First Year Experience Committee

WHO is in F.Y.E.C.?

First Year Experience Committee 2024-2025
NAME POSITION INFORMATION CONTACT

Susanna Jones, Co-Chair

  • Ex-Officio, or designee
  • Faculty
  • First-Year Experience Director 
  • Faculty member
  • Voting member
 susjones@sfsu.edu

Evan Jaynes, Co-Chair

  • Ex-Officio, or designee
  • Student Affairs
  • First-Year Experience Director
  • Student Affairs
  • Voting member
 jaynes@sfsu.edu

Kent Lorenz

  • Ex-Officio, or designee
  • GE Director
  • Voting member
 kalorenz@sfsu.edu

Emmanuel Padilla

  • Ex-Officio, or designee
  • DUEAP
  • Representative from Equity and Community Inclusion
  • Voting member
 emmanuelpadilla@sfsu.edu

Herman Lee

  • Ex-Officio, or designee
  • Undergraduate Advising 
  • Director or designee, ex officio 
  • Undergraduate Advising Ceneter (UAC)
  • Voting member
 hklee@sfsu.edu

Ezekial Cerezo

  • Undergraduate Advising
  • 2022-2025
  • Advisor
  • Voting member
  • 3- year term
 ecerezo@sfsu.edu

Michelle Kalus

  • Ex-Officio, or designee
  • Director of Developmental Studies
  • Voting member
 mkalus@sfsu.edu

VACANT

  • Ex-Officio, or designee
  • 1st -Year Peer Mentor
  • Student Affairs and Enrollment Mgmt
  • Voting member
  

VACANT

  • AS
  • 1st year student representative
  • 1 year term
  • Voting member
  
Vacant
  • Academic Affairs
  • 1st -Year Peer Mentor
  • Voting member
  

Danny Gabriner

  • Designee/Representative
  • Metro
  • Metro Academies representative
  • Voting member
 dgabriner@sfsu.edu

Xochitl Sanchez

  • Designee/Representative
  • EOP
  • Equal Opportunity Program rep.
  • Voting member
 xvsz@sfsu.edu

Vacant

  • Designee/Representative
  • Res Life
  • Residential Life Representative
  • Voting member
  

Taylor Ann Davies

  • Designee/Representative
  • Health & Wellness
  • Health Promotion & Wellness Rep.
  • Voting member
 tdavies1@sfsu.edu

Melanie Smith

  • LIB
  • 2022-2025
  • Academic Senate appointment
  • Faculty member
  • Quantitative Reasoning
  • Voting member
  • 3 year term
 smithms@sfsu.edu

Aditi Grossman

  • Faculty
  • 2022-2025
  • Academic Senate appointment
  • Faculty member
  • Written English Communication
  • Voting member
  • 3 year term
 aditigrossman@sfsu.edu

Amy Kilgard

  • Faculty
  • 2022-2025
  • Academic Senate appointment
  • Faculty member
  • Oral Communications
  • Voting member
  • 3 year term
 akilgard@sfsu.edu

Jennifer Trainor

  • Faculty
  • 2022-2025
  • Academic Senate appointment
  • Faculty member
  • Critical Thinking
  • Voting member
  • 3 year term
 jtrainor@sfsu.edu

Michael Sudduth

  • Faculty
  • 2022-2025
  • Academic Senate appointment
  • Faculty member
  • Critical Thinking
  • Voting member
  • 3 year term
 msudduth@sfsu.edu

WHAT does F.Y.E.C. do?

The First Year Experience Committee is charged with "...mak[ing] recommendations to the Academic Senate for the first-year seminar and other first year experience that helps first year students...[and] evaluate implemented first year experience activities and report findings to the Academic Senate"  Want to know more?

Take a look at Senate Policy #S20-279, First-Year Experience Committee

 

WHEN does F.Y.E.C. meet?

Please contact the Senate Office at senate@sfsu.edu for more information.

 

HOW can I get involved in F.Y.E.C.?

As a SFSU community member, your contribution to the shared governance of our university is always appreciated.  If you are interested in serving on the First Year Experience Committee, please contact the Senate Office at senate@sfsu.edu.