{"id":47456,"date":"2017-05-04T08:53:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=47456"},"modified":"2017-05-04T08:53:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T15:53:43","slug":"faculty-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/faculty-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Senate elects new leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Arizona University Faculty Senate met May 1\u00a0and elected <strong>Gioia Woods<\/strong>, associate professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/cal\/ccs\/\">Department of Comparative and Cultural Studies<\/a>, as the Faculty Senate president for 2016-2017.\u00a0Woods replaces <strong>Bruce Fox<\/strong>, who stepped down after serving in this capacity since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the executive team are <strong>Dan Eadens<\/strong> as vice president; Kate Ellis as secretary; <strong>Ishmael Munene<\/strong> as parliamentarian; <strong>Dorothy Dunn <\/strong>as treasurer; and <strong>Benning Tieke<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Laura Blocher<\/strong> as senators at large.<\/p>\n<p>The Faculty Senate is the highest legislative assembly of faculty, with representatives from each college across campus. The senate operates under policies set by the Arizona Board of Regents.<\/p>\n<p>The Faculty Senate meeting calendar and policies are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Faculty-Senate\/\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/faculty-senate\/\">The Northern Arizona University Faculty Senate met May 1\u00a0and elected Gioia Woods, associate professor in the Department of Comparative and Cultural Studies, as the Faculty Senate president for 2016-2017.\u00a0Woods replaces Bruce Fox, who stepped down after serving in this capacity since 2015. Other members of the executive team are Dan Eadens as vice president; Kate&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":46789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}