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The Organizational Meeting for the Incoming 60th Faculty Senate AY2025-2026 will be Held in Room UNION 2310 (Student Senate Chambers) on:
May 1, 2025
Chair
- Associate Professor
- 4214 Centennial Hall
- gormes@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8714
Specialty areas:
Organizational and Professional Communication
Communication in Teams
Vice Chair
- Associate Professor
- Prairie Springs Science Center
- agalbraith@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8246
Specialty areas:
Genetics, genetic disorders, genetics, molecular biology, genetics, baker's yeast, genetics, antimicrobials, genetics....
Secretary
- Associate Professor
- 3102 Wittich Hall
- mmcdermott@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6751
Specialty areas:
Sustainability in Business
At-Large
- Teaching Professor
- 425W Wimberly Hall
- rfriesen@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8307
Specialty areas:
College composition, Early Modern literature, comic books as social commentary, supernatural themes in literature, dreams as literary and cultural themes.
At-Large
- Professor
- 1001 Cowley Hall
- jhertel@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8668
Specialty areas:
Teaching mathematics with technology, alternative forms of assessment and ungrading, mathematics education history, teaching and learning of trigonometry, and the development of probabilistic reasoning.
Academic Department Associate
Faculty Senate Meeting Dates
Click on each date below to see the agenda, meeting minutes, and distributed documents.
Fall 2024
| Sept.5 | Sept. 19 | Oct. 3 |
| Oct. 17 |
Oct. 31-Cancelled |
Nov. 14 |
| Nov. 21 | Dec. 5 |
Spring 2025
| Jan. 30 | Feb 13 | Feb 27 |
| March 13 -cancelled | March 27 | April 10 (*BOR overlap) |
| April 24 59th Senate | April 24 60th Senate | May 8th |
All Faculty Senate meetings are scheduled in Union 2310 and typically start at 3:45 p.m.