Faculty Disabilities Concerns

Chair

  • Douglas Greenfield, CLA, douglass.greenfield@temple.edu

Members

  • Douglas Greenfield, (Chair), CLA, douglass.greenfield@temple.edu
  • Evangelia Bellas, COE, evangelia.bellas@temple.edu
  • Lisa Ferretti, SSW, lisa.ferretti@temple.edu
  • Jean Boyer, CEHD, jean.boyer@temple.edu

Ex-Officio:

  • Kate Fialkowski, Institute on Disabilities, kate.fialkowski@temple.edu

Available Slots:

  • Two full time faculty members

(Updated December 3rd, 2025)

 

Charge

- Making recommendations about issues affecting faculty with disabilities and their inclusion in the university community;

- Making recommendations that enhance faculty's ability to meaningfully include students with disabilities in their classes as well as the university community as a whole;

- Providing liaison between the faculty and the Office of Disabilities Resources and Services (DRS).

    Composition

     

    Membership shall consist of six faculty members appointed by the FSSC to serve three-year terms with initial appointments to be staggered with two one-year terms, two two-year terms, and two three-year terms. Initial appointees may be reappointed. No appointee may ordinarily serve more than two consecutive three-year terms. Additionally, one graduate student and one undergraduate student shall serve on the committee as non-voting members. Students will be selected from a list of nominees from TUGSA and Student Government for graduate and undergraduate student, respectively.

     

    It is highly recommended that the Director of DRS or her/his designee serve as an ex-officio member of this committee.

     

    (Approved December 4, 2015)

    Committee Reports

    '22-'23: Committee on Faculty Disabilities Concerns - PDF