The Employee Benefits Committee is charged with advising the administration on matters relating to all faculty and staff benefits. To convene regularly, at the call of the Chair or upon the request of any three members to the chair. To conduct substantive discussions about faculty and staff benefits and any proposed changes thereto. To seek, consider, and represent the opinions and interests of faculty and staff in the Committee's deliberations and in its advice to the administration. To inform faculty and staff, through their respective representatives on the Committee, of all conditions or proposals that may affect faculty and staff benefits. As circumstances require, but no less often than once per academic year, the Director fo Human Resources, as an ex-officio member of the Committee, will report on the status of faculty and staff benefits in meetings of the Joint Faculties and of the staff. 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: 
  • Andy Thompson—Associate Professor of Theological Ethics
  • Arturo Márquez-Gómez—Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Brian Evans—Assistant Vice President of Human Resources
  • Chris Champion—Director of HR Innovation (chair)
  • Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah—Associate Professor of International and Global Studies
  • Erin Fizer—Senior Press Operator
  • Evelyn Patton—Medical Office Senior Patient Coordinator
  • Jim Peterman—Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Office of Civic Engagement (retired)
  • Myles Elledge—Director of the Babson Center
  • Sarah Rimkus—Assistant Professor of Music
  • Tabatha Whitsett—Executive Assistant to the Provost
  • Taja Davidson—Director of Community Standards
  • Tracy McBee—Senior Publications Coordinator

Benefits Committee Membership Manual

The committee manual is designed to give members, prospective members, and the campus community a clear sense of what the committee does, how it works, and how members can contribute meaningfully.