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University Council

Purpose or Function: The University Council is a group representing all the major constituencies of the institution. The group will be assembled at the discretion of the President to receive information on significant university issues.

Membership: President’s Cabinet members, Provost’s Council members, Finance and Administration Council members, Institutional Advancement Council members, Athletic Director, Director of South Texas Institute for the Arts, Dean of Students and Student Affairs designees, Faculty Senate Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Faculty Senate Budget Committee Chair, Staff Advisory Council President and Vice President, Student Government President and Vice President, three Regents Professors, Director of Harte Research Institute (HRI), and others so designated by the President.

Chair: President


Name

Reason for Membership

Term, if applicable

Killebrew, Flavius                        Chair

President

Abdelsamad, Moustafa

Provost’s Council

Anderson, Mark

Regents Professor

Term ends 5/08

Benavides-Franke, Jo Anna

Student Affairs designee

Berkich, Carla

Student Affairs designee

Bezdek, Robert

Regents Professor

Term ends 5/06

Billeaux, David

Provost’s Council

Blomquist, Bea

Staff Advisory Council President

Cheek, Diana

Finance & Administration Council

Chenaux, Eliot

President’s Cabinet

Chesser, Amanda

Student Affairs designee

Cortinas, Debra

Finance & Administration Council

Cox, Rachel

Student Affairs designee

DeGaish, Ann

Dean of Students

Dube, Leon

Regents Professor

Term ends 5/07

Durham, Kerri

Institutional Advancement Council

Friday, Swint

Faculty Senate Deputy Speaker

Funk-Baxter, Kathryn

Finance & Administration Council

Furgason, Robert

Director of Harte Research Institute

Gigliotti, Richard

Provost’s Council

Guerra, Veronica

Provost’s Council

Gutierrez, Alan

Finance & Administration Council

Hamilton, Jacqueline

Student Affairs designee

Hamilton, Mary Jane

Provost’s Council

Kirby, Robert

President’s Cabinet

Hill, S. Trent

President’s Cabinet

Hopkins, Dee

Provost’s Council

Huerta, Juan Carlos

Provost’s Council

Hurley, Cathy

Institutional Advancement Council

Irby, Charles

Finance & Administration Council

Ivy, Diana

Faculty Senate Speaker

Johnston, Claudia

Provost’s Council

Kendrick, Celeste

Student Affairs designee

Knull, Harvey

Provost’s Council

Lovitt, Robert

President’s Cabinet

Lujan, Manuel

Provost’s Council

Needham, Jim

Provost’s Council (Dean, Community Outreach)

Nelson, Seamus

Student Government Association VP

Otton, William

Director, South Texas Institute for the Arts

Orser, Paul

Assoc. VP for Planning & Inst. Effectiveness

People, Ed

Finance & Administration Council

Prestriedge, Jennifer

Student Government Association President

Ramirez, Jorge A.

Institutional Advancement Council

Ramirez, Samuel

Finance & Administration Council

Shupala, Christine

Provost’s Council

Smith, Ron

Finance & Administration Council

Smith-Engle, Jennifer

Provost’s Council (Interim Dean, S&T)

Tunnell, Wes

Provost’s Council

Vasquez, Charles

Staff Advisory Council VP

Viola, Dan

Athletic Director

Walker, Angela

Student Affairs designee (Asst. Dean of Students)

Wiedermann, Robert

Provost’s Council

Williamson, Rhonda

Women’s Center Coordinator

 


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