FROM THE CHAIR:

The University Faculty Senate recommended to the Interim Provost the adoption and implementation University wide these practices to guide rank, tenure and evaluative processes at colleges or academic units with fewer than three tenured faculty.  

 

Congratulations to the 2026  Marquette Fellowship Recipients:  

 

Amrita Datta, Assistant Professor Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Preparation and Writing of a research article tentatively titled: Empowering Youth Through Cancer Literacy: A school-university partnership initiative in the Greater New Orleans Area.

Michael Doosey, Assistant Professor Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Vertebrae Development and Segmentation in the Caudal Region of Bony Fishes.

Laurie Earls, Assistant Professor Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Mechanism of a novel micropeptide that impacts memory in the aging brain.

Allison Edgren, Assistant Professor History, College of Arts & Sciences, For They Are Unfamiliar with the Language and the Land: Charitable Support for Refugees in Fifteenth-Century Vienna.

Victoria Laugalis, Assistant Professor Criminology & Justice, College of Arts & Sciences, The effects of social environment on the brain during mate choice: a study funding undergraduate research of the túngara frog at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

 

The Executive Council is empowered to make decisions for the Senate when it is impossible to gather a quorum.  The constitution of the senate.

"It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue, this is the only way to peace."  Pope Francis.

University Senate Executive Council—2026-2027

 

 

• Victoria Vega, Chair, CMM, Music Therapy ext. 2142, vpvega@loyno.edu. View Bio
  
  

 

• Natasha Bingham, Vice Chair, CAS, Political Science ext. 2794, nbingham@loyno.edu. View Bio

         

 

• Anna Duggar, Secretary, CAS, Chemistry and Biochemistry, ext. 2989, aduggar@loyno.edu. View Bio

        

 

• Sarah Allison, At-Large, A&S, English, ext. 2261, sallison@loyno.edu. View Bio

         

 

• Annie McGlynn-Wright, At-Large, CAS, Sociology ext. 3581, aemcglyn@loyno.edu. View Bio

          

 

• Dianna Whitfield, Counseling, CNH, Counseling, Recording Secretary, ext. 7848, dhwhitfi@loyno.edu. View Bio 
  
  

 

2026-2027 Schedule of Meetings

All meetings are held on Thursdays (generally the third Thursday of the month) from 3:30 - 5 pm in Multimedia Room I in the J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library and via zoom, except for the last meeting of the year in May.

September 17, 2026	January 21, 2027
October 15, 2026	February 18, 2027
November 19, 2026	March 18, 2027
December 10, 2026	April 15, 2027
	May 6, 2027* 9 - 10:30 a.m.