Staff Advisory Committee (SAC) Members

It is recommended that the Staff Advisory Committee of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences be composed of 9 members. The Assistant to the Dean should be a Committee member ex officio. This person will serve as liaison between the Committee and the Dean of the College.

The following general guidelines are suggested to define the composition of the Committee and Service terms of the Committee members:

All major departments - geography, geosciences, materials science and engineering, meteorology, and Energy and Mineral Engineering - should be represented by one member each. The member should be recommended by the Department Head to the Dean who will make the appointment.

Four members should be recommended by the Associate Dean for Research to the Dean of the College for appointment from the Dean's Office and Administration and the Research Section (Finance Office, Institutes and Shop).

Items above provide a mechanism for balancing the Committee composition to assure the representation of all groups and reflect the proportion of staff classifications in the College. It is important to include adequate representation of each employee classification group. The number of representation should change to reflect future adjustments in staff groups. Consideration should be given to assure diversity in the selection of committee members.

Committee Members
Alphabetical order left to right

Rachel Altemus Energy Geo-Environmental Engineering 116 Hosler Building Phone: 865-3439 Email: rla7@psu.edu	Mary Corman Geosciences 503 Deike Building Phone: 865-2622 Email: mcorman@geosc.psu.edu
Stacy Davidson Materials Science and Engineering 124 Steidle Building Phone: 865-5765 Email: sjp123@psu.edu	Denise Kowalski Environmental Systems Institute 2217 Earth Engineering Sciences Building Phone: 865-1718 Email: dgk8@psu.edu
Barbara Rigg Graduate Education and Research 244 Deike Building Phone: 865-9787 Email: ber2@psu.edu	Linda Spangler Deans Offices Ryan Family Student Center 14 Deike Building Phone: 863-2751 Email: spangler@ems.psu.edu
Erin Swinney Energy Institute C211 Coal Utilization Lab Phone: 863-1333 Email: ems21@psu.edu	Abby Witman Geography 302 Walker Building Phone: 865-3433 Email: aaw12@psu.edu
Diane Yoder Meteorology Department 503 Walker Building Phone: 865-3663 Email: xdy2@psu.edu

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Terms of office of Committee members should be for three years with four of the terms expiring each year. There should be no limit on the number of terms a member may serve. A new representative will be recommended to the Dean for appointment by the appropriate area should a member find it necessary to resign from the Committee. Members must be willing to serve on the Committee. The appointments of the members representing the major academic departments should be structured so that each year two of the departments will be putting forth a recommendation of a representative to the Committee.

The Committee members shall select a chairperson, vice chairperson, and a secretary at the September meeting to serve one year terms.

The Committee shall meet monthly or as often as necessary and practical to address issues and concerns of the EMS staff and to further the goals of the College.