Stanford
Faculty Senate

45th Faculty Senate

Welcome to the 45th Senate of the Academic Council. If you are looking for documents listed below that do not have active links, please contact aemory@stanford.edu. 

Ray Levitt, Senate Chair

Professor Ray Levitt

Ray Levitt is the Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. Professor Levitt graduated from Witwatersrand University in South Africa with a BSCE Cum Laude. He did his graduate work at Stanford, earning his PhD in 1975. He has been at Stanford since 1980 and served in the Senate for 5 years, including 2 years on the Steering Committee and one year on the Committee on Committees.

45th Steering Committee of the Senate 

The Steering Committee (StC) of the Senate sets the Senate agenda, confers degrees for the Summer, Autumn and Winter quarters, and serves at Administrative Sessions of the StC to review undergraduate and graduate programs on behalf of the Senate. StC members are elected each year by the Senate. Joining Chair Levitt are 

  • Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Comparative Literature, vice chair
  • Professor Linda Boxer, Medicine 
  • Professor Michele Elam, English 
  • Professor Susan Holmes, Statistics
  • Associate Professor (Teaching) Jay Mitchell, Law
  • Senior Fellow Stephen Stedman, Freeman Spogli Institute 
  • Professor Mark Zoback, Geophysics 
  • Provost John Etchemendy, ex officio
  • Academic Secretary Rex Jamison, ex officio

Senate Membership

SENATE 45 ROSTER BY NAME
 

Senate Minutes 

Autumn Quarter 

  • 10/11/12
  • 10/25/12
  • 11/8/12
  • 12/6/12

Winter Quarter

  • 1/24/13
  • 2/7/13
  • 2/21/13
  • 3/7/13

Spring Quarter

  • 5/2/13
  • 5/16/13
  • 5/30/13
  • 6/13/13

Annual Academic Council Meeting

President Hennessy convenes the Academic Council faculty annually to deliver a state of the university address.  The Senate Chair reports on the highlights of the Senate.
Academic Council Minutes of April 18, 2013
 

Administrative Sessions of the StC on Behalf of the Senate 

The StC holds administrative sessions on an as needed basis to hear routine or administrative matters that would otherwise come before the full Senate.  This allows the Senate to spend more time on issues that need broader discussion and debate prior to action. All Senators are welcome to attend administrative sessions. 

Winter Quarter                                     
3/07/13                                                    

Spring Quarter
5/30/13