Past Senate Presidents

The Senate was organized on May 29, 1969 and had a first meeting on October, 1969. The previous senate “dissolved itself and reorganized with certain administrative ex-officio members.” This reorganized senate is essentially what we have today.

The previous incarnation of the Senate was proposed in a constitution in 1952. The first meeting was on May 21, 1952. Meetings under this version were chaired by the president of the university (Rodes and then Van Arsdale) with occasional substitutes to chair a meeting, principally Dean Sipple (Dean of the University, perhaps). For this senate, there were “permanent” members and “elected” members. The permanent members included the president, Executive VP, VPAA, all the college deans, all the department chairs, all full professors, and a variety of other people like the library director, registrar, director of summer school, admissions, adult education, … . There were 15 elected members.