Welcome to the University of Illinois at Springfield  
   

 

Senate Links

HOME
Meetings/Minutes
Executive
   Committee
Senate Members

Senate Agenda
Committees
Resolutions
U A Bills
Constitution
Bylaws
 

Current Topics

Last Updated:

November 8, 2007 14:58

 

Meet The Executive Committee

AY 2007/2008


The Executive Committee consists of the four officers of the Senate, the President of the Student Government Association, and the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. "The Executive Committee shall be responsible to the Senate for the effective and proper execution of its duties and responsibilities."


 


Pat Langley, Chair
Professor, Women's Studies and Legal Studies

Pat Langley is a lawyer by training and professor and advocate for faculty and shared governance by interest.  She began teaching in 1977 in Sangamon State's interdisciplinary Legal Studies B.A. and M.A. program.  Her interests have shifted considerably over the years, from legal studies to women's studies to queer theory.  Her current intellectual and teaching interests include queer theory; sexual orientation, gender expression and public policy; and feminist theories.  She is the convenor of the Women's Studies Program.

In addition to serving as Chair of the UIS Campus Senate, she has served on the UI Senates Conference--the coordinating committee of the three UI campus senates.  Fighting a trend that is turning American public higher education into an intellectual Walmart, she is committed to keeping UIS as democratic, flexible and non-corporate as possible.  She also works in the community, providing training for feminist organizations and working for and with queer groups.  She has been a board member for the local chapter of PFLAG the last few years.

email:  Langley,Pat@uis.edu
phone:  (217) 206-7423


 

James P. Hall, Vice Chair
Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems

email:  Hall,James@uis.edu
phone:  (217) 206-7860


 


Kent Redfield, Secretary
Interim Director, Institute for Legislative Studies/

Professor, Political Studies

Kent Redfield is a professor of Political Studies at the University of Illinois - Springfield (UIS). He has research appointments with the Center for State Policy and Leadership at UIS and the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs. In addition, he is also the Director of the Sunshine Project, a campaign finance research project funded by the Joyce Foundation.

 

He teaches courses in Illinois politics, state politics, policy analysis, political campaigns, lobbying, and research design and methodology.

He received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Utah and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

He has been engaged in research on the financing of political campaigns in Illinois and political ethics since 1991.  The results of that research have been presented in numerous research reports, a series of articles in Illinois Issues, a 1994 book on financing legislative elections in Illinois, which is entitled Cash Clout and a 2001 book on the role of money in Illinois politics entitled Money Counts.

email:  Redfield,Kent@uis.edu
phone:  (217) 206-6574


 


Marcel Yoder, Parliamentarian

Associate Professor, Psychology

email:  Yoder,Marcel@uis.edu

phone: (217) 206-7228

Harry J. Berman, Ex-Officio

Harry J. Berman is Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Human Services at the University of Illinois at Springfield.  He Holds degrees in psychology from the University of Chicago and Washington University.  In 1977 he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Springfield (then Sangamon State University), teaching in the gerontology and human services programs.  He accepted an administrative position in Fall 1994 as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.  In January 2001 he assumed responsibility for oversight of graduate education and research administration.

Berman's research is on the psychology of aging and has addressed topics such as retirement decisions, relations between adult children and aging parents, and the turnover of nurse aides in nursing homes.  A major focus of his research has been on personal accounts of the experience of aging.  This research was summarized in his book Interpreting the Aging Self: Personal Journals of Later Life and in a chapter on self-representation and aging in the Handbook of the Humanities and aging, 2nd edition.  He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

Berman has served as president of the Illinois Associate of Graduate Schools, is chair of the Publication Committee of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, and has made presentations at annual meetings of the Council of Graduate Schools on topics related to graduate education at predominantly master's institutions.
 

email:  Berman.Harry@uis.edu
phone:  (217) 206-6615

Robert Skorczewski, President of Student Government Association

email:  rskor01s@uisad.uis.edu
phone:  (217) 206-7712


TOP

 

 

 
Duties of the Officers:

Chairperson
:
A. calls, develops agendas for, and presides over meetings of the Senate;
B. may be called upon by the Senate to be its spokesperson and to represent the Senate in other forums within and outside the University as the need shall arise;
C. is responsible for supervising the support services provided to the Senate, and makes regular reports to the Senate on the disposition of such services.
Back

 


Vice-Chairperson
:
A. presides at meetings in the temporary absence of the Chairperson;
B. in case of any incapacity of the Chairperson, temporarily assumes the duties of the Chairperson;
C. assists the Chairperson in the preparation of the agenda;
D. chairs the Committee on Committees.
Back

 


Secretary
:
A. keeps minutes of each meeting, to be transcribed by the support staff;
B. makes the minutes available to the membership for approval at the start of each meeting;
C. maintains a file of such minutes for perusal, when necessary, by the members.
Back

 


Parliamentarian
:
A. advises the chair on questions of parliamentary procedure during meetings, at the request of the presiding officer, or upon points of order raised by the members.
Back

 

TOP

 

 


   
Contact:
Kathy Rutherford
Program Administrative Assistant
Campus Senate Office
Public Affairs Center, Room 383
University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza, MS PAC 383
Springfield, Illinois  62703-5407
email:  kruth1@uis.edu
 


Hand holding a telephone

voice:  (217) 206-6664
fax:  (217) 206-7462