Charge
The Woodring Advisory Council serves as a broad-based advisory group that provides feedback to the Dean on important items that influence faculty, staff, and students within the college. This visioning group addresses potential future directions and their implications at regularly scheduled meetings and reporting back to their constituent groups on the topics discussed.
Duties
The Woodring Advisory Council discusses wide-ranging issues that may include:
- Implications of adding or eliminating programs within the college.
- Discuss implications of proposed bylaws revisions
- Impact of budget cuts and/or budget growth on college programs and staff.
- Innovative curricular additions.
- Creative partnerships with community groups.
- Discussions of college climate and its impact on students, staff, and faculty.
- Roles of professional development/research/service centers.
- College-level evaluations.
- Initiatives advanced either from within or outside the College.
- Strategic planning.
- International directions.
- Propose and review professional development proposals for the College.
- Other visioning topics brought to the group by the Dean and others.
Membership
| NAME | ROLE |
| Horacio Walker | Dean |
| Jackie Baker Sennett | Co-Associate Dean for Student Services |
| Tracy Coskie | Co-Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Chair, Dept. of Elementary Education (faculty) |
| Susan Cahill | Staff Advisory Council |
| Karen Dade | Faculty Governance Committee Representative (faculty) |
| Greg Hoffenbacker | Director, Technology Services |
| Bow Jerns | Staff Advisory Council |
| Peter Johnson | Director, Teacher Certification, Accreditation & Admissions |
| Bridget Kelley | Technology Committee Representative (faculty) |
| John Korsmo | Chair, Dept. of Health and Community Studies (faculty) |
| Charles Lambert | Chair, Dept. of Special Education (faculty) |
| Bill Lonneman | Interim Director, Nursing Program |
| Natalie Newman | Woodring Resource Centers Representative |
| Melissa Oscarson | Interim Director, Office of Field Experiences |
| Daisy Padilla Torres | Senior Consultant, Diversity, Recruitment & Retention |
| Kevin Roxas | Chair, Dept. of Secondary Education (faculty) |
| TBD | AS Woodring Senator |
| TBD | AS Woodring Senator |
| TBD | Equity & Diversity Committee Representative |
| Christina Van Wingerden | Service Learning Specialist |
| Ivy Yap | Data Management & Assessment Specialist |
| Loran Zenonian | Development Director |
| Staff Support: | Karen Olstad, Operations Manager |