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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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Sociology department winter highlights

Breckinridge

Breckenridge

Brown

Brown

Soares

Soares

Taplin

Taplin

Yamane

Yamane

 

 

 

 

Saylor Breckenridge is completing his two-year rotation as the director of the National Science Foundation’s sociology program, where he manages the program’s approximately $10 million annual budget. He recently presented on “big data” research at the “The Big (Data) Bang: Prospects and Challenges for the Future” session as part of The Dupont Summit, in Washington D.C.

In March, Hana Brown and her co-researcher from the University of Notre Dame, Jennifer Jones, were awarded $22,954 by the Russell Sage Foundation to research the determinants of state immigration policy in new immigration destinations.

Throughout March, Joseph Soares participated in the discussions of both the first national study of test-optional colleges and the upcoming reforms to the SAT in outlets such as Inside Higher Ed, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and The New York Times Magazine.

In January, Ian Taplin gave the annual Global Futures Lecture at The Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art, Design & Media, University of Southampton, England. In February, he was one of the keynote speakers at the N.C. Wine Growers annual meeting in Winston-Salem.

In February David Yamane published, “Becoming Catholic: Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape” (Oxford University Press) — the first book-length study of Roman Catholic converts in contemporary America.

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