medicine)

Faculty:

  • Rajeev Alur (computer & info science)
  • James C. Alwine (microbiology/medicine)
  • Dan Ben-Amos (Asian & Middle Eastern st)
  • Robert Boruch (educ)
  • Francisco Gonzales-Scarano (neurology/med)
  • James B. Lok (parasitology/veterinary)
  • Hermann Pfefferkorn (earth & environ science)
  • Donald A. Ringe (linguistics)
  • Bruce Shenker (path/dental)
  • Robert A. Stine (statistics)
  • Vaclav Vitek (materials sci & engr)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Sujata Bhatia (MDP)
  • John Nemec (GAS)

Undergraduate students:

  • Russel Addis (COL' 02)
  • Nishita Gupte (WH' 03)

Ex officio:

  • Peter Conn (deputy provost)
  • Andrew Rudczynski (exec dir, research svcs)

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Safety and Security

Chair: Regina Austin (law)

Faculty:

  • John Di Iulio (poli sci)
  • Vivian Gadsden (educ)
  • Karen Jehn (mgmt)
  • Ponzy Lu (chemistry)
  • David Pope (materials sci & engr)
  • Michelle Richman (Romance lang)
  • Margaret Sovie (nursing)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Kenyan Brewer (VET)
  • Daniel Gabriel (LAW)
  • Raghav Gadodia (WHG)

Undergraduate students:

  • Katherine Fillo (NUR '04)
  • Melinda Gordon (COL '03)
  • Lark Grier (COL '03)

PPSA:

  • Julie Carroll (nursing acad affairs)
  • Trish diPietrae (vet school)

A-3:

  • Tracy Macklin (med school/genetics)
  • Katrina Scott (biology)

Ex officio:

  • Jeanne Arnold (dir, African American Resource ctr)
  • Patricia Brennan (dir, special svcs)
  • Elena DiLapi (dir, Penn Women's ctr)
  • Mihaela Farcas (dir, off-campus living)
  • Robert Furniss (dir, trans & mail svcs)
  • Juana Lewis (vice provost Univ life designee)
  • Scott Reikofski (dir, fraternity/sorority affrs)
  • Thomas Seamon (vp, public safety)

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Quality of Student Life

Chair: Anthony Rostain (psychiatry)

Faculty:

  • Helen C. Davies (microbiol/med)
  • Dennis DeTurck (mathematics)
  • Zoltan Domotor (philosophy)
  • Daniel D. Perlmutter (chem engr)
  • Diane Spatz (nursing)
  • Michael Zuckerman (history)
  • One to be named

Graduate/professional students:

  • Cassandre Creswell (GAS)
  • Eric Eisenstein (WHP)
  • Chris Leahy (LAW)

Undergraduate students:

  • Nishchay Maskay (COL' 01)
  • Kristen Miller (COL' 02)
  • Brendon Taga (COL' 01)

PPSA:

  • Lisa Felix (intl prog)
  • Anne Mickle (col house prog)

Ex officio:

  • Michael Bassik (chair, UA)
  • David Brownlee (dir, College Houses & acad svcs)
  • Terry Conn (vice provost Univ life designee)
  • Kyle Farley (chair, GAPSA)
  • William Christian Gipson (Univ chaplain)

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Independent Committees

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 Disability Board

Chair: Ira Katz (psychiatry)

Faculty:

  • Charles Bosk (sociology)
  • P. J. Brennan (medicine)
  • Scott Manaker (medicine)
  • Keith Robinson (rehab med)
  • Ralph Schumacher (medicine)
  • Lorraine Tulman (nursing)
  • Arthur Whereat (emeritus medicine)

PPSA:

  • Leon Grotkowski (path & lab med)
  • Claudia Mottola (Wharton)

A-3:

  • John Hogan (Biddle law library)
  • One to be named

Ex officio:

  • Charles Dwyer (chair, Personnel Benefits Committee)

Honorary Degrees

Chair: Howard Kunreuther (OPIM)

Faculty:

  • Roger Abrahams (English)
  • Louis A. Girifalco (materials sci & engr)
  • Frank Goodman (law)
  • Michael Katz (history)
  • Ann Matter (religious st)
  • Irving Nachamkin (path & lab med)
  • Witold M. Rybczynski (architecture)

Graduate/professional students:

  • Judy Grant (NUG)
  • Kelly Schneider (WHG)

Undergraduate students:

  • Meena Fatimi (COL' 02)
  • Scott Taffet (COL' 01)  

Open Expression

Chair: Michael Zuckerman (history)

Faculty:

  • Eric Cheyfitz (English)
  • Steven Larson (emergency medicine)
  • Ann E. Moyer (history)
  • Philip Nichols (legal st)
  • Sohrab Rabii (electrical engineering)
  • Roberta Sands (social work)
  • Pamela Sankar (bioethics)

Graduate/professional:

  • Hillary Holmes (LAW)
  • Two to be named

Undergraduate students:

  • Patrick Baber (COL '02)
  • Ryan Little (COL '01)
  • One to be named

PPSA:

  • Ellen Bateman (acad affrs dent sch)
  • Joyce Watson (inst env med)

A-3:

  • Donna Arthur (law career plng & placement)

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Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 13, November 21, 2000

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