Faculty Senate standing committees are listed in the Faculty Senate Charter and Bylaws and are considered a permanent part of the Senate. Standing committee members generally change when new officers are elected, but the committee's purpose, function, and duties do not change.

• Academic and Institutional Support (Gholam Khaleghi, chair)
• Assessment (Jeff Judd, chair)
• Budget and Planning (Stan May, chair)
• Curriculum Committee (Petersen Gross, chair)
• Distance Education ( Warren Kawano, chair)
• Elections (William Castillo and Junie Hayashi, co-chairs)
• Faculty (Danny Wyatt and Genai Keliikuli, co-chairs)
• General Education (Suzette Scotti and Weirong Cai, co-chairs))
• Legislative Relations (Betty Ickes, chair)
• Student (Jayne Bopp and Lexer Chou, co-chairs)

Faculty Senate ad hoc committees are created to perform a specific task and are created and are dissolved when the task is completed and the final report is provided. The Faculty Senate does not create an ad hoc committee to complete tasks within the designated function of a standing committee.

• Alternative Class Schedule (Jeremiah Boydstun & Lexer Chou, co-chairs) 
• Course Evaluation System (CES) (Wayde Oshiro and Catherine Walker, co-chairs)