Faculty Senate
Welcome to the 2023 - 2024 Academic Year!
The Faculty Senate will continue to have hybrid meetings this academic year (except for the retreat). That means that both in-person and Zoom attendance options will be available. Guests are welcome to attend Faculty Senate meetings.
2023-2024 Faculty Senate Meetings
Full Senate meetings are 2:45-4:30pm every other Monday. The Faculty Senate Executive Committee meets 2:45-4:30pm on the Mondays in which the Full Senate does not meet.
- 08/22/2023 Fall Retreat (Culp East Tennessee Room | Agenda | Minutes)
- 09/11/2023 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 09/25/2023 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 10/09/2023 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 10/30/2023 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 11/13/2023 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 11/27/2023 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 01/22/2024 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 02/05/2024 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 02/19/2024 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 03/04/2024 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 03/25/2024 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 04/08/2024 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
- 04/22/2024 (Culp Forum / Zoom | Agenda | Minutes)
To join Faculty Senate meetings via Zoom, please log into Zoom through the SSO option and enter ETSU as the domain.
If you wish to place an item on the agenda for a meeting of the full Senate, please present it to a member of the Executive Committee. In its next meeting the Executive Committee will consider the item for a future agenda. If you have a motion, please complete the Motion Submission form. Please note that motions can only be made by current senators.
Officers for the 2023-2024 year
President: Ginni Blackhart
Vice President: Alan Stevens
Secretary: Ashley Sergiadis
Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer: Ryan Nivens
Past President: Stephen Hendrix
Mission of the Faculty Senate
1.1 To fulfill its mission effectively, the University needs a mechanism for meaningful
and continuing cooperation between the faculty and administrative officers of the
institution in shared governance. In order to foster mutual trust and respect and
to produce cooperative efforts that enhance the stature of the university and its
programs, formal and systematic lines of communication are needed to ensure full discussion
of important matters and adequate reaction from one constituency to another.
1.2. Final authority for implementing the policies of the institution resides with
the University president. It is a basic premise of this document that the faculty
has the right and obligation to participate fully and actively in the determination
of those policies that pertain to academic matters and faculty welfare. The Faculty Senate herein constituted provides, therefore, for meaningful and formal
participation by the faculty in matters of University governance that are related
to its right and proper concerns.
~from the Preamble to the Constitution of the Faculty Senate