Business & Economy

Provost’s Faculty Salary Advisory Committee Members Named

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Jamie Winders today announced members of the 2023-24 Provost’s Faculty Salary Advisory Committee (PFSAC). The University-level group was established to provide Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer Gretchen Ritter with guidance on full-time faculty salary appeals.

Members are:

  • Susan Albring, professor of accounting, Whitman J. Whitman School of Management
  • Kevin Antshel, professor and associate chair of psychology, College of Arts and Sciences (A&S)
  • Kivanc Avrenli, professor of practice, Whitman School
  • Robert Bifulco, professor of public affairs and international affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
  • Harriet Brown, professor of magazine, news and digital journalism, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
  • PJ DiPietro, associate professor of women’s and gender studies and director of undergraduate studies, A&S
  • Natarajan Gautam, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Jonna Gilfus, associate teaching professor of writing studies, rhetoric and composition and director of undergraduate studies, A&S
  • Soo Yeon Hong, associate teaching professor of public relations and graduate program director, Newhouse School
  • Sandra Lane, professor of public health, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
  • Sinead MacNamara, associate professor of architecture, School of Architecture
  • Sudha Raj, teaching professor of nutrition and graduate director, Falk College
  • James Haywood Rolling Jr., professor of art education and teaching and leadership, College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and School of Education
  • Theresa Singleton, professor of anthropology, Maxwell School
  • Judy Teng, associate teaching professor and executive director of the Center for Online and Digital Learning, College of Professional Studies
  • Holly Thuma, associate professor of acting, VPA

“The PFSAC is tasked with providing key feedback and advice on faculty salary appeals and plays an important role in our efforts around salary transparency and equity,” Winders says. Members are jointly selected by Winders and the chair of the University Senate from a pool of nominees brought forward by deans and the senate agenda committee.

A new process for full-time faculty members seeking to appeal their current salary was recently established by the Office of Academic Affairs.

For each salary appeal, Winders will convene a subcommittee of nine PFSAC members based on disciplinary closeness with the faculty member whose case is under review. The subcommittee will not include faculty members who have had a prior role in a particular faculty salary appeals case or who come from the faculty member’s home department or unit.

The deadline for submitting faculty salary appeals for consideration by the PFSAC in this academic year is Friday, March 1. Appeals must first have been reviewed by the dean of the faculty member’s school or college.

More information about the salary appeals process is available online or by contacting the Office of Faculty Affairs at facultyaffairs@syr.edu.