Fall Academic Staff governance leaders elected

Three incumbents and one new member have been elected to the Academic Staff Executive Committee, the executive committee of the Academic Staff Assembly, for this fall.

Academic staff on the UW–Madison campus re-elected Linda Newman, senior student services coordinator in the School of Education and current ASEC chair, and Lawrence Casper, assistant dean for research and technology transfer in the College of Engineering and associate director of university-industry relations. Newly-elected were Bruce Beck, senior policy and planning analyst in the office of budget planning and analysis, and Belinda Velazquez, outreach specialist with the Graduate School at the Waisman Center. Beck was appointed to ASEC by the assembly earlier this year to fill an unexpired term.

They join Greg Iaccarino, Nellie Laughlin, Karen Schwarz and Gail Snowden, who are in the middle of their three-year terms on ASEC, and Frank Kooistra, who was recently appointed by ASEC to fill Nancy Westphal-Johnson’s term until June 2003.

ASEC is the day-to-day administrative executive committee for the Academic Staff Assembly. The committee communicates with the university administration and the faculty senate on issues of shared governance. ASEC is often called upon to consider topics before passing them on for the full assembly to consider.