Faculty Hearing Committee

Membership

The Faculty Hearing Committee shall be composed of fifteen elected tenured faculty members, who are not concurrently members of the Faculty Grievance and Mediation Committee.

Name Department College Term Expires
Isabel Castro-Vazquez

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

 CLA 2025 
Germán De Patricio Foreign Languages CLA 2026
Daniel Hanna

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

CLA 2025
Christian Koot History CLA 2027
Karla Kubitz Kinesiology CHP 2027
Tesfaye T. Lemma

Accounting

CBE 2025
Elin Lobel, CHAIR Kinesiology CHP 2026
Michelle Manasse, SECRETARY Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminial Justice  CLA 2026
Stephen Nunns Theatre Arts COFAC 2027
Doug Pryor

Sociology, Antropology & Criminal Justice 

CLA  2025
Keith Reber

Chemistry

FCSM 2027
Marcia Vandiver Elementary Education COE 2027
Faith Weeks Biology FCSM 2026
Yongchen Zhao

 Economics

CBE  2025

 Meetings

The Faculty Hearing Committee meets once at the beginning of the academic year to elect a chair and then as needed throughout the year.  

Responsibilities

According to the Academic Senate Constitution, the responsibilities of the Faculty Hearing Committee include:

  1. To insure academic due process and academic freedom at Towson University. 
  2. To perform the duties assigned to it by Section I-A-7 of "Towson University Policy Statement on Appointment, Rank, and Tenure of Faculty."