Assembly & Senate Elections

Current Elections

The next regularly scheduled Assembly elections will be for Senate Officers and Graduate Studies Standing Committee representatives in April 2025.

 

 

Past Elections

*Monica Amadio, BUSN 

*Lauren Balasco, SOBL

*Jacob Camacho, ARHU 

*Vasundhara Chakraborty, BUSN 

*Jiajin (Sandy) Chen, BUSN 

Petar Dobrev, BUSN 

*Joshua Duntley, SOBL

*Philip Eaton, NAMS

*Christian Ehiobuche, BUSN

*Betsy Erbaugh, SOBL

*Helana Girgis, SOBL

*Geoffrey Gust, GENS

*Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, SOBL

*Mina Jafarijoo, BUSN

*Colleen Kase, SOBL

*Daniel Ki, NAMS

*Zheng Li, BUSN

*Jennifer Martin, NAMS

*Aaron Moss, ARHU

Quynh Nguyen, BUSN

*Monika Pawlowska, HLTH

*Larider Ruffin, HLTH

*Thierry Saintine, GENS

*Aakash Taneja, BUSN

*Christine Tartaro, SOBL

Pu Tian, BUSN

*Joseph Trout, NAMS

*Beverly Vaughn, ARHU

*Helen Wei, BUSN

*Kerrin Wolf, BUSN

*Jongbok Yi, ARHU

Yuli Zhang, BUSN

(elected candidates indicated with *)
Committee Candidate(s)
Academic Policies *Emma Witt, NAMS
Academic Programs and Planning

*Naz Onel, BUSN

Administration and Finance *Petar Dobrev, BUSN
General Studies *John O鈥橦ara, GENS
Information Technology & Media Services

*Monica Amadio, BUSN

Akash Taneja, BUSN

Library

*Christy Goodnight, BUSN

Research & Professional Development *Justin Ostrofsky, SOBL
Student Affairs

*Robert Blaskiewicz, GENS

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Amendments ratified on November 3, 2023 鈥 95 ballots cast:  93 Yes, 2 No

At the meeting on October 20, 2023, the Faculty Senate voted to ratify several amendments to the constitution.  A summary of the amendments along with the constitution including the proposed amendments/changes highlighted in red is linked below. The next step in this process is ratification by the Faculty Assembly.  The balloting for ratification will occur the week of October 30 through electronic voting.  Ratification of the amendments require an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Faculty Assembly vote.  Article XI of the Faculty Constitution outlines the full amendment procedure. 

Summary of Amendments & Constitution with Proposed Amendments Highlighted

The Committees on Academic Policies and Academic Programs and Planning each have two graduate studies represenatives elected by the Faculty at-large.  Polls will open at noon on Monday, April 17 and remain open for voting until noon on Friday, April 21.  Instructions for accessing the ballot will be emailed to all Faculty on Monday, April 17.

Candidates for Graduate Represenative to Academic Policies

*George DeFeis, BUSN

*Kimberly Furphy, HLTH 

Candidates for Graduate Represenative to Academic Programs
and Planning

*Amit Mukherjee, BUSN

*Ye Ning, BUSN

Submitted Candidate Profiles 

(elected candidates indicated with *)
Candidates for Senate President

Michael Law (NAMS)*

Manish Madan (SOBL)

Brian Tyrrell (BUSN)

Candidates for Senate Vice-President

Norma Boakes (EDUC)*

Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen (SOBL)

Candidates for Senate Secretary Kristen Hallock-Waters (NAMS)*

Submitted Candidate Profiles 

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Luis Garcia, HLTH

Kristen Hallock-Waters, NAMS*

Mariana Smtih, ARHU

(elected candidates indicated with *)

 

Monica Amadio, BUSN*

Hyeoncheol (Charlie) Baik, BUSN*

Lauren Balasco, SOBL*

Guy Barbato, NAMS*

Muntakim Choudhury, BUSN

Joe Cirio, GENS*

George DeFeis,  BUSN

Petar Dobrev, BUSN

Arleen Gonzalez, SOBL*

Geoffrey Gust, GENS*

Jessica Hallagan, NAMS*

Kristen Hallock-Waters, NAMS*

Jung Han, BUSN*

Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, SOBL*    

Mina Jafarijoo, BUSN*

Daniel Ki, NAMS*

Michael Law, NAMS*

Zheng Li, BUSN*

Aaron Moss, ARHU*

Quynh Nguyen, BUSN*

Matthew Olson, NAMS*

Barry Palatnik, BUSN*

Monika Pawlowska, HLTH*

Larider Ruffin, HLTH*

Thierry Saintine, GENS*

Christine Tartaro, SOBL*

Joseph Trout, NAMS*

Beverly Vaughn, ARHU*

Kerrin Wolf, BUSN*

Yuli Zhang, BUSN

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Submitted Candidate Profiles

 

Committee Candidate(s)
Academic Policies Emma Witt, SOBL*
Academic Programs and Planning

