UB to celebrate Shared Governance Day

Published February 19, 2019 This content is archived.

UB will holds its fourth annual Shared Governance Day on March 5 with a joint meeting of the Faculty Senate and the Professional Staff Senate.

The meeting, which is open to all members of the UB community, will take place from 3-4:30 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.

SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson will deliver remarks via a video message.

Other speakers will offer their thoughts on “shared governance,” a foundational concept in higher education that includes all stakeholders in the decision-making that supports the institution’s mission.

They include:

  • Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, and a former chair of the Faculty Senate.
  • Gwen Kay, professor of history at SUNY Oswego and president of the SUNY University Faculty Senate.
  • Nina Tamrowski, president of the Faculty Council of Community Colleges.
  • Ken O’Brien, emeritus professor of history at SUNY Brockport and a former president of the University Faculty Senate.
  • Tod Laursen, SUNY provost.
  • Gunnar Haberl, UB Student Association president.
  • Mike Brown, student representative to the UB Council and president of the Council of Advocacy and Leadership (COAL).
  • Steve Jeter, executive vice president of CSEA Local 602.
  • Ezra Zubrow, president of UUP’s Buffalo Center Chapter.
  • Chris Bartolomei, chief of UB Police.
UB’s Shared governance Day was established in 2015 by resolutions of the Faculty Senate and the Professional Staff Senate. Observed on the first Tuesday in March, it is designated as a day that “shall be observed together by all five pillars of shared governance, including faculty, staff, students, administration and councils, through a series of informative, collegial and celebratory events.”
 
For more information, call the Office of Shared Governance at 645-2003.