Faculty Council
Faculty Council is a representative, legislative and recommending body of the faculty at Monmouth University. The body consists of 6 at large members and 13 regular members representing 6 schools and the Library. Faculty also serves on 16 standing committees. Faculty Council, as authorized by the Monmouth University Board of Trustees, legislates in the following areas: standards for admission, registration, and retention of students; programs, curricula, and outcomes; requirements for earned degrees; standards for instruction; standards for college-funded research and professional development; professional responsibility; standards for academic freedom; qualifications for faculty rank and tenure. Responsibilities of the Faculty Council also include: development and review of academic policies and programs in order to maintain academic excellence and relevance; consideration, for presentation to the faculty, reports and proposals from the standing committees of the faculty, and creating ad hoc committees of the Council; initiating and presenting proposed legislation to the faculty; calling special meetings of the faculty; and acting in behalf of the faculty if there is insufficient time for a meeting of the faculty.
Executive Committee of the Council consists of the Chair, Vice Chair, Governance Secretary and an Executive Secretary. Executive Committee meets with the Provost, in a shared governance process, to set agendas for Faculty Council and Full Faculty meetings.
Faculty governance is a part of the shared governance process endorsed by the Monmouth University. Participation of faculty in the governing process is important as it assures academic health of the University and protects faculty rights.
Meeting Times
Faculty Council meets on the second Wednesday of November, December, February, April and May, and on the fourth Friday of September, October, January, February, March and April.
2023-2024 Officers & Members of Faculty Council


Kerry Carley-Rizzuto, Ed.D.
Associate Professor;
Early Childhood;
P-3 MEd Program Director
krizzuto@monmouth.edu
732-923-4619


William Schreiber, Ph.D.
Lecturer;
Coordinator, Medical Laboratory Science;
Faculty Council Governance Secretary
wschreib@monmouth.edu
732-571-4443
At Large
Pedram Daneshgar | Science | June 30, 2025 |
Patrick L. O’Halloran | Business | June 30, 2025 |
Rose Knapp | Nursing and Health Studies | June 30, 2024, on sabbatical, fall 2023 |
Jaime Myers | Nursing and Health Studies | December 31, 2023 |
Kerry Carley-Rizzuto | Education | June 30, 2024 |
Nicholas Sewitch | Humanities and Social Sciences | June 30, 2025 |
Anne Depak | Social Work | June 30, 2025 |
Guggenheim Memorial Library
George Germek | Library | June 30, 2025 |
Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Area I
Kristin Bluemel | English | June 30, 2025 |
Bill Gorman | History | June 30, 2024 |
Matt Harmon | Communication | June 30, 2024 |
Area II
John Comiskey | Criminal Justice | June 30, 2025 |
Michele Van Volkom | Psychology | June 30, 2024 |
Joanne Jodry | Professional Counseling | June 30, 2025 |
Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies
Andi Hope | Health Studies | June 30, 2025 |
Leon Hess Business School
John Burke | Economics, Finance and Real Estate | Spring, 2025 |
Minna Yu | Accounting | June 30, 2024 |
School of Science
Torrey Gallagher | Mathematics | June 30, 2024 |
Bill Schreiber | Chemistry & Physics | June 30, 2024 |
School of Education
Lily Steiner | Curriculum and Instruction | June 30, 2024, on sabbatical fall 2023 |
Danielle Frith | Special Education | December 31, 2023 |
School of Social Work
Ralph Cuseglio | Social Work | June 30, 2025, on leave fall 2023 |
Michelle Scott | Social Work | December 31, 2023 |
Faculty Council Representative to FAMCO: TBD (June 30, 2024)
FAMCO Representative to Faculty Council: TBD (June 30, 2024)