2025-2026 Resolutions, Motions and Initiatives

The Faculty Senate approved the following members of the Committee on Cause on October 8, 2025: 

• Jon Guryan, Professor, Education and Social Policy (SESP) — Chair
• Nick Cianciotto, Professor, Microbiology-Immunology (Feinberg)
• Caryn Ward, Professor, Journalism Undergrad (Medill)
• TJ Billard, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies (SoC)
• Vicente Garcia Tomas, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology (Feinberg)
• Julia Oliver Rajan, Associate Professor of Instruction, Spanish and Portuguese (WCAS)
• Heather Risser, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behav. Sciences (Feinberg)
• Greg Miller, Professor, Psychology (WCAS)

The Faculty Senate approved the following slate of standing committee chairs on October 8, 2025:

• Ravi Jagannathan, Professor, Finance (Kellogg): Budget and Planning
• Jon Guryan, Professor, Education and Social Policy (SESP): Committee on Cause
• Jacqueline Babb, Senior Lecturer, Int. Marketing Communications (Medill): Educational Affairs
• Ann Bradlow, Professor, Linguistics (WCAS): Faculty Handbook
• Mark Alznauer, Associate Professor, Philosophy (WCAS): Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
• Danny M. Cohen, Professor of Instruction, Non-Tenure (SESP): Faculty Survey
• Andrew Koppelman, Professor, Law Instruction (Pritzker): Governance
• Cat Fabian, Clinical Assistant Professor, Non-Tenure (SoC): Non-Tenure Eligible
• Pablo Durango-Cohen, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (McCormick): Research Affairs
• Ian Horswill, Associate Professor, Computer Science (McCormick): Salary and Benefits
• Kasey Evans, Associate Professor, English (WCAS): Social Responsibility
• Ana Maria Acosta, Associate Professor, Phys. Thpy. and Hum. Mov. Sci. (Feinberg): Student Affairs