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Faculty, staff senates elect officers

UB’s faculty and professional staff have elected new officers for their governance bodies.

Ezra Zubrow, professor of anthropology, has been elected chair of the Faculty Senate.

Ann Marie Landel, customer support analyst, Academic Services CIT, has been elected chair of the Professional Staff Senate.

Both will serve two-year terms, effective July 1. They succeed Robert Hoeing and Janiece Kiedrowski, respectively, both of whom served the maximum two consecutive terms as chair.

Also elected to two-year terms as PSS officers are Laura (Laurie) Barnum, senior assistant vice president for resource planning and information management in the Office of the Provost, who was elected vice chair, and Mary Henesey, assistant director of web services, who will become recording secretary.

The Faculty Senate did not elect a secretary; the post remains vacant as of press time.

A UB faculty member since 1977, Zubrow currently sits on the senate’s Executive Committee as one of four members representing the College of Arts and Sciences. He also has served as a member and chair of the senate’s Computer Services Committee.

He worked extensively with the senate during his term as president and vice president for academics of the Buffalo Center Chapter of United University Professions (UUP), the union representing SUNY faculty and professional staff.

Landel joined the UB professional staff in December 1977 as a computer operator. She served as PSS vice chair for the past four years, and also has been a senator and Executive Committee member, as well as a member and chair of numerous PSS committees.

Diversity workshop offered

“Valuing & Respecting Differences” will be the topic of a free brown bag workshop to be presented by the Professional Staff Senate’s Diversity Committee from noon to 1 p.m. April 6 in 210 Student Union, North Campus.

The speaker will be Raechele Pope, associate professor of educational leadership and policy in the Graduate School of Education and an expert in multicultural education. Her research examines the components of a multicultural environment and the strategies, competencies and practices necessary to create and maintain such campus environments. Pope’s work has focused specifically on multicultural organization development in higher education, multicultural competence for student affairs administrators and psychosocial development of college students of color.

Participants are encouraged to bring their lunch. Cookies, brownies and beverages will be provided.

For more information, contact the PSS office at 645-2003.