Board approves large bundle of faculty, staff appointments, promotions and reappointments

At its Feb. 5 meeting the Montclair State University Board of Trustees approved a bundled set of personnel actions moved by Trustee Sheila Rostiac. The motion listed counts and named multiple appointments and reappointments, including: 1 faculty tenure-track appointment; 1 non-tenure appointment; 6 managerial appointments; 8 professional staff appointments; 15 faculty promotions; 18 faculty tenure reappointments; 48 faculty reappointments; 26 teaching faculty reappointments; and 216 professional staff reappointments. The public minutes record many individual names and effective dates.

Notable individual entries in the minutes include Joan Valas (appointed professor, School of Nursing, effective Jan. 16, 2026) and managerial appointments such as Amber Alaeddin, Emergency Medical Services Manager in University Police, effective Jan. 12, 2026. The minutes also list a long sequence of teaching- and professional-staff reappointments to take effect July 1, 2026, including roles across Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Student Development.

The minutes show that the motion on professional staff annual reappointments was seconded and approved unanimously. The public minutes do not include individual vote tallies for every appointment motion; when votes are recorded they are noted as approved or approved unanimously. Effective dates and funding notes (for some positions) are included in the record; the minutes do not provide hiring budgets or salary information in the public text.