The Academic Faculty Council assumes shared responsibility with the administration for the creation, maintenance, and protection of a university environment conducive to the full and free development and preservation of scholarly learning, teaching, and research.
To accomplish these objectives the OSU-Cascades Academic Faculty Council, representing the OSU-Cascades Academic Faculty, shall have responsibility to make recommendations to the OSU Faculty Senate or administration for OSU-Cascades or OSU with respect to academic policies, educational standards, curricula, and academic regulations; study and prepare recommendations to the OSU-Cascades or OSU administration concerning the welfare of the OSU-Cascades Academic Faculty; provide the means through which any matter of general interest to the OSU-Cascades Academic Faculty or pertaining to the institution and its purpose may be brought to the OSU Faculty Senate or administration for OSU-Cascades or OSU for discussion and appropriate action.
Council Members
David Engel (Chair)
Brianne Kothari (Chair Elect)
Lucy Purgason (Past Chair)
Aidas Banaitis (Division Representative for Sciences)
Naomi Morrison (Division Representative for Business & Engineering)
Molly Moran (Division Representative for Education & Health)
Andrew Lorish (Division Representative for Liberal Arts)
Christina Cappy (Division Representative for Part-Time Faculty)
Matt Orr (ex officio-Faculty Senate)
Research Excellence Committee
Jennifer Reimer (co-chair)
JJ Hannigan (co-chair)
Skuyler Herzog
Tori Howes
Kreg Lindberg
Dina Ribbink
Braden Engel
David Phillips
Bill Forster
Shannon Lipscomb (ex officio, Associate Dean for Research)