CC.03.01
April 22, 2002

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN SENATE

Committee on Committees
(Final - Action)

CC.03.01 Nominations for Membership on the University Senates Conference (USC)

Background

There are nine (9) representatives from the Urbana campus to the University Senates Conference. Continuing members of the Urbana delegation to the USC, and the years their terms expire:

Thomas Conry	ENGR	2003
Robert Fossum	LAS	2003
Edwin Herricks	ENGR	2004
Nancy O'Brien	LIBR	2004
Robert Rich	LAW	2003
Bryan White	ACES	2004

Nominations

The following faculty senators are nominated for three-year terms on USC, expiring in 2005. (See below for bio-sketches of each nominee.) If no additional nominations are made, the three (3) nominees below will be declared elected:

Michael Grossman	ACES
David Sisson	VMED
Priscilla Yu	LIBR

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Michael R. Murphy, Chair
Bruce Geryk
Ronald Peters
John Prussing
Josh St. Peters
Billie Theide
Amanda Vinicky
Emily Watts

Nominations from the floor must be accompanied by the nominee's signed statement of willingness to serve if elected. The statement shall be dated and include the name of the position to be filled. If present, the nominee's oral statement will suffice.

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Michael Grossman

Michael Grossman is Professor of Genetics in Animal Sciences and of Biometrics in Statistics. His research and teaching are in population and quantitative genetics and in mathematical modeling in life sciences. He has served in the UIUC Senate (1988-93, 1997-99) on Educational Policy Committee (1989-91 and 1991-93, vice-chair), General University Policy Committee (1997-99, chair), Senate Executive Committee (1997-99) and Ad-hoc Committee on Tenure Issues (1997-99). At the campus level, he has served on the Search Committee for Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (1998) and on the Promotion and Tenure Committee (1998-2000). He has served on the College of ACES Executive Committee (1982-84; 1989-91; and 1996-97, vice-chair), and was elected to serve again for 2002-04. He chaired the college's Bylaw Revision Committee from 1994-98, and served as a member from 1999-2000. He has served also as Associate Dean of the Graduate College (half-time, 1989-92), as Associate Head of Animal Sciences (1998), and as first Chair of the Executive Committee for the campus-wide Genetics Program (1992-95). He participated in the SAES/ESCOP Leadership Development Course (1992-93) for ACES.

David Sisson

David Sisson is a Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine. He is the director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Service of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His research interests include development of biochemical markers of developing myocardial disease, neurohormonal responses to left ventricular dysfunction, cardiac imaging. and the development of nonsurgical intervents for treating congenital heart disease. In the Fall, 2001 he received the College of Veterinary Medicine's all-around excellence award for teaching, research and service. A strong proponent of faculty governance and faculty rights, he has served three terms in the academic senate and most recently served on the University Policy and Procedures Committee.

Priscilla Yu

Priscilla C. Yu is Professor of Library Administration and Head of the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library at the University Library. Her research interests include Chinese academic libraries, administration, collection development, international exchange, and the meeting of East Asian and Western libraries and values. She is an active member and served in a variety of positions in both the national American Library Association (ALA) and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA).

She is currently serving as Chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (division of ALA), International Relations Committee, Board of Directors of CALA; on the campus level, she has been Chair, UIUC Senate Equal Opportunity Committee, currently serving on the Campus Diversity Initiative Committee, ex officio member of the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women, Chair, Library and Media Subcommittee of the Asian-American Studies Program, and the College of Fine and Applied Arts Library Committee; in the Library she is serving on the Faculty Review Committee, Task Force on the International Strategy for the University Library, Friends Supplementary Funds Committee, Interdisciplinary Serials Committee, and served as Chair, Library Research and Publication Committee. In 1999, she was the recipient of the Chinese American Librarians Association's 1999 Distinguished Service Award.