Noel Criscione, BUSN

Elizabeth Pollock, NAMS*

Administration and Finance Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, SOBL*
General Studies John O鈥橦ara, GENS*
Information Technology & Media Services

Helen Wei, BUSN*

Adam Aguiar, NAMS

Library

Vasundhara Chakraborty, BUSN*

Eric Hoyt, SOBL

Research & Professional Development Justin Ostrofsky, SOBL*
Student Affairs

Thierry Saintine, GENS*

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Submitted Candidate Profiles

Candidates for Chair of the Committee on Research & Professional Development

*Justin Ostrofsky (SOBL)

Submitted Candidate Profiles

(elected candidates indicated with *)
Candidates for Chair of the Committee on Academic Policies

*Emma Witt (NAMS)

Submitted Candidate Profiles

(elected candidates indicated with *)

The Committees on Academic Policies and Academic Programs and Planning each have two graduate studies represenatives elected by the Faculty at-large.  Polls will open at noon on Monday, April 19 and remain open for voting until noon on Friday, April 23.  Instructions for accessing the ballot will be emailed to all Faculty on Monday, April 19.

Candidates for Graduate Represenative to Academic Policies

Christian Ehiobuche (BUSN)*

Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen (SOBL)*

Barry Palatnik (BUSN)

Candidates for Graduate Represenative to Academic Programs
and Planning

Robert Barney (SOBL)*

Amit Mukherjee (BUSN)*

Dan Tulino (EDUC)

Submitted Candidate Profiles 

(elected candidates indicated with *)

 

Candidates for Senate President *Manish Madan (SOBL)
Candidates for Senate Vice-President

*Norma Boakes (EDUC)

Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen (SOBL)

Candidates for Senate Secretary *Jack Lewis (SOBL)  

Submitted Candidate Profiles 

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Amendments ratified on May 8, 2020 鈥 121 ballots cast:  120 Yes, 1 No

At the Senate meeting on April 17, 2020 the Senate voted to ratify several amendments to the Constitution.  A summary of the amendments is below along with a marked-up copy of the Constitution and a clean copy with the proposed changes.  The next step in this process is ratification by the Faculty Assembly.  The balloting for ratification will occur the week of May 4 through electronic voting.  Ratification of the amendments require an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Faculty Assembly vote.  Article XI of the Faculty Constitution outlines the full amendment procedure. 

Constitution with Proposed Amendments (Markup)

Constitution with Proposed Amendments (Clean copy)


SUMMARY OF PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

The Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate proposed three primary amendments, as well as several minor housekeeping amendments, to the Faculty Constitution.  These amendments were ratified by the Senate on April 17, 2020.  In the summary below, the article and section numbers refer to the numbering in the proposed amended Constitution, not in the current Constitution.

 

Three Primary Amendments 

Definition of 鈥淔aculty鈥: Art. II, sec 1. The amendment would broaden the definition of 鈥淔aculty鈥 to include those holding the rank of Distinguished Professor and to the newly created Non-Tenure Track Teaching Position (NTTP).   Distinguished Professor was a fairly new rank when the constitution was originally drafted and was not included.  The newly created NTTP positions need to be added in order for faculty in those positions to participate in faculty governance.

Defining non-Faculty ex-officio members of Standing Committees as non-voting members: Art VII, sec 2.  Language here has been changed to make non-faculty ex-officio members of committees non-voting members. By Robert鈥檚 Rules ex-officio members are voting members unless the constitution or by-laws of on organization specify otherwise.  This change has been made based on feedback from standing committee chairs.  This also reflects the fact that many ex-officio administrators serve on administrative committees (i.e. Deans and/or Provost鈥檚 Council) that also provide recommendations on issues and thus have the opportunity to vote in those roles.

Adding 鈥渙r designee鈥 for several ex-officio individuals serving on the Senate or Standing Committees: Art. V, sec 2; Art. VII, sec 2; Art. VIII, secs 15 a, b, c, d.  This amendment would codify past practice where those in certain positions (Union President, Provost, etc.) serving as ex-officio members of the Senate, Executive Committee, or Standing Committees could designate an individual to serve in their place.  This is stated explicitly in some places in the constitution and not in others.  This amendment makes the language more consistent throughout for these types of positions.

 

Housekeeping Amendments

Changing 鈥淩ichard 老司机福利社 College of New Jersey鈥 to 鈥溊纤净@玮.  The name of the institution has been changed throughout the document.

Changing 鈥淐ollege鈥 to 鈥淯niversity鈥. All instances of 鈥淐ollege鈥 have been changed to 鈥淯niversity鈥 to reflect the current status of the institution. 

References to the 鈥淪chool of Graduate Studies鈥 have been deleted: Art. II, sec. 7.  The School of Graduate and Continuing Studies no longer exists.

Administrative title changes to reflect current position titles: Art. VIII, sec. 15a, b, c, e, f.
Some ex-officio titles have changed due to administrative reorganization.  These changes have already been made in practice under the authority granted to the Executive committee when administrative reorganizations occur, but since other amendments are being made at this time it makes sense to change them to reflect current practice.

