Senate Advisory Group
Senate Advisory Group Fall 2025
Texas State University held elections in each of the colleges to establish a new Senate Advisory Group along with those members appointed by President Damphousse (listed below). The Senate Advisory Group will develop new Faculty Senate bylaws and update policies to comply with the new law by January 1, 2026. This group will then become the new Faculty Senate (the 68th Faculty Senate of Texas State University) after official approval by the Board of Regents.
The following officers have been selected, pending membership approval by the TSUS Board of Regents:
Lynn Ledbetter, Chair
David Donnelly, Vice Chair
Kevin Jetton, Secretary
Elected
P Michael Supancic | Assistant Professor | College of Applied Arts | School of Criminal Justice and Criminology |
Stacy Hunter | Associate Professor | College of Education | Department of Health and Human Performance |
Kevin Jetton | Professor of Instruction | McCoy College of Business | Department of Information Systems and Analytics |
Lynn Ledbetter | Professor | College of Fine Arts and Communication | School of Music |
Kim Lee | Associate Professor of Practice | College of Health Professions | School of Health Administration |
Peter Dedek | Professor | College of Liberal Arts | Department of History |
Noland Martin | Professor | College of Science and Engineering | Department of Biology |
Nominated
Shailen Singh | Associate Professor | College of Applied Arts | Department of Organization, Workforce, and Leadership Studies |
Dimitry Tetin | Associate Professor | College of Fine Arts and Communication | School of Art and Design |
Jo Beth Oestreich | Professor of Instruction | College of Education | Department of Curriculum and Instruction |
Barbara Hewitt | Associate Professor | College of Health Professions | Department of Health Informatics and Information Management |
Amy Meeks | Professor of Instruction | College of Liberal Arts | Department of Psychology |
Tahir Ekin | Professor | McCoy College of Business | Department of Information Systems and Analytics |
David Donnelly | Professor | College of Science and Engineering | Department of Physics |
67th Faculty Senate
May - Sept 2025*
Applied Arts: Michael Supancic, Criminal Justice
Business Administration: Kevin Jetton, (Secretary), Information Systems and Analytics
Education: Stacey Hunter, Health and Human Performance; Rolf Straubhaar, Counseling, Leadership, Adult Ed, School Psychology
Fine Arts & Communication: Dale Blasingame , Journalism and Mass Communication; Lynn Ledbetter (Chair), Music; Dimitry Tetin, Art and Design
Health Professions: Kim Lee, Health Administration
Liberal Arts: Peter Dedek, History; Valentina Glajar, World Languages and Literatures; Reiko Graham, Psychology; Steve Wilson, English
Science and Engineering: Noland Martin, Biology; David Donnelly, (Vice Chair) Physics; Piyush Shroff, Mathematics
66th Faculty Senate Accomplishments
The Texas State University 66th Faculty Senate worked diligently as an advocate for faculty from May 2024 – May 2025. Below is a list of accomplishments highlighting the work completed during this period.
The 66th Faculty Senate:
- Reviewed and endorsed awards related to the following peer review processes:
- Research Enhancement Grants,
- Nontenure Line Faculty Workload Release,
- University Lecturers Series Awards,
- Part-Time Faculty Teaching Awards, and the
- Piper Professor and Everette Swinney Teaching Awards.
- Reviewed and recommended 66 Faculty Development Leave applications.
- Met weekly during fall and spring semesters.
- Met as a full senate including Senate Liaisons once in each semester in 2024-2025. For the fall meeting liaisons and senators discussed issues brought forth by their constituents within their colleges. The discussion of the spring meeting focused on faculty feedback regarding Zoom v Teams. A final report was shared with the Vice President of Information Technology, Matt Hall
- Reviewed 89 curriculum additions, deletions and revisions.
- Reviewed revisions to 75 Academic Affairs and University policies.
- Served as impartial observers in Chair and Director and Dean reviews.
- Formed a Faculty Senate subcommittee to recommend changes to the Faculty Development Leave review process. Recommendations were shared with the Provost.
- Conducted several surveys in 2024-2025:
- Administrators Perception survey,
- Committee Preference survey and
- Provided summary reports on the Chair Survey.
- Reviewed and endorsed committee membership for 15 Faculty Senate Committees and for university committees and councils that hold Faculty Senate appointments. Reviews and changes to membership were made throughout the year in response to resignations, retirements, or department transfers.
- Reviewed reports from the Faculty Senate Committees including but not limited to: Academic Computing, Academic Freedom, University Curriculum, University Lecturers, University Research Enhancement.
- Conducted a Special Election to replace Senator Jo Beth Oestreich in Fall 2024.
- The regular senate election for 2025-2026 was conducted in March/April 2025 resulting in two senators winning re-election and four new senators. A late change in representation for the Education Department resulted in the appointment of the election runner-up for a one-year term.
- The 66th Faculty Senate set out to reform the election process for 2025-2026 and beyond by amending the Faculty Constitution to provide a process for candidates to opt-in rather than to opt-out of the election. The amendment passed with a vote of 697 for the amendment and 8 against.
The 66th Faculty Senate comprises the following members:
Lynn Ledbetter, Chair
David Donnelly, Vice-Chair
Kevin Jetton, Secretary
Stacey Bender, Dale Blasingame, Peter Dedek, Valentina Glajar, William Kelemen, Russ Lang, Noland Martin, Adetty Perez de Miles, Piyush Shroff, Lois Stickley, Michael Supancic, Steve Wilson