UAA Alert! Anchorage Campus Inclement Weather Notice for Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.

Due to unsafe road conditions for Anchorage and surrounding areas, UAA’s Anchorage campus will be on a delayed start today, Thursday, Dec. 4. Campus will open at 10 a.m. to allow for safer travel.

Membership

Membership List

  • Faculty Senate

    Faculty Senate

     

    Officers
    First Last Position Discipline Term Email Phone
    Matthew Cuellar President Social Work 25-26 mjcuellar@alaska.edu 786-6901
    Megan Ossiander-Gobeille President Elect Quantitative Studies 25-26 maossiandergobeille@alaska.edu 786-6159
    Ryan Harrod Vice President Anthropology 25-26 rharrod2@alaska.edu 786-4989
    Yvonne Chase UAB Chair Human Services 25-26 ymchase@alaska.edu 786-6438
    Morgan Brissette GAB Chair School of Nursing 25-26 mabrissette@alaska.edu 786-0047
    Jackie Cason Past President Writing 25-26 jecason@alaska.edu 786-1917
    Vacancy Parlimentarian 25-26

     

    Senators
    First Last Position Discipline Term Email Phone
    Vacancy CBPP 24-26 jsidgman@alaska.edu
    Sayed Ahmadi KPC Writing 25-27 sahmadi3@alaska.edu 262-0307
    Douglass Bourne CTC Writing 25-27 dabourne@alaska.edu 786-4380
    David Bowie CAS English 25-27 dbowie2@alaska.edu 786-4359
    Page Brannon At-Large Library 25-27 plbrannon@alaska.edu 786-1873
    Morgan Brissette At-Large Nursing 24-26 mabrisette@alaska.edu 786-0447
    Barbara Brown Student Affairs/Kodiak Academic Counselor 24-26 bebrown@alaska.edu 486-1211
    Sarah Buckingham CAS Psychology 24-26 sbuckingham@alaska.edu 786-1767
    Sharon Chamard COH Justice 24-26 sechamard@alaska.edu 786-1813
    Yvonne Chase COH Human Services 25-27 ymchase@alaska.edu 786-6438
    Samuel Cook CAS Mathmatics 24-26 sam.cook@alaska.edu 786-1743
    Cathy Coulter SoEd Language and Literacy 24-26 cacoulter@alaska.edu 786-4457
    Mark Fitch CAS Mathematics 25-27 mafitch@alaska.edu 786-1656
    Stefanos Folias At-Large Mathematics 25-27 sefolias@alaska.edu 786-1748
    Gabriel Garcia COH Health Sciences 24-26 ggarci16@alaska.edu 786-6532
    Christopher Gardiner CTC Quantitative Studies 24-26 cgardin1@alaska.edu 786-4389
    Amanda Glazier PWSC Biology 25-27 aeglazier@alaska.edu 834-1672
    Rachel Graham Mat-Su Mathematics 25-27 rgraham10@alaska.edu 745-9348
    Amy Green CBPP 25-27 amgreen5@alaska.edu 786-1405
    Rachael Hannah CAS Biology 25-27 rmhannah@alaska.edu 786-1633
    Carrie King COH Dietetics 24-26 cdking@alaska.edu 786-6597
    Sarah Kirk CTC Writing 24-26 sjkirk@alaska.edu 786-6851
    Jodee Kuden Library Collection Department 25-27 jlkuden@alaska.edu 786-1875
    Matthew Kupilik CoEng Electrical Engineering 24-26 mkupilik@alaska.edu 786-5468
    Terri Manthey CTC Quantitative Studies 25-27 tmanthey@alaska.edu 786-4924
    Jesse Mickelson Kodiak Mathematics 25-27 jmickel2@alaska.edu (509) 392-2422
    Zachary Milliman At-Large AK Native Studies 25-27 znmilliman@alaska.edu 786-0365
    Deb Mole Library Reference 24-26 dimole@alaska.edu 786-1967
    Debbie Narang CAS Math./Natural Sc. Mathematics 24-26 dlnarang@alaska.edu 786-1312
    Kimberly Pace CAS Social Sciences Political Science 24-26 kjpace@alaska.edu 786-4837
    Anthony Paris CoEng Mechanical Engineering 25-27 ajparis@alaska.edu 786-1912
    Greg Protasel CBPP Public Policy 25-27 gjprotasel@alaska.edu 786-1786
    Heide Provencher COH 24-26 hmprovencher@alaska.edu 786-4584
    Jessica Ross COH Human Services 25-27 jmross2@alaska.edu 786-0327
    Carri Shamburger COH Medical Laboratory Science 24-26 cashamburger@alaska.edu 786-4344
    Raghu Srinivasan CoEng Mechanical Engineering 25-27 rsrinivasan2@alaska.edu 786-4815
    Lorelei Sterling At-Large Library 24-26 lsterling@alaska.edu
    Sharyl Toscano COH Nursing 25-27 setoscano@alaska.edu 786-6377
    Clayton Trotter At-Large CBPP 24-26 rctrotter@alaska.edu 786-4152
    Amy Urbanus COH Dietetics 24-26 alurbanus@alaska.edu 786-0337
    Toby Widdicombe CAS Department of English 24-26 rtwiddicombe@alaska.edu 786-4377
    Vacancy KPC 24-26

