Is the Focus Group largely faculty?

According to a 27 Oct 2003 handout, eight Focus Group members will participate in the Group's meetings during Fall Semester. A ninth participant will be Ed Poppell, who convenes the Focus Group and chairs the meetings.

N.B.: The six original members of the Focus Group were appointed by President Young on 26 Mar 2003. Poppell often refers to the Focus Group as the "24th Avenue Task Force" but Young still uses "Focus Group."

At the 16 Oct 2003 meeting of the Faculty Senate, President Young stated that the Focus Group consisted mostly of faculty. As you can see in the analysis below, that depends on how one classifies faculty who hold administrative appointments.

Administrators (2 + 1)
*Joseph Joyce, Executive Associate Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources
*Dave Stopka, Associate Director, Student Affairs, College of Health & Human Performance

Ed Poppell, Vice President of Finance and Administration (convenes the Group and chairs the meetings)

Tenured faculty with administrative appointments (3)
*Charles Frazier, Senior Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (and Professor)
James Heaney, Chair, Environmental Engineering Sciences (and Professor)
John Ingram, Associate Director University Libraries (and University Librarian)

Faculty (3)
Tenured
P. J. van Blokland, Professor, Food & Resource Economics

Non-tenured but tenure-track
Ata Sarajedini, Assistant Professor, Astronomy

Non-tenured, non-tenure-track
Mark Clark, Research Assistant Professor, Soil & Water Science

Inactive and former members
*Tom Crisman (on sabbatical), Program Director, College of Engineering (and Professor)
*Tina Gurucharri (on sabbatical), Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
*Gail Sasnett (replaced by Ata Sarajedini), Associate Dean, College of Law (and Lecturer)

*Original members (appointed 26 Mar 2003).