CALS/CES Faculty Council

The Faculty Council has been tasked to formulate recommendations on how we can more efficiently manage and utilize resources to achieve greater effectiveness in carrying out our three-fold mission of teaching, research and extension. Dean Shane Burgess introduced the membership, charge, resources, and guiding principles for this committee - originally called the Faculty Consultative Group - at an "all hands" meeting for the college on January 9, 2012.

The Faculty Council is composed of all elected and voting-eligible Faculty Senators with CALS or Cooperative Extension appointments, representatives elected by faculty within each CALS academic unit (one per department and two per school), and two elected representatives of county-based Cooperative Extension faculty.

  • Jeff Fehmi, Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment - Chair
  • Ashlee Linares-Gaffer, Associate Professor of Practice, School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness - Chair-Elect
  • Traci Armstrong Florian, Associate Agent, Maricopa County Cooperative Extension
  • Theresa Crimmins, Research Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment 
  • Debbie Curley, Area Associate Agent, Pima County Cooperative Extension
  • Dan Ferguson, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science
  • Ravi Goyal, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences
  • Kathleen Kennedy, Associate Professor of Practice, Norton School of Human Ecology
  • Gerardo "Jerry" Lopez, Assistant Professor/Associate Specialist, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences
  • Quintin Molina, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Agricultural Education, Technology and Innovation
  • Rebecca Mosher, Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences
  • Timothy Ottusch, Associate Professor of Practice, Norton School of Human Ecology
  • Representative TBA, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • Todd Schlenke, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology
  • Ashley Snider, Associate Professor, School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness
  • Akrum Tamimi, Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Biosystems Engineering
  • Russ Toomey, Professor, Norton School of Human Ecology
  • Koenraad van Doorslaer, Assistant Professor, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences
  • Gayatri Vedantam, Professor, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences
  • Zhongguo Xiong, Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences
  • Katie Zeiders, Associate Professor, Norton School of Human Ecology