2025 Staff Senate election results

Staff Senate recently conducted elections for the next academic year.

Newly elected senators are:

Meghan Arbegast	Matt Diischer	Erin McCall
Shelby Barta	Tara Ferkinhoff	Maddison Melquist
Jordan Bentz	Madison Gavle	Brooke Ruebke
Shashi Bhushan	Audra Hart	Sophie Rygh
Karen Blake	Megan Hubbard	Brigit Sprenger
Kendall Brekken	Rose Jackson	Zach Thomas
Zachary Brist	Nicole Jurkic	Heidi Vanlaningham
Connor Copeland	Amy Knudson	Lori Witt
Sarah Crary	Michael Landblom
Kylee Davis	Shea Mattingly

Senators who were reelected for a new term are Nazrin Ferdousi, RoseE Hadden, Corey Landowski, Ethan Smith, Kristi Steinmann, and Shiloh Susag. All senators serve a two year term.

Executive and committee positions

Staff Senate also elected Shiloh Susag as president, and he will serve one year as president-elect before becoming president for the following year. Also occurring at the meeting was a transition in the president role from Kay Hopkins to Joshua “Shwa” Schroetter, who will serve as president over the next 12 months.

Nancy Boyle was elected as chair for the Access and Opportunity Committee.

For the open Executive Committee roles, Jennifer Young was elected as secretary and Corey Landowski, Jeremy Kopp and Kristi Steinmann were elected as members at large.

For the open Staff Senate Joint Committee positions, Ben Bernard, Jennifer Young, and Megan Hubbard were elected to the Campus Space and Facilitates Committee; Ben Bernard was reelected as the IT Committee Member; Alicia Laferriere was reelected as the Learning Space Advisory Committee Member and Library Committee Member; Shea Mattingly and Connor Copeland were elected as University Athletics Committee Members; and Corey Landowski was elected to State Staff Senate.

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