     

     

  • Committees

    Boards & Committees

    Legend
    Faculty Senator
    Committee Chair
    Vacancy
    UAA Faculty Committee Participant
    Ex-Officio

     

    Faculty Senate Executive Board (FSEB)
    Meetings are held every Wednesday, during the academic year, 10:00 to 11:30 am
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Matthew Cuellar President 25-26 mjcuellar@alaska.edu
    Megan Ossiander-Gobeille President Elect 25-26 maossiandergobeille@alaska.edu
    Ryan Harrod Vice President 25-26 rharrod2@alaska.edu
    Jackie Cason Past President 25-26 jecason@alaska.edu
    Yvonne Chase UAB Chair 25-26 ymchase@alaska.edu
    Morgan Brissette GAB Chair 25-26 mabrissette@alaska.edu
    Vacancy Parlimentarian 25-26

     

    Undergraduate Academic Board (UAB)
    Meetings are held (exclusively Zoom) every Friday, except the first Friday of the month, 2:00 to 5:00 pm
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Yvonne Chase Chair COH 25-27 ymchase@alaska.edu
    Vacancy CBPP 24-26
    Vacancy KPC 25-27
    Page Brannon LIB 25-27 plbrannon@alaska.edu
    Sheri Denison Mat-Su 24-26 sadenison@alaska.edu
    Utpal Dutta CoEng 24-26 udutta2@alaska.edu
    Christopher Gardiner CTC 24-26 cgardin1@alaska.edu
    Hannah Johnson CTC 25-27
    Emily Madsen CAS 24-26 emadsen6@alaska.edu
    Heide Provencher COH 25-27
    Chelsea Sohm SOEd 25-27 clsohm@alaska.edu
    Amy Urbanus COH 24-26
    Toby Widdicombe CAS 25-27
    Rotating Rep. Enrollment, Ex-Offcio n/a
    Lindsey Chadwell Registrar, Ex-Officio n/a
    Susan Kalina OAA, Ex-Officio n/a
    Vacancy Kodiak 24-26
    Vacancy USUAA (Optional)
    Vacancy PWSC 24-26

     

    Graduate Academic Board (GAB)
    Meetings are held (exclusively Zoom) the second and fourth Friday of the month, 9:30 to 11:30 am
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Morgan Brissette Chair COH 24-26
    Jessy Frye COH 25-27
    Panigkaq Agatha John-Shields SOEd 25-27
    Zachary Milliman CAS 25-27 znmilliman@alaska.edu
    Jifeng Peng CoEng 25-27
    Greg Protosel CBPP 25-27 gjprotasel@alaska.edu
    Ruth Terry LIB 25-27 rterry9@alaska.edu
    Rotating Rep. Enrollment, Ex-Officio n/a
    Lindsay Chadwell Registrar, Ex-Officio n/a yvselhay@alaska.edu
    Mary Jo Finney OAA, Ex-Officio n/a mjfinney@alaska.edu
    Ryan Harrod CAS 25-27 rharrod2@alaska.edu
    Vacancy USUAA (Optional)
    Vacancy At-Large 25-26

     

