Faculty Senate Steering Committee

Membership 2024-25

Chair: Jill Emery

Each June, Faculty Senate elects two members of FSSC to serve for the subsequent two academic years.

Each June, Faculty Senate elects a Presiding Officer Elect (POE) for the coming academic year, who then becomes Presiding Officer (PO) for the next academic year, and then Past Presiding Officer (PPO) for the following academic year. POE, PO, and PPO are all voting ex-officio members of FSSC. The PO is ex-officio chair of FSSC.

Non-voting members of FSSC are: the Secretary to the Faculty, who is appointed by the President upon recommendation of FSSC; the senior member of PSU's delegation to Interinstitutional Faculty Senate; the Faculty member of PSU's Board of Trustees; and the chair of the Committee on Committees.

Charge (from Faculty Senate Bylaws)

a) Scheduling Senate action on committee work.

b) Referring problems to appropriate committees and coordinating the work of the different committees.

c) Assuring the Senate that agenda items submitted by Senate members and committees are properly prepared for Senate action.

d) Initiating motions for Senate referral to committees, or, where appropriate, for direct Senate action.

e) Making representation pursuant to Senate resolutions on educational matters and faculty interests to the State Board of Higher Education and other national, state and local government bodies. (In cases of urgency and in the absence of a Senate resolution on a policy matter at issue, the Steering Committee may make representations in the name of the Steering Committee.)