Making election procedures consistent: Art IX, sec. 5:  This change defines the winner of Assembly elections as the candidate with the highest number of votes.  This makes the section consistent with Section 6 and aligns with past practice.  The change avoids any issues with the need for multiple balloting in Assembly elections.

 

Mark Adelung, HLTH

*Lauren Balasco, SOBL

*Norma Boakes, EDUC

*David Burdick, SOBL

*Sujoy Chakraborty, BUSN

*Joe Cirio, GENS

*Betsy Erbaugh SOBL

*Jessica Favorito, NAMS

*Ian Finnimore, SOBL

*Arleen Gonzalez, SOBL

*Christy Goodnight, LIBR

*Geoffrey Gust, GENS

*Kristen Hallock-Waters, NAMS

*Beau Hancock, ARHU

*Phillip Hernandez ,HLTH

*Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, SOBL    

*Mina Jafarijoo, BUSN

Darwin Jones, BUSN

*Elma Kaiser, SOBL

*Wooseok Ki, NAMS

*Michael Law, NAMS

*Jack Lewis, SOBL

*Zheng Li, BUSN

*Ruibin  Lu, SOBL

Quynh Nguyen, BUSN

*Justin Ostrofsky, SOBL

*Monika Pawlowska, HLTH

*Shanthi Rajaraman, NAMS

*Larider Ruffin, HLTH

*Thierry Saintine, GENS

*Emmanuel Small, BUSN

*Christine Tartaro, SOBL

*Joseph Trout, NAMS

Kerrin Wolf, BUSN

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Committee Candidate(s)
Academic Policies *Deeanna Button, SOBL
Academic Programs and Planning Sujoy Chakraborty, BUSN
*Elizabeth Pollock, NAMS
Thierry Saintine, GENS
Administration and Finance *Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, SOBL
General Studies *John O鈥橦ara, GENS
Information Technology & Media Services *Helen Wei, BUSN
Library *Vasundhara Chakraborty, BUSN
Research & Professional Development *Christy Goodnight, LIBR
Student Affairs

*Emmanuel Small, BUSN 

(elected candidates indicated with *)

 

       Arleen Gonzalez, SOBL       

      

        *Kerrin Wolf, BUSN       

(elected candidates indicated with *)

The Committees on Academic Policies and Academic Programs and Planning each have two graduate stuides represenatives elected by the Faculty at-large.  Polls will open at noon on Monday, April 15 and remain open for voting until noon on Friday, April 19.  Instructions for accessing the ballot will be emailed to all Faculty on Monday, April 15.

Candidates for Graduate Represenative to Academic Policies

*Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen (SOBL)

*Sequetta Sweet (EDUC)

Candidates for Graduate Represenative to Academic Programs
and Planning

*Robert Barney (SOBL)

*Carla Enriquez (HLTH)

Phillip Hernandez (HLTH)

Shaoping Zhao (BUSN)

 Submitted Candidate Profiles 

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Candidates for Senate President *Laura Zucconi (ARHU)
Candidates for Senate Vice-President *Manish Madan (SOBL)
Candidates for Senate Secretary *James Avery (SOBL)  

Submitted Officer Candidate Profiles         

(elected candidates indicated with *)

Mark Adelung, HLTH Kory Olson, ARHU
Norma Boakes, EDUC Justin Ostrofsky, SOBL
David Burdick, SOBL Monica Pawlowska, HLTH
Betsy Erbaugh, SOBL Sreelekha Prakash, HLTH
Arleen Gonzalez, SOBL Lori Prol, HLTH
Christy Goodnight, LIBR Shanthi Rajaraman, NAMS
Douglas Harvey, EDUC Lisa Rosner, ARHU
Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, SOBL Amee Shah, HLTH
Elma Kaiser, SOBL Emmauel Small, BUSN
Wooseok Ki, NAMS Christine Tartaro, SOBL
Ruffin Larider, HLTH Joseph Trout, NAMS
Michael Law, NAMS Kerrin Wolf, BUSN
Jack Lewis, SOBL Chenyan Xu, BUSN
Manish Madan, SOBL  

Submitted At-Large Senator Candidate Profiles         

PDF List of At-Large Candidates

(all nominated candidates were elected)

 
Committee Candidate(s)
Academic Policies *Deeanna Button, SOBL
Academic Programs and Planning *Douglas Harvey, EDUC
Administration and Finance *Arleen Gonzalez, SOBL
General Studies *Elizabeth Pollock, NAMS
Information Technology & Media Services *Manish Madan, SOBL
Library *David Lechner, LIBR
Research & Professional Development *David King, ARHU
Student Affairs Richard Miller, GENS
  *Emmanuel Small, BUSN

Submitted Committee Chair Candidate Profiles      

PDF List of Committee Chair Candidates

(elected candidates indicated with *)