California State University, Stanislaus (Stan State) welcomes home their former and now current Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs, Dr. Ted Wendt who will be temporarily managing the position due to the resignation of former Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs, Dennis Shimek, during the Spring semester of 2016.
Before he arrived at Stan State, Wendt was a faculty member in the Theater Department at California State University, Chico in which he eventually became the Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities.
Wendt held the position of Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs at Stan State back in 2003 through 2010. 
Since his farewell to Stan State, Wendt served as Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs at California State University, Fresno and as Special Consultant for numerous CSU campuses.
Because of all of his experience and short time to properly search and interview potential candidates for the position, Stan State President Dr. Ellen Junn assigned Dr. Ted Wendt to the responsibility of Interim Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs for the academic semester of Fall 2016.
Wendt shared that his number one job while in office is to find the person that is going to take this job permanently.
He hopes to operate things efficiently so that the future Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs can have an easy transition to the position.
“I’m here to keep the place running for, we hope, not much longer than the fall semester,” Wendt said. “It’s our hope, everybody’s hope, that we will be able to identify the permanent Associate Vice President for Faculty who would start then, we would hope, by next semester.”
Some responsibilities that Wendt holds as Interim Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs include retention, facilitating the periodic evaluation of faculty, tenure, promotion process for tenure-track faculty and facilitating leaves and retirement programs for faculty.
When Wendt is not assisting Stan State’s faculty, he enjoys traveling and cooking.
This summer Wendt and his wife traveled to France for two weeks. He hopes to continue traveling all around Europe specially Greece, Italy, and Spain.
Although Wendt’s devotion is to help faculty, his heart has and always will belong to his love for theater.  He shared that his favorite playwright is Shakespeare.
“I went into theater to begin with long ago because I like to read, I like drama and I like plays, but I went into theater rather than English, although I took many English classes and loved literature, because I like the idea of taking a play which is written manuscript and seeing it come to life,” Wendt said. “I enjoyed the process of being able to go from the page to the stage as they say.”
Even though Wendt was away from Stan State for almost six years he shared what he missed the most about Stan State was the people.
“If they miss me I think it’s reciprocated that I missed the people that I worked with. I had a great staff and faculty affairs. The professional staffs are great to work with,” Wendt said. “It makes it easier to work when you know you are going to be surrounded by people as dedicated who just want to do the best that they can be and that’s been part of it and of course working with the faculty here.”