    Academic Assessment Committee (AAC)
    Meetings are held the first and third Friday of every month from 11:00 to 12:30 pm
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Deborah Mole Chair LIB 25-27 dlmole@alaska.edu
    Subhabrata Dev CoEng 24-26 sdev@alaska.edu
    Ryan Harrod CAS 24-26 rharrod2@alaska.edu
    Wael Hassan At-Large 25-26 wmhassan@alaska.edu
    Annette Hornung Mat-Su 24-26 ahornung@alaska.edu
    Krista James SOEd 24-26 kpjames@alaska.edu
    Christopher Jung At-Large 25-26 cmjung@alaska.edu
    Jeff Meyers KPC 24-26 jmeyers13@alaska.edu
    David Morrison CTC 25-27 dsmorrison@alaska.edu
    John Nofsinger CBPP 24-26
    Jennifer Piffarerio At-Large 24-26 jpiffare@alaska.edu
    Marisa Bune At-Large 25-27 mcbune@alaska.edu
    Susan Kalina Ex-Officio, OAA n/a smkalina@alaska.edu
    Terry Kelly CAS 25-27 tmkelly2@alaska.edu
    Vacancy COH 25-27
    Vacancy PSWC 24-26
    Vacancy Kodiak 25-26

     

    Faculty Grants and Leaves (FGL)
    Usually four meetings per year (exclusively Zoom), held Fridays 8:30-10:00 am in Oct, Nov, Dec,
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Utpal Dutta CoEng 24-27 udutta2@alaska.edu
    Amy Green CBPP 25-28 amgreen5@alaska.edu
    Britteny Howell COH 25-28 bmhowell2@alaska.edu
    Sarah Kirk CTC 23-26 sjkirk@alaska.edu
    Cindy Trussell Community Campus 25-28 citrussell@alaska.edu
    Wei Hsiao SOEd 23-26 whsiao@alaska.edu
    Kamal Narang CAS 24-27 knarang@alaska.edu
    Vacancy COH 23-26
    Lauren Wallace LIB 25-28 lawallace4@alaska.edu

     

    Budget, Planning, & Facilities Advisory Committee (BPFA)
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Stefanos Folias Co-Chair FS/CAS 25-26 sefolias@alaska.edu
    Jodee Kuden Co-Chair FS/LIB 25-26 jlkuden@alaska.edu
    Sharon Chamard FS/COH 25-26 sechamard@alaska.edu
    Vacancy CBPP 25-26
    Teresa Stephenson CBPP 25-26 tstephenson01@alaska.edu
    Sarah Kirk CTC 25-26 sjkirk@alaska.edu

     

    Community Campus Committee (CCC)
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Jeffrey Johnson Co-Chair FS/KPC 24-25 jjohnson47@alaska.edu
    Jennifer Bernard Mat-Su 24-25 jdbernard@alaska.edu
    Lia Calhoun Co-Chair 25-26 eicalhoun@alaska.edu
    Joan Haig UAA 24-25 jmhaig@alaska.edu
    Steve Hallam KPC 24-25 schallam@alaska.edu
    Erik Hirschmann FS/Mat-Su 24-25 ethirschmann@alaska.edu
    Jeff Laube KPC 24-25 jlaube@alaska.edu
    Michelle Mishaan 24-25 mlmishaan@alaska.edu
    Matthew Prnka 24-25 mrprnka@alaska.edu
    Andy Veh KPC 24-25 afveh@alaska.edu
    Ali Ahmadi Co-Chair KPC 25-26 sahmadi3@alaska.edu
    Jeffrey Johnson Co-Chair KPC 25-26 jjohnson47@alaska.edu

     

