History
CSU Academic Senate
Preserved and encouraged under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Act (HEERA) of 1978, the Academic Senate of The ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñState University serves as the official voice of the faculty of the CSU in matters of system wide concern. The Academic Senate CSU generally meets five times per year, its plenary sessions scheduled in advance of meetings of the Board of Trustees. Academic Senate CSU recommendations concerning system wide policies are channeled to or through the Chancellor. ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ has four representatives to the Academic Senate, CSU. The representatives are elected in an all-University election and serve three-year terms.
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Academic Senate
On the local level, the Academic Senate of ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñState University, Long Beach is the duly appointed representative body of the faculty. Concerning itself with many needs of the University, the Academic Senate develops policy subject to the approval of the President. The Academic Senate also serves as a communications link between the faculty and the administration of the University. The Academic Senate is a full-University Senate which includes full-time tenured and probationary faculty, librarians, student services professionals--academic related, lecturers, emeritus representative, administration, staff, and students. Representatives are elected by their constituencies for staggered three-year terms.
The Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and four members at large, all elected by the Senate, constitute the voting membership of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate. The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ representatives to the Academic Senate of the CSU (ASCSU), the President of the University, the Provost, Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Dean of Graduate Studies, the Vice President for Administration and Finance, a designee of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Chair of the Staff Council, the Chief Academic Officer of the Associated ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Inc., the president of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ chapter of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñFaculty Association (CFA), and the Immediate-Past Chair of the Academic Senate, serve as ex officio, non-voting members. The specific charge to the Executive Committee is contained in the document titled "Rules and Regulations of the Academic Senate."
Rules and Regulations of the Academic Senate (PDF)
Academic Senate Chairs by Year
| Year | Name | Department | Chair Photo |
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| 2024-2025 | Neil Hultgren | English | Image
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| 2022-2024 | Pei-Fang Hung | Speech Language Pathology | Image
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| 2021-2022 | Neil Hultgren | English |
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| 2019-2021 | Jessica Zacher Pandya | Liberal Studies | Image
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| 2016-2019 | Norbert Schürer | English | Image
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| January 2015-2016 | Praveen Soni | Marketing | Image
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| 2012-January 2015 | Daniel O'Connor | Liberal Studies | Image
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| 2010-2012 | Lisa Vollendorf | Romance, German, and Russian Languages and Literatures | Image
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| 2006-2010 | Praveen Soni | Marketing | Image
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| 2004-2006 | Margaret Merryfield | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Image
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| 2001-2004 | Wayne Dick | Computer Engineering & Computer Science | Image
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| 1998-2001 | Simeon J. Crowther | Economics | Image
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| 1995-1998 | David Hood | History | Image
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| 1992-1995 | Dorothy M. Goldish | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Image
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| 1992 (April-July) | Simon George | Physics | Image
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| 1989-1992 | Frank Alfieri | Biological Sciences | Image
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| 1986-1989 | Ben Cunningham | Journalism | Image
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| 1983-1986 | Hiden T. Cox | Biological Sciences | Image
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| 1981-1983 | Owen O. Jenson | Speech Communication | |
| 1980-1981 | Raphael Hanson | Psychology | Image
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| 1978-1980 | Helen Chaney Gilde | English | Image
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| 1977-1978 | Jack Stuart | History | Image
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| 1975-1977 | James E. Ryan | Industrial Education | |
| 1974-1975 | Jack H. Munsee | Physics/Astronomy | Image
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| 1973-1974 | Russel E. Orpet | Educational Psychology & Administration | |
| 1972-1973 | Helen Chaney Gilde | English | Image
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| 1970-1972 | Nicholas P. Hardeman | History | Image
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| 1969-1970 | Edwin N. Becker | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Image
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| 1968-1969 | Leo Gooman-Malamuth | Speech Communication | Image
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| 1967-1968 | James N. McClelland | Psychology | Image
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| 1966-1967 | Robert E. Tyndall | Music | Image
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| 1965-1966 | Ralph C. Graetz | Education | |
| 1963-1965 | Joseph E. Wagner | Speech Communication | Image
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| 1962-1963 | Gene Atkinson | Physical Science | Image
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| 1961-1962 | Jesse J. Thompson | Speech Communication | Image
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| 1959-1961 | Samuel E. Wiley | Philosophy | Image
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| 1958-1959 | Myron J. Garver | Education |
