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Committee on Special Appointment Faculty

The Committee on Special Appointment Faculty (CSAF) is composed of four to six elected Special Appointment Faculty plus the Dean of the Faculty and the Provost. Special Appointment Faculty are those individuals who are an instructor of a course or other activity for which students receive course credit and who are neither tenured, nor on the tenure track, nor in MSFEO, and report through the Provost. Election to CSAF is for a two-year term.

The Committee on Special Appointment Faculty acts as an advisory committee to the faculty, other faculty committees, and the administration regarding issues specific to faculty and instructional staff whose appointments are not tenure-track, tenured, or MSFEO.

The primary duties of the Committee on Special Appointment Faculty shall be:

  • To provide an open, safe, and, if necessary, anonymous communication channel for instructors outside of tenured and tenure-track positions to communicate issues that they face. 
  • To gather, summarize and communicate information about those issues.  
  • To maintain an ongoing historical record of the issues raised and efforts to resolve these issues. 
  • To consult on procedural issues and the development and implementation of policy about issues that affect those eligible for CSAF membership.

2025-2026 Members

Faculty:

Marianne Milligan, Environmental Studies and Linguistics, Chair

Jerald Dosch, Biology and Environmental Studies

Dave Ehren, The Science and Quantitative Center, Academic Success Center; Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

Tony Siebenaler-Ransom, Environmental Studies

Summer Hills-Boncyzk, Art and Art History

Lisa Gulya, Sociology

Ex Officio (non-voting):

Lisa Anderson-Levy, Executive Vice President and Provost

Tom Halverson, Dean of the Faculty