    University Wide Faculty Evaluations Committee (UFEC)
    Meetings are held every Friday morning from January to 1st week of March
    Committee consists of a total of fifteen (15) tenured full professors. No more than five (5) faculty members may be from an individual school or college. Tenured associate professors will be elected if there are insufficient numbers of professors.
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Thomas Harman Professor CTC 25-28 tjharman@alaska.edu
    Britteny Howell As. Professor COH 25-28 bmhowell2@alaska.edu
    Mark Fitch Professor CAS 25-28 mafitch@alaska.edu
    Rebecca Moorman Professor LIB 25-28 rmoorman@alaska.edu
    Yasuhiro Ozuru Professor CAS 24-27 yozuru@alaska.edu
    Anthony Paris Professor CoENG 23-26 ajparis@alaska.edu
    Sharyl Toscano Professor COH 23-26 setoscano@alaska.edu
    Clayton Trotter Professor CBPP 24-27
    Peter Varney As. Professor COH 25-28 pbvarney@alaska.edu
    Andy Veh As. Professor KPC 23-26 afveh@alaska.edu
    Amy Green Professor CBPP 25-28-27 amgreen5@alaska.edu
    Sara Kirk Professor CTC 25-28 sjkirk@alaska.edu
    Angelica Trujillo Professor COH 24-27 actrujillo@alaska.edu
    Ginger Blackmon Professor SoED 25-28 glblackmon@alaska.edu
    Songo Ha Professor CAS 25-28 sha4@alaska.edu

     

    Diversity Committee (DC)
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    FS/CTC 24-25
    Michelle Yatchmeneff FR/CoEng 25-26 myatchmeneff@alaska.edu
    Gabe Garcia COH 24-25 ggarci16@alaska.edu
    Erin Hicks FS/CAS 24-25 ekhicks@alaska.edu
    Wei-Ying Hsiao SOEd 24-25 whsiao@alaska.edu
    Cammie Hsu PWSCC 24-25 cshsu@alaska.edu
    Jodi Jacques CAS 24-25
    Vanessa Meade COH 24-25 vmeade@alaska.edu
    Virginia (Jenny) Miller COH 24-25 vlmiller2@alaska.edu
    Kimberly Pace CAS 24-25 kjpace@alaska.edu
    Katja Perat FS/CAS 24-25 kperat@alaska.edu
    Jessica Ross CAS 24-25 jmross2@alaska.edu
    Rei Shimizu COH 24-25 rshimizu@alaska.edu
    Lauren Wallace LIB 24-25 lawallace4@alaska.edu
    Seta Kabranian-Melkonian COH 24-25 sbkabranian@alaska.edu
    Amana Mbise COH 24-25 ambise@alaska.edu
    Dacia Davis Co-Chair SoED 25-26 ddavis114@alaska.edu
    Peter Varney Co-Chair COH 25-26 pbvarney@alaska.edu

     

    Student Academic Support and Success Committee (SASS)
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Vacancy Kodiak
    Debbie Narang Chair FS/CAS 25-26 dlnarang@alaska.edu
    Deidre Berberich CBPP 25-26 drberberich@alaska.edu
    Matthew Cueller FS/COH 25-26 mjcuellar@alaska.edu
    Connie Fuess Mat-Su 25-26 clfuess@alaska.edu
    Trish Jenkins CAS 25-26 pmjenkins@alaska.edu
    Emily Madsen CTC 25-26 emadsen6@alaska.edu
    Kamal Narang CAS 25-26 knarang@alaska.edu
    Tara Palmer CTC 25-26 tmpalmer2@alaska.edu
    Sara Rufner CTC 25-27 sjrufner@alaska.edu
    Lorelei Sterling LIB 25-26 lsterling@alaska.edu
    Ray Ball Ex-Officio, VP of Student Success

     

    Library Advisory Comittee (LAC)
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    David Bowie Chair 25-26 dbowie2@alaska.edu
    Sam Cook CAS 25-26 scook25@alaska.edu
    Roman Dial APU 25-26 rdial1@alaska.edu
    Ryan Harrod CAS 25-26 rharrod2@alaska.edu
    D'Arcy Hutchings LIB 25-26 dlhutchings@alaska.edu
    Jodi Jacques LIB 25-26 jmjacques@alaska.edu
    Tim Rawson APU 25-26 tmrson@alaskapacific.edu
    Ken Kimura APU 25-26 kkimura@alaskapacific.edu
    Tom Rosko Dean of Library Dean

     

