Bio
Joseph W. Camp, Jr., Secretary of Faculties, has been
a faculty member and administrator in the Purdue University
system for 18 years. He was appointed to his current
position by Purdue President Martin Jischke in the summer
of 2003. He is secretary, parliamentarian, and advisor
for the University Senate; a member of and secretary
for the Steering, Advisory, Document and Records Committees;
executive secretary for the Nomination Committee; and
is chairperson of and secretary for the Intercampus
Faculty Council.
A professor of Veterinary Pathobiology, Dr. Camp earned
his Ph.D. in biology from Wake Forest University in
1980. He joined the faculty at Purdue University North
Central (PUNC) in 1985 as an assistant professor of
Biological Sciences. He was promoted to associate professor
in 1990 and full professor in 1999. He served as director
of the PUNC Biology Field Station from 2000-2002 and
as acting chair of the Biology/Chemistry Department
from 2002-2003. During his time at PUNC he taught a
variety of courses in the Biology curriculum, from the
undergraduate through the graduate level. In addition
to his role as Secretary of Faculties at Purdue’s
West Lafayette campus, Dr. Camp currently teaches Parasitology
to second-year veterinary students.
His research interests focus on the interactions between
helminths and their intermediate and definitive hosts.
Dr. Camp is a member of AAAS, the American Society of
Parasitologists, the Annual Midwest Conference of Parasitologists,
the Helminthological Society of Washington, the Indiana
Academy of Science, the American Fisheries Society,
and Sigma Xi.
The duties of the secretary as specified in the code and
in actions of the University Senate, including the senate's
bylaws, are the following:
- Secretary of the senate is charged with the responsibility
to prepare and distribute minutes of each meeting
- Member and secretary of the Steering Committee
(Receives all committee documents and reports and
proposed agenda for consideration by the committee)
- Member and secretary of the Advisory Committee
- Secretary of the Documents and Records Committee; prepares
the annual updates of the Academic Procedure Manual for
consideration by the Committee
- Member and secretary of the Intercampus Faculty Council
- Receives and maintains archives of the minutes of University
Senate standing committees, and of faculty committees
In addition, he has been appointed and serves as:
- The Executive Secretary of the Nominating Committee
- Parliamentarian of the University Senate
- Chairperson of the Intercampus Faculty Council
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