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Faculty Senate

Senate Rosters

Term Ending 8/31/10
Term Ending 8/31/11
Term Ending 8/31/12


Ex officio Members

Gaylen Byker, President
Claudia Beversluis, Provost
Cheryl Brandsen, Academic Dean
Mark Williams, Academic Dean
Uko Zylstra, Academic Dean


Officers

Chair: Gaylen Byker
Vice Chair: Karin Maag
Secretary: Kurt Schaefer
Parliamentarian: Ned Nielsen


Term Ending 8/31/10

Department Representatives

Adam Wolpa (Art / ALE)
Jeff Winkle (Classical Languages / ALE)
Randy Bytwerk (CAS / ALE)
Jim Rooks (Education / ALE)
Deb Rienstra (English / ALE)
Eric Arnoys (Chemistry / NSM)
Gerry Van Kooten (Geology / NSM)
Will Katerberg (History / SSCD)
Doug Koopman (Political Science / SSCD) (fall only)
Simona Goi (Political Science / SSCD) (spring only)

Division Representatives

Dwight TenHuisen (ALE)
Julie Voskuil (SSCD)

At-Large Representatives

Nancy Meyer
David Van Baak
Randy Van Dragt

Non-teaching Faculty

Jeff Bouman

Student Senate Spokespersons (Nonvoting)

Ben Shoemaker (President)
Aleitheia Shin (Vice President)
Abbie Belford (Senator)

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Term Ending 8/31/11

Department Representatives

Ned Nielsen (Engineering / NSM)
Dianne Slager (Nursing / NSM)
Larry Molnar (Physics & Astronomy / NSM)
Marjorie Gunnoe (Psychology / NSM)
Deb Bakker (HPERDS / SSCD)
Jamie Smith (Philosophy / SSCD)
Sheila Bluhm (Sociology & Social Work / SSCD)

Division Representatives

Linda Naranjo-Huebl (ALE)
Ron Blankespoor (NSM)
Jennifer VanAntwerp (NSM)

At-Large Representatives

Jane Hendriksma
Dave Koetje
Michelle Loyd-Paige

Vice Chair

Karin Maag

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Term Ending 8/31/12

Department Representatives

David Smith (German; French / ALE)
Charsie Sawyer (Music / ALE)
Alisa Tigchelaar (Spanish / ALE)
David Dornbos (Biology / NSM)
Jeff Nyhoff (Computer Science / NSM)
Thomas Scofield (Math & Statistics / NSM)
Leonard Van Drunen (Business / SSCD)
Kurt Schaefer (Economics / SSCD)
Dan Harlow (Religion / SSCD)

Division Representatives

Diane Obenchain (SSCD)

Non-teaching Faculty

Gail Heffner

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Senate agenda and minutes are not posted online. They are available on the college's secure network drives at
R:\Teams\FacultySenate\.

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Legend

SSCD = Social Sciences and Contextual Disciplines

ALE = Arts, Languages, and Education

NSM = Natural Sciences and Mathematics