Ten vying for Senate seat on police oversight panel
Ten candidates are seeking the Faculty Senate member seat on the university’s Police Department Oversight Committee.
The committee considers grievances against police officers and the U-M Police Department. It may make recommendations to the executive director of the Division of Public Safety and Security.
The six-member committee includes two students, two faculty members (one Senate faculty and one non-Senate faculty) and two staff members (one union and one non-union).
Committee members are nominated and elected by their peers through separate processes and serve two-year terms.
The 10 candidates for the Senate seat are:
- Ajjai Alva, Maisel Research Professor of Translational/Clinical Oncology and clinical professor of internal medicine, Medical School.
- Nick Camp, assistant professor of organizational studies, and of psychology, LSA.
- Erica Campagnaro, clinical associate professor of internal medicine, Medical School.
- Michael Robert Hickok, lecturer I in history, LSA.
- Victor Hong, clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Michigan Medicine.
- Nancy Khalil, assistant professor of American culture, LSA.
- Kathleen Kruse, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, Medical School.
- Pamela Smock, professor of sociology, LSA; and research professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research.
- David Tindle, clinical associate professor of dentistry, School of Dentistry.
- Golfo Tzilos Wernette, associate professor of family medicine, and of psychiatry, Medical School.
Voting will open at 8 a.m. Oct. 23 and run through Oct. 29. Faculty Senate members can find more information about the election on the Faculty Senate website.
