Faculty Council

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

Judy Brown, Plant Sciences - Chair

Gerardo Lopez, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences - Vice Chair

Tauhidur Rahman, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Edward Franklin, Agricultural Education, Technology and Innovation

Benjamin Renquist, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Armando Barreto Munoz, Biosystems Engineering

Paulina Maldonado, Entomology

Katerina Dontsova, Environmental Science

Corey Quailes, Human Ecology

Russ Toomey, Human Ecology

Michael Bogan, Natural Resources and the Environment

Bret Pasch, Natural Resources and the Environment

Jamie Lee Elliot, Nutritional Science and Wellness

Maria Plant, Nutritional Sciences and Wellness

Rod Wing, Plant Sciences

Courtney Duchardt, Natural Resources & the Environment

Robert Masson, Yuma County Cooperative Extension

Avik Mukherjee, Maricopa County Cooperative Extension

Duarte Diaz, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences (Faculty Senate, College Representative)

Kathleen Kennedy, Human Ecology (Faculty Senate, College Representative)

Ashlee Linares-Gaffer, Nutritional Sciences and Wellness (Faculty Senate, College Representative)

George W. Smith, Charles-Sander Dean - ex officio

Ashlee Linares-Gaffer, Nutritional Sciences and Wellness (Faculty Senate, College Representative)

George W. Smith, Charles-Sander Dean - ex officio

Meeting Minutes, 2024 - present

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Meeting Summaries, 2016 - 2023

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