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At its meeting of March 22, 2004, the Academic Senate passed the following Policy Recommendation presented by Sally Veregge for the Organization and Government Committee.

POLICY RECOMMENDATION:                                                                                                                  SENATE BY-LAW AMENDMENT                                                                                           APPORTIONMENT OF SENATE SEATS

WHEREAS, The ratio of faculty members to non-faculty member senators must be adjusted when non-faculty are added to the Senate such that two-thirds of senators are faculty members, and

WHEREAS, In order to adjust this ration when faculty or non-faculty members are added, the by-laws must be amended, and

WHEREAS, It would be desirable to amend the by-laws so the ratio of faculty to non-faculty members would be self-adjusting, therefore be it resolved that the Senate:

Amend by-law 1.4 to read as follows:                                                                                                                                              

a) The number of senators holding office under sections 3, 4 and 5 of Art. II of the Senate Constitution must be twice the number of senators not holding office under these sections. The number of faculty representatives to be apportioned among the Colleges and the General Unit is the number of senators holding office under these sections minus the number of senators holding office under sections 4 and 5, and also minus one more as provided in By-Law 1.1 b). The resulting difference is the factor to be used in part b) to apportion faculty representatives among the several Colleges and the General Unit.

b) Before each spring election, using the FTE/F of the preceding fall semester, the Election Committee shall determine the number of representatives allotted to each representative unit (as defined in By-Law 1.1). That number shall be determined by dividing the total FTE teaching faculty of the college units plus the FTE faculty and staff in the General Unit by the factor as determined in a) and then dividing this quotient into the FTE faculty of each of the college units and the FTE faculty and staff in the General Unit. If the allotment of any representative unit is thus determined to be less than one, it shall be increased to one. If the total number of faculty representatives thus determined exceeds the factor as determined in a), the factor as determined in a) shall be increased until the total number of representatives allotted is equal to the factor as determined in a) or less. If the total number allotted is less than the factor as determined in a), one additional representative shall be allotted in turn to each of the units in order of greatest fractional representation until the total number of representatives equals the factor as determined in a).

Approved:                     February 16, 2004

Present:                        Dresser, Desalvo, Quintanar, Miura, Baba, Liu, Veregge

Absent:                         Choo Park

Vote:                            7-0-0

Financial Impact:           None

ACTION BY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: Approved by Interim President Joseph Crowley, April 2, 2004