SENATE: From the Senate Office


Under the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published under that rule:

To: Members of the Standing Faculty

From: Larry Gross, Chair

Nominations for Offices Requested

In accordance with the Rules of the Faculty Senate you are invited to suggest candidates for the posts and terms stated below, with supporting letters if desired. Candidates' names should be submitted promptly to John Sabini, Chair of the Senate Nominating Committee by telephone at (215) 898-5247 or by e-mail to sabini@cattell.psych.upenn.edu.

The following posts are to be filled for 2001-2002:

Chair-elect:

  • (Incumbent: David B. Hackney)

Secretary-elect:

  • (Incumbent: Edward L. Rubin)

Four At-large Members of the Senate Executive Committee (3-yr term)

  • (Incumbents: Pedro Ponte-Castaneda, John Richetti, Therese Richmond, Warren D. Seider)

One At-large Member of the Senate Executive Committee (1-yr term)

  • (Incumbent: Anita Allen Castellitto)

Two Assistant Professor Members of the Senate Executive Committee (2-yr term)

  • (Incumbents: Barbara Savage, Barbara von Schlegall)

Three Members of the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (3-yr term)

  • (Incumbents: David B. Brownlee, Howard Lesnick, Daniel D. Perlmutter)

Three Members of the Senate Committee on Conduct (2-yr term)

  • (Incumbents: Joan F. Goodman, M. Susan Lindee, Edward R. Thornton)

Two Members of the Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (3-yr term)

  • (Incumbents: Erling E. Boe, Richard E. Kihlstrom)

Nominating Committee Elected

The Senate Executive Committee's slate of nominees for the Senate Nominating Committee was circulated to the Senate Membership on November 14, 2000. No additional nominations by petition have been received within the prescribed time. Therefore, according to the Senate Rules, the Executive Committee's slate is declared elected.

Those elected are:

  • J. Scott Armstrong (prof marketing)
  • Haim Bau (prof mechanical engineering)
  • Julie Fairman (asst prof nursing)
  • Peter J. Freyd (prof mathematics)
  • John Sabini (prof psychology) chair
  • Kim Lane Scheppelle (prof law)
  • Irving Shapiro (prof biochemistry/dental)
  • Susan Weiss (prof microbiology/medicine)
  • Barbie Zelizer (assoc prof communication)


Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 17, January 9, 2001

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