FAS-SEAS Senate Executive Council:
Chair: Mark Solomon, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Deputy Chair: Marijeta Bozovic, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, with secondary appointments in Film and Media Studies and WGSS
Members:
Beverly Gage, Professor of History
*Alessandro Gomez (spring only), Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Maria Piñango, Professor of Linguistics
Rebecca Toseland, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Director of Research Support in the Tobin Center for Economic Policy
*Meg Urry (fall only), Professor of Physics
Paul Van Tassel, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering
The Executive Council calls meetings, determines the agenda of the FAS-SEAS Senate, appoints committees to assist with the FAS-SEAS Senate’s work, and organizes elections in consultation with the elections and nominations committee. The Executive Council serves as liaison to the administration, and has the power to act on behalf of the Senate in matters arising between meetings. It also acts as the Senate’s By-laws Committee, examining and reviewing Senate rules, procedures, and by-laws at least once per year, and recommending changes to the full Senate. The Executive Council meets approximately once per month, roughly two weeks in advance of Senate meetings, though may meet more often or at other times as necessary.
The Executive Council includes seven members of the FAS and SEAS, six of whom are tenured faculty members (two from each of the four divisions) and one of whom is an untenured or non-ladder faculty member.
The chair of the Executive Council runs the meetings of the Senate and is an ex officio member of all the Senate’s committees. The secretary/deputy chair prepares minutes of meetings, made available in electronic form for all members of the FAS-SEAS Senate. If the chair is absent, the secretary/deputy chair assumes the duties of the chair.
The 25 member-elected Senate represents faculty from all ranks and divisions within the Faculty of Arts and Science and SEAS at Yale. 2015-2016 marked the Senate’s inaugural year as the chief representative and voice for the Yale FAS. While many universities have maintained faculty senates for many decades, the FAS-SEAS Senate is a fairly new contribution to faculty governance at Yale. The Senate was created in order to provide a more organized voice for the FAS and SEAS faculty to highlight and investigate issues of FAS and SEAS concern, and to foster greater communication between the members of FAS and SEAS, and the Yale administration.
*Note that due to past EC service, Meg Urry is limited to one semester. She will serve on the Executive Council during the fall 2024, and Alessandro Gomez will serve in the winter/spring 2025