{"id":5,"date":"2026-02-06T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:59:39","slug":"committee-on-special-appointment-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee on Special Appointment Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"introduction block-container\" >\n    <div class=\"introduction__content\">\n    \t        \t<p class=\"introduction__copy\">The Committee on Special Appointment Faculty (CSAF) is composed of four to six elected Special Appointment Faculty plus the Dean of the Faculty and the Provost. Special Appointment Faculty are those individuals who are an instructor of a course or other activity for which students receive course credit and who are neither tenured, nor on the tenure track, nor in MSFEO, and report through the Provost. Election to CSAF is for a two-year term. <br><br>\r\n\r\nThe Committee on Special Appointment Faculty acts as an advisory committee to the faculty, other faculty committees, and the administration regarding issues specific to faculty and instructional staff whose appointments are not tenure-track, tenured, or MSFEO.  \r\n<\/p>\n    \t    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p> The primary duties of the Committee on Special Appointment Faculty shall be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To provide an open, safe, and, if necessary, anonymous communication channel for instructors outside of tenured and tenure-track positions to communicate issues that they face.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To gather, summarize and communicate information about those issues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To maintain an ongoing historical record of the issues raised and efforts to resolve these issues.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To consult on procedural issues and the development and implementation of policy about issues that affect those eligible for CSAF membership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025-2026 Members<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Marianne Milligan, Environmental Studies and Linguistics, <em>Chair<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerald Dosch, Biology and Environmental Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave Ehren, The Science and Quantitative Center, Academic Success Center; Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tony Siebenaler-Ransom, Environmental Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer Hills-Boncyzk, Art and Art History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Gulya, Sociology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ex Officio (non-voting):<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Anderson-Levy, Executive Vice President and Provost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Halverson, Dean of the Faculty<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary duties of the Committee on Special Appointment Faculty shall be: 2025-2026 Members Faculty: Marianne Milligan, Environmental Studies and Linguistics, Chair Jerald Dosch, Biology and Environmental Studies Dave Ehren, The Science and Quantitative Center, Academic Success Center; Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Tony Siebenaler-Ransom, Environmental Studies Summer Hills-Boncyzk, Art and Art History Lisa Gulya, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/csaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}