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. 

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Elected Members

University Name Email
Cheyney O Denis Ekwerike ODEkwerike@cheyney.edu
Commonwealth-Bloomsburg Rajendra Dulal rdulal@commonwealthu.edu
Commonwealth-Lock Haven  Jennifer Deitloff jmd240@commonwealthu.edu 
Commonwealth-Mansfield Gretchen Sechrist gsechris@mansfield.edu
East Stroudsburg Nancy VanArsdale npva@esu.edu
Indiana Francisco Alarcón falarcon@iup.edu
Kutztown Mary Rita Weller weller@kutztown.edu
Millersville Tiffany Wright Tiffany.Wright@millersville.edu
PennWest California Scott Hargraves hargraves@pennwest.edu
PennWest Clarion Jamie Phillips jphillips@clarion.edu
PennWest Edinboro Julie Barry jbarry@pennwest.edu
Commonwealth-Lock Haven  Jennifer Deitloff jmd240@commonwealthu.edu 
Commonwealth-Mansfield Gretchen Sechrist gsechris@mansfield.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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