United Academics - Representatives

UA Executive Council, Delegates Assembly, and Department Representatives

On this page you will find the UA members who serve on the Executive Council and on the Delegates Assembly, or who are Departmental Representatives. You will also find UA's Convention Delegates and Organizational Affiliates.
For committee membership, go to the Committees page.

Executive Council

The United Academics Executive Council is made up of four Executive Officers, four Members-at-Large, and the elected Chairperson of the Delegates Assembly. The UA Executive Council is as follows:

President
David Shiman
533 Waterman Bldg.
656-1428

Vice-President
Kathy Fox
Department of Sociology
31 South Prospect St., Room 107
656-2170

Treasurer
Joseph Kudrle
Mathematics & Statistics
16 Colchester Ave., Room 302
656-4294

Secretary
Adrian Ivakhiv
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
153 South Prospect Street
656-0180

Delegates Assembly Chair
Jackie Weinstock
Leadership and Developmental Sciences
656-2058

Members-at-Large

Yolanda Flores
Romance Languages
Waterman Building, Room 506
656-3574

Beth Mintz
Sociology Department
31 South Prospect St., Room 204
656-2163

Brian Tokar
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
153 South Prospect Street
E-mail Brian Tokar

Denise Youngblood
History
Wheeler House, Room 302
E-mail Denise Youngblood

Communication Director

David Feurzeig
656-1498
E-Mail David Feurzeig

Delegates Assembly

Agriculture & Life Sciences

Brian Beckage, Plant Biology
656-0197

Don Ross, Plant & Soil Science
656-0138


Arts and Sciences

Moustapha Diouf, Sociology
656-2141

Meaghan Emery, Romance Languages
656-0972

Tina Escaja, Romance Languages
656-1361

Frank Nicosia, History
656-1432

Deb Noel, English
656-3312

Reecia Orzeck, Geography
656-8272

Larry Rudiger, Psychology
656-2670

Helen Scott, English
656-4172

Peter Jack Tkatch, Theatre
656-0086

Nancy Welch, English
656-4171


Business

David Jones, Business Administration
656-3302


Education & Social Services

Gale Burford, Social Work
656-8800

James Mosenthal, Education
656-3356

Jackie Weinstock, Integrated Prof. Studies
656-2058


Engineering and Mathematics

Tony Julianelle, Mathematics & Statistics
656-4352


Extension

Londa Nwadike, Nutrition & Food Sciences
(802) 223-2389


Libraries

Peter Spitzform, Bailey/Howe
656-2632


Natural Resources

Katharine Anderson, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
656-3111


Nursing & Health Sciences

Liz Adams, CMSI
656-0205

Mike Cannizzaro, CMSI
656-9725

Judy Cohen, Nursing
656-3382


Part-time Faculty

Patrick Brown, Geography
656-3060

Jay Moore, History
656-3180

Department Representatives

Animal Science

[vacant]

Anthropology

Robert Gordon
656-3884

Art

Stephen Carter
656-0544

Asian Languages and Literatures

Mutsumi Corson
656-1117

Biology

[vacant]

Business

David Novak
656-4043

Chemistry

[vacant]

Classics

Walter Roberts
656-9944

Communication Sciences

Dinah Smith
656-3861

Community Development & Applied Economics

Jay Ashman
656-0862

Computer Science

Alison Pechenick
656-2547

Economics

Catalina Vizcarra
656-0694

Education

Wes Williams
656-1129

Engineering

Nancy Hayden
656-1924

English

Susan Dinitz
656-7963

Richard Parent
656-3312

Extension

Londa Nwadike
(802) 223-2389

Geography

Reecia Orzeck
656-8272

Geology

Paul Bierman
656-4411

German and Russian

Kathleen Scollins
656-1474

History

Sean Stilwell
656-0828

Integrated Professional Studies

[vacant]

Dana Medical Library

Laura Haines
656-4143

Bailey Howe Library

Scott Schaffer
656-2503

Mathematics and Statistics

Richard Single
656-8631

Music

[vacant]

Nursing

Carol Buck-Rolland
656-3381

Nutrition and Food Sciences

[vacant]

Philosophy

[vacant]

Physics

Joanna Rankin
656-0051

Plant Biology

Tim Perkins
802-310-7469

Plant and Soil Science

[vacant]

Political Science

[vacant]

Psychology

Keith Burt
656-4285

Rehabilitation and Movement Science

[vacant]

Religion

Tom Borchert
656-3488

Romance Languages

McKew Devitt
656-1359

Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources

[vacant]

Social Work

Gale Burford, Social Work
656-8800

Sociology

[vacant]

Theatre

John Forbes
656-0084

Convention Delegates

The following members were elected at the Fall 2011 Membership Meeting on December 1 as the delegate pool for the biennial Convention of the American Federation of Teachers, the biennial and any special convention of the United Professions AFT Vermont, and the Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors and its Collective Bargaining Congress.

Sheila Boland Chira
Susan Dinitz
Douglas Fletcher
Yolanda Flores
John Forbes
Kathy Fox
Adrian Ivakhiv
Stephanie Kaza
Joe Kudrle
Beth Mintz
Jane Okech
Allison Pechenick
Julie Roberts
David Shiman
Brian Tokar
Jacqueline Weinstock
Denise Youngblood

Organizational Affiliates

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
1012 Fourteenth St., NW
Washington, DC 20005
1-800-424-2973
www.aaup.org

American Federation of Teachers
555 New Jersey Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
1-800-238-1133
www.aft.org

United Professions AFT Vermont
P.O. Box 948
Burlington, VT 05402
www.upvaft.org

UPV President:
Ben Johnson, 802-825-5864

Higher Education Consultant:
Steve Finner, 802-598-4317

Legislative Trustees

UVM is governed by a board of trustees, nine of whom are elected by the legislature. These legislative trustees are:

Bill Botzow (bbotzow@leg.state.vt.us)
Carolyn Branagan (cbranagan@leg.state.vt.us)
Christopher Bray (cbray@sover.net)
Harry Chen  (hchen@state.vt.us)
Joan Lenes (jlenes@leg.state.vt.us)
David Potter (dpotter@leg.state.vt.us)
Kesha Ram (kram@leg.state.vt.us)
Donna Sweaney (dsweaney@leg.state.vt.us)
Jeanette White (jwhite@leg.state.vt.us)

Last updated December 9, 2011