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From the Senate Chair: Senate Nominating Committee 2024

TO: Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM: Tulia G. Falleti, Chair
SUBJECT: Senate Nominating Committee 2024

1.  In accordance with the requirements of the Faculty Senate Rules, notice is given to the Senate Membership of the Senate Executive Committee’s nine-member slate of nominees for the 2024 Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee’s function is to nominate candidates for appointments to all committees and positions for which the Faculty Senate has responsibility in appointing. The Nominating Committee consists of nine members: the chair, chair-elect, and past chair, three incumbent members of the Senate Executive Committee, and three members of the Faculty Senate selected by the constituency representatives of the Senate Executive Committee. The nominees, all of whom have agreed to serve, are:

  • Iwan Barankay (Associate Professor of Management and Business Economics & Public Policy; Senate Executive Committee Member)
  • Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia (Professor of Basic and Translational Sciences)
  • Tulia Falleti (Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science; Faculty Senate Chair)
  • Eric Feldman (Heimbold Chair in International Law and Professor of Law; Faculty Senate Chair-Elect)
  • Dalmacio Dennis Flores (Assistant Professor of Nursing; Senate Executive Committee Member)
  • Vivian Gadsden (William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education; Faculty Senate Past Chair)
  • Krithika Lingappan (Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Senate Executive Committee Member)
  • Randall Mason (Professor of Historic Preservation and City & Regional Planning)
  • Simon Richter (Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German)

2.  Pursuant to the rules, additional nominations may be submitted by petition containing at least 25 signed names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received by Tuesday, January 30, 2024. If no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Executive Committee will be declared elected. If additional nominations are received, an email ballot will be distributed to the Faculty Senate membership. Please forward any nominations-by-petition via email to the Faculty Senate office, senate@pobox.upenn.edu. Questions may be directed to Mr. Walsh by email to the address above or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.

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