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Executive Committee
2013-2014
Chairperson: Raghu Sundaram (Stern School of Business)
Vice Chairperson: Awam Amkpa (Tisch School of the Arts)
Secretary: Charlton McIlwain (Steinhardt School)
Immediate Past Chair: Ted Magder (Steinhardt School)
2012-2013
Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication
Ted Magder, FSC Chairperson
Steinhardt School
ted.magder@nyu.edu, Phone: (212) 998-5015
Website
Senator Magder is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where he served as department chair between 2003 and 2009. He has served on a variety of university task forces and committees, including the Undergraduate Academic Affairs Committee, the Human Resources Policies Assessment Task Force, and the Abu Dhabi Social Science Curriculum Committee. He is also Director of the Council for Media and Culture at NYU.
Senator Magder’s scholarly research examines the legal and regulatory regimes that structure and influence the flow of media and culture across borders. Recent publications explore the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Diversity in Cultural Expressions, online gambling and the World Trade Organization, and the general legal principles of world communication. He is completing a monograph to be called Regardless of Frontiers: The Legal Foundations of World Communication.
Associate Professor and Assistant Course Director Department of Physiology and Neuroscience
Marie Monaco, FSC Vice Chairperson
School of Medicine
marie.monaco@nyumc.org, (212) 263-4184
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Senator Monaco is in the second year of her first term on the FSC, having previously served as an active alternate in 2009-2010. Senator Monaco has served as a member of the Benefits Committee, the Grievance Committee and the Governance Committee, and currently chairs the Tenure Modifications Committee.
At the School of Medicine, Senator Monaco has served as a representative on the Faculty Council from the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience as well as President of the Council (2009-2010). She has chaired the Housing Committee, the Benefits and Tenure Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee, and has served on the Policy, Budget and Salaries Committee.
Senator Monaco is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience. She has co-directed the medical school Physiology Course and is currently a content director for, and a teacher in, the Endocrine Module of the new medical school curriculum. She also participates in the teaching of the Endocrine Surgery Selective for fourth year medical students. Senator Monaco conducts research in the field breast cancer under the auspices of a grant from the Department of Defense.
Associate Professor of Social Work
Mary Ann Jones, FSC Secretary
Silver School of Social Work
maryann.jones@nyu.edu, (212) 998-5972
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Senator Jones is serving her fourth term as the representative of the Silver School of Social Work to the Faculty Senators Council. She currently chairs the Faculty Benefits Committee of the Council.
Senator Jones is an Associate Professor at the Silver School, where she teaches in and chairs the Research Curriculum Area in the Master’s Program. Her research and professional background and interests include child and family welfare, psychotherapy research, the experience of LGBT individuals in psychotherapy, survey research methods, and applications of positive psychology.
Professor of Finance and Yamaichi Faculty Fellow
Rangarajan ("Raghu") Sundaram, FSC Chair-Elect
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
rsundara@stern.nyu.edu, (212) 998-0308
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Senator Sundaram is in the third year of his first term on the Council. He is a Yamaichi Faculty Fellow and Professor of Finance and teaches derivatives pricing and risk-management. He was formerly at the University of Rochester from 1988-96. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Madras, India, in 1982; his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, in 1984; and his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1988.
Senator Sundaram's research in finance covers a range of areas including agency problems, executive compensation, corporate finance, derivatives pricing, and credit risk & credit derivatives. He has also published extensively in mathematical economics, decision theory, and game theory. His research has appeared in leading academic journals in finance and economic theory including, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies, as also in several practitioner-oriented journals. He received the Jensen Award in 2001 from the Journal of Financial Economics and was a finalist for the Brattle Prize from the Journal of Finance in 2005.
Senator Sundaram is the author of A First Course in Optimization Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Derivatives: Principles and Practice (Mcgraw-Hill, 2010). He was Co-Editor of the Journal of Derivatives from 2002-08 and has served on several other editorial boards. In 2007, he became the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Stern School of Business.
Executive Committee of the Faculty Senators Council
Responsibilities of the Executive Committee
- oversees and organizes all Council activities
- meets twice per month or as needed to discuss FSC matters, prepare for meetings, appoint members to committees/taskforces, etc.
- meets a few times per semester with the President and a few times per semester with the Provost on behalf of the Council.
- appoints the chairs and members of the FSC and University Senate committees.
- nominates candidates for the positions of Senator-at-Large and Alternate Senator-at-Large.
- reviews all communications of the Faculty Senators Council
- The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Faculty Senators Council in accordance with Robert’s Rules. In the absence of the Chair, the Vice Chair shall preside at the meeting. In absence of both the Chair and the Vice Chair, the Secretary shall preside.
- The Secretary shall bear the ultimate responsibility for the minutes.
Nominations
- The Executive Committee appoints a Nominating Committee by January to consist of 3 members of the Council in the second year of their current terms or the first year of their successive terms.
- The Nominating Committee for the election of the Chair-elect includes, as an ex-officio member, the current Chair of the Council. The Nominating Committee for the election of the Vice Chair and Secretary includes, as an ex-officio, the Chair-elect.
- The Nominating Committee prepares a slate of at least two candidates for the position of Chair-elect to be announced in the notice of the January meeting.
- The Nominating Committee prepares a slate of at least two candidates for the positions of Vice Chair and Secretary to be announced in the notice of the April meeting.
Elections
- The Chair-elect is elected by secret ballot at the February meeting and will sit with the Executive Committee thereafter.
- The Vice Chair and the Secretary are elected by secret ballot at the May meeting.
Terms of Service
- The Chair-elect will become Chair following the May meeting of the Council and serve until the following May. In the rare instance that the Chair-elect is in his/her third year of service and is not reelected as Senator in his/her school, he/she would be nominated to serve one three-year term as Senator-at-Large. The Past Chair will continue to serve on the Executive Committee, even if he or she has completed his/her elected term of office as Faculty Senator. If the Chair serves a second consecutive term, the Past Chair may remain in office.
- The Vice Chair and the Secretary will take office following the May meeting of the Council and serve until the following May.
