The Faculty Council engages in strategic conversations about issues that affect the
State System and its universities in areas such as academics, budget and planning,
and, ultimately, student success.
Elected Members
University | Name | |
Cheyney | Jolly Malickel | jmalickel@cheyney.edu |
Commonwealth-Bloomsburg | David Fazzino | dfazzino@commonwealthu.edu |
Commonwealth-Lock Haven | Lou Widmann | lwidmann@commonwealthu.edu |
Commonwealth-Mansfield | Brad Lint | blint@mansfield.edu |
East Stroudsburg | Jonathan Keiter | jkeiter@esu.edu |
Indiana | John Lowery | jlowery@iup.edu |
Kutztown | Mary Rita Weller | weller@kutztown.edu |
Millersville | Jill Craven | jill.craven@millersville.edu |
PennWest California | Scott Hargraves | hargraves@pennwest.edu |
PennWest Clarion | Jamie Phillips | jphillips@pennwest.edu |
PennWest Edinboro | Richard Deal | rdeal@pennwest.edu |
Shippensburg | Elizabeth Fisher | eafish@ship.edu |
Slippery Rock | Danette Dimarco | danette.dimarco@sru.edu |
West Chester | Tina Chiarelli-Helminiak | CCHIARELLI@wcupa.edu |
Guiding Principles
The guiding principles for the Faculty Council—developed October 2020 by the Board’s
Commission on Faculty Shared Governance to guide its work in developing a shared governance model to inform system-level
issues—are that shared governance:
- Requires an investment of the time necessary to build relationships that foster mutual accountability, respect, and trust;
- Provides a forum for engagement;
- Requires mutual commitment to a collaborative policy development process;
- Respects university-level shared governance/processes;
- Reflects processes/structures/ practices that are understandable, accepted, transparent, and sustainable;
- Augments, but does not supplant, the existing shared governance role of the collective bargaining unit;
- Establishes common ground that builds morale and collaboration—acknowledging the successes and failures of the past to inform decision making about the future;
- Creates a supportive environment that allows for healthy tension in which sharing of different perspectives and ideas enables problem solving;
- Depends upon timely and effective communication with active sharing of reliable information; and,
- Requires periodic assessment to gauge effectiveness.
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