Student Academic Appointee Affairs Committee

The Student Academic Appointee Affairs Committee studies existing problems of SAAs and attempts to anticipate future problems and recommends improvements in policies concerning the role of SAAs, helping in the implementation of these changes.

2022-2023 Assignments

  1. Connect with departments to gather the processes they use to hear SAA grievances and ensure that these align with policy BL-ACA-D28: Recommendations to Departments on SAA Grievances.
  2. Review suggested changes from the Task Force on Faculty and SAA Mediation/Board of Review Processes--these changes will be produced late in the Spring 2023 semester--in regards to the following policies:
    1. BL-ACA-D28: Recommendations to Departments on SAA Grievances
    2. BL-ACA-D29: SAA Mediation Procedures
    3. BL-ACA-D23: SAA Mediation Committee

2022 - 2023 Members

Co-chairs

Wyatt Smith, GPSG-SAA; Noah Stoffman, Kelley

Halina Goldberg

Music

Lisa-Marie Napoli

PACE

Deborah Snaddon

Chemistry

Cynthia Duquette Smith

English

Wes Zebrowski

GPSG-SAA

Jon Macy

Applied Health Science

Josh Paschal

GPSG-SAA

T. Rowan Candy

Optometry

Maria Jose DeSantiago Galan

GPSG-SAA

Lynn Gilman

Education

Tuli Mukhopadhyay

Biology

Michael Adams

English 

Carolyn Calloway-Thomas

AAADS

David Daleke

Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Health Sciences and Interim Dean of the University Graduate School (Ex officio)

Sanya Carley

Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs (Ex officio)