    Academic Computing, Distance Learning, Instructional Technology, & eLearning Committee (ACDLITE)
    Meetings held 2nd Friday each month
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    D'Arcy Hutchings Co-Chair LIB 24-25 dlhutchings@alaska.edu
    Terri Manthey Co-Chair FS/CTC 24-25 tmanthey@alaska.edu
    Melissa Chlupach COH 24-25 machlupach@alaska.edu
    Tom Dalrymple KPC 24-25 tadalrymple@alaska.edu
    Kitty Deal SoED/Kodiak 24-25 kldeal@alaska.edu
    Rachel Graham CAS/Mat-Su 24-25 rgraham10@alaska.edu
    Barbara Harville CTC 24-25 baharville@alaska.edu
    Micah Muer LIB/MatSu 24-25 mwmuer@alaska.edu
    Heide Provencher COH 24-25 hmprovencher@alaska.edu
    Ryan McDaniel Ex-Officio representing IT 24-25 rjmcdaniel@alaska.edu
    Colin McGill Ex-Officio representing CAFE 24-25 cmmcgill@alaska.edu
    Kathryn Schild Ex-Officio representing Instructional Design 24-25 kdschild@alaska.edu
    Vacancy COH

     

    Research and Creative Activity Committee (RCAC)
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Brandon Briggs Tri-Chair CAS (Math and Nat. Sci) 24-25 bbriggs6@alaska.edu
    Travis Hedwig Tri-Chair COH 24-25 thhedwig@alaska.edu
    Kathi Trawver Tri-Chair COH 24-25 krtrawver@alaska.edu
    Ajit Dayanandan CBPP 24-25 adayanandan@alaska.edu
    John Lutterman CAS (Performing and Fine Arts) 24-25 jlutterman@alaska.edu
    Holly Martinson FS/COH (WWAMI) 24-25 hamartinson@alaska.edu
    Jen Schmidt ISER 24-25 jischmidt@alaska.edu
    Oleg Shiryayev CoEng 24-25 oshiryayev@alaska.edu
    Amber Worthington CTC 24-25 akworthington@alaska.edu
    Aaron Dotson Ex-Officio 24-25 addotson@alaska.edu
    Colin McGill Ex-Officio cmmcgill@alaska.edu

     

    General Education Council (GEC)
    Meetings held 1st Friday at 10:30AM
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Sheri Denison Tri-Chair Written Comm. (UAB, Mat-su) 24-26 sadenison@alaska.edu
    Rachel Graham Tri-Chair Mathematics (Mat-Su) 24-26 rgraham10@alaska.edu
    Gwendolyn Higgens Tri-Chair LIB 24-26 gahiggins@alaska.edu
    Douglass Bourne Written Communication (CTC) 25-27 dabourne@alaska.edu
    Sam Cook Mathematics (CAS) 24-26 scook25@alaska.edu
    Christopher Gardiner Mathematics (CTC) 24-26 cgardin1@alaska.edu
    Erik Hirschmann Humanities (Mat-Su) 24-26
    Seta Kabranian Social Science (COH) 24-26 sbkabranian@alaska.edu
    Michelle Mishaan Fine Arts (Mat-Su) 24-26
    Maria Williams Humanities/AKNS 24-26 mdwilliams6@alaska.edu
    Yvvone Chase Ex-Officio (UAB chair) 24-25 ymchase@alaska.edu
    Arel Gutierrez USUAA (Undergrad/Cert Seeking) 24-25
    Vacancy Natural Science 24-26
    Vacancy Non-GER 24-26
    Vacancy Oral Communication 24-26

     

    Senior Administrators Review Committee (SARC)
    Meetings are held the first Friday at 10:00
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email
    Larry Foster Co-Chair 24-25 lmfoster@alaska.edu
    Soren Orley Co-Chair FS/CBPP 24-25 seorley@alaska.edu
    Deidre Berberich Mat-Su
    Ginger Blackmon SOEd 24-25 glblackmon@alaska.edu
    Hannah Henninghausen CBPP hbhennighausen@alaska.edu
    Nate Hicks CAS (Math nkhicks@alaska.edu
    Tim Hinterberger COH 24-25 tjhinterberger@alaska.edu
    Jeffrey Johnson KPC 24-25 jjohnson47@alaska.edu
    Kathleen Nevis Mat-Su
    Melissa Reed CoH mareed2@alaska.edu

     

    Ad hoc committee on IDEA
    Legend First Last Title Representing Term Email

     

     

(Interim) Governance Coordinator 

Name E-Mail
Grace Gallagher uaa_governance@alaska.edu