Faculty Senate elects 2021-2022 Executive Committee officers
The Wake Forest Faculty Senate has elected officers for the 2021-2022 year. The Faculty Senate is an advisory group of thirty-seven elected faculty members from the seven Schools of Wake Forest University. It represents faculty in matters of academics and research, as well as policies and procedures that affect faculty and the student educational experience.
The Senate Executive Committee meets regularly with the Provost and Dean of the Medical School to speak on behalf of University faculty to advise on policy decisions affecting faculty, staff and broader the University community.
2021-2022 Executive Committee:
- Matthew Phillips (Business), president
- Tracey Banks (Law), vice president
- Saylor Breckenridge (Sociology), secretary
- Arjun “Raja” Chatterjee (Medicine), at-large member of the Executive Committee
New officers, along with the senators elected this spring by each academic unit, begin their terms on April 1. This is a shift from earlier summer rotations designed to help the Senate build momentum and most effectively serve and represent faculty members.
Visit the Faculty Senate site to learn more.
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Matthew Phillips named Charles M. Hewitt Master Teacher
Wake Forest University School of Business faculty member Matthew Phillips has been named the Charles M. Hewitt Master Teacher by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), the international organization of professors who teach law in business schools.
Phillips, a professor of practice in business law and ethics, teaches across the School’s undergraduate and graduate programs. He is also associate dean of the working professional MBA programs and Bern Beatty Fellow.
“I was excited about the opportunity to show my business law colleagues some of the exciting work we’re doing at Wake Forest,” Phillips said. “Any award is humbling, but it’s a special honor to be recognized by colleagues from across the country.”
The annual award recognizes faculty members who incorporate new subject matter, cultural shifts and advances in pedagogy and technology into their courses. The ALSB advances legal studies in business education and is the professional home for approximately 1,000 legal studies researchers and educators.
Named one of four finalists in the spring, Phillips presented his proposal, “Legal Analysis in Context for Managers,” at the ALSB annual meeting in Philadelphia on Aug. 10. His session used a case about accommodation of religious practice in employment to help undergraduate students learn how to do legal analysis.
“We start with an exercise in which students present the legal arguments for being allowed to delay a business law test if their roommate is sick based on a couple of ‘case precedents,’” Phillips explained. “Once we established the function and importance of legal analysis, we shift to the employment case. This is a way of doing two very different things – exploring practical competence in legal analysis and conceptual knowledge about employment discrimination – at the same time.”
Phillips received undergraduate and law degrees from Wake Forest and a Master of Divinity degree from Duke University. He is admitted to practice law before state and federal courts of North Carolina, the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court. As an instrument-rated pilot, Phillips enjoys flying single-engine planes, and he is a pilot and legal officer in the Civil Air Patrol (the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary).
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Phillips named associate dean for working professional programs
Wake Forest University School of Business is pleased to announce Matthew T. Phillips has been named associate dean for working professional programs.
“Matthew brings a deep understanding of our working professional programs, as well as passion for these programs,” said Gordon McCray, vice dean of programs. “Given his multifaceted background and familiarity with our working professional offerings, I look forward to the diverse perspectives and creativity he will bring to his new position.”
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Working Professional MBA programs #1 in North Carolina and #20 in the nation and Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the program #27 in the nation. The part-time MBA program, designed for working professionals, is offered at Wake Forest’s main campus in Winston-Salem in the evening, and evenings and Saturdays at the Wake Forest University Charlotte Center in Uptown.
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July 2013 faculty milestones
See a list of employment milestones reached by faculty in July 2013: Read more
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