Members
CALS APC Members for the 2020-21 Academic Year
Chair: Kate VandenBosch
Ex Officio: Bill Barker, Carol Hillmer, Sundaram Gunasekaran (Guna), Doug Reinemann, Mark Rickenbach, Angie Seitler, Karen Wassarman, Heidi Zoerb
| Voting Members | Representative | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Division 1 | Laura Hernandez | Animal and Dairy Sciences |
| Xuejun Pan | Biological Systems Engineering | |
| Division 2 | Rick Lindroth | Entomology |
| Scott Lutz | Forest & Wildlife Ecology | |
| Division 3 | Michael Xenos | Life Sciences Communication |
| Guanming Shi *Jeremy Foltz (Substitute for Fall 2020 & Spring 2021) |
Agricultural & Applied Economics | |
| Division 4 | William Tracy | Agronomy |
| Jed Colquhoun | Horticulture | |
| Division 5 | Samuel Butcher | Biochemistry |
| Nicole Perna | Genetics & Genomics | |
| Michael Thomas | Bacteriology | |
| Extension | Barb Ingham | Food Science |
| Academic Staff | Erika Anna | Academic Staff 1 |
| Jamie Nack | Academic Staff 2 |
Membership
The committee will have 14 members elected from the following areas/divisions:
| Division 1: | 2 members representing Animal and Dairy Sciences, Biological Systems Engineering, Food Science |
| Division 2: | 2 members representing Entomology, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, and Soil Science |
| Division 3: | 2 members representing Agricultural and Applied Economics, Community and Environmental Sociology, and Life Sciences Communication |
| Division 4: | 2 members representing Agronomy, Plant Pathology, and Horticulture |
| Division 5: | 3 members representing Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Nutritional Science |
| Extension: | One faculty in CALS with an Extension appointment |
| Academic Staff: | Two academic staff in CALS with a 50% appointment or more |
- The Dean or his/her designee.
- The Dean or his/her designee will serve as chair of the committee.
- Committee member terms will be for three years.
- A quorum is defined as any 8 members.
- Election of committee members:
- A call for nominations will be made. Nominations can be made by any faculty member within a represented area/division. Nominees must be voting faculty members within the same represented faculty area/division. Nominations for academic staff – may be made by any member of the academic staff.
- Election of the representatives to the APC will be held. All faculty in CALS are eligible to vote for one candidate in each faculty area/division represented on the ballot. All academic staff in the college may vote for the academic staff representative.