Elections
ELIGIBILITY FOR SENATE SEATThose faculty and professional librarians (henceforth “librarians”) eligible for election to a Senator
shall be:
- All full-time faculty (including department chairs and school directors with a 50% or less
administrative appointment) with a minimum of three years of experience as a member of the
faculty at the institution.
- Full-time librarians (with a 50% or less administrative appointment) with a minimum of three
years of experience as a librarian at the institution.
COMPOSITION
The Faculty Senate shall have the following composition:
- Faculty Senate Executive Committee: Members of the Executive Committee shall be elected
from the current Senators. The Executive Committee shall be made up of the President of the
Senate, President-Elect of the Senate, Immediate Past President of the Senate, Secretary of the
Senate, Parliamentarian and additional members from each of the Colleges/Units at the same
level (including the University College and the School of Medicine) and the Library not already
represented on the Executive Committee.
- Academic Department or School Representation: Each academic department and
school/comparable unit (including the School of Medicine) offering undergraduate or graduate
academic degrees (hereafter “department”) shall have at least one representative in the Faculty
Senate. If a department has 25-49 full-time faculty (with at least 50% appointment in said unit)
in the department, they shall have two representatives in the Faculty Senate. If a department
has 50 or more full-time faculty (with at least 50% appointment) in the department (or school),
they shall have three representatives in the Faculty Senate. The department representatives will
be elected by a vote of the department faculty. Geographic diversity of representatives from all
campuses is encouraged.
- Library Representation: Librarians shall have one elected representative.
- University College Representation: The University College shall have one elected representative.
Election and terms of office shall be as follows:
- All elections for Senator positions will be administered by the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee.
- Senators are elected to three-year renewable terms of office, not to exceed two consecutive
terms. If a Senator is elected to fill an unexpired term in a special election with two years or less
remaining in the unexpired term, said service will not count towards the term limit for the
Senator.
- Terms will be staggered so that at every election approximately one-third of the elected
positions will be open for election.