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 former 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
Nominating Committee; and is chairperson of and secretary for the Intercampus Faculty Council.
A professor of Veterinary Parasitology, 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 and first-year
veterinary technology students.
His research interests focus on the interactions between helminths and their intermediate and definitive hosts.
In addition, he has started to examine the proteome of the parasite Sarcocystis neurona that causes equine
protozoal myeloencephalitis in horses. Dr. Camp is a member of AAAS, the American Association of Veterinary
Parasitologists, 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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