S94-1, S95-8 SELECTION OF FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES FOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE TRUSTEES COMMITTEE FOR THE SELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT

Legislative History:

Document dated April 8,1994.

At its meeting of April 4, 1994, the Academic Senate approved the following Policy Recommendation presented by Cecilia Mullen for the Organization and Government Committee.

Amended by S 95-8.

ACTION BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT:

S94-1 "Approved and signed as University Policy" J. Handel Evans, April 8,1994.

S95-8 "Accepted as University Policy" Signed: Robert L. Caret, May 18, 1995.

SELECTION OF FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES FOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE TRUSTEES COMMITTEE FOR THE SELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT

S 94-1 AS AMENDED BY S95-8

The three faculty representatives on the Advisory Committee to the Trustees Committee for the Selection of the President shall be selected as follows:

1. a. The faculty electorate in each of the Academic Senate representative units (as defined in By-Law 1.1.a) shall choose one nominee. Any member of the faculty electorate qualified to vote in that unit may become a candidate for unit nominee by timely filing of a nominating petition signed by at least ten others qualified to vote in that unit; the candidate shall also sign a statement on the petition that he/she is willing to serve on the committee if selected. Votes of part-time faculty shall be weighted as provided in Article 11, section 3.c, of the Senate Constitution. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes in each unit (whether or not a majority) shall be the unit nominee.

b. If only one candidate files a nominating petition in a unit, that person shall be the nominee, without an election. if no candidate is nominated in a unit, there shall be no unit nominee. If there is a unit election and the result is a tie vote, the candidates who have tied shall all be unit nominees.

2. The unit nominees shall be invited to appear before the Academic Senate and make brief statements of their respective views regarding presidential selection.

3. The faculty members of the Senate (those holding office under sections 3, 4, and 5 of Article II of the Senate Constitution) shall then proceed to choose the three faculty representatives from the unit nominees by secret ballot in accordance with the following procedure:

a. All of the unit nominees shall be listed on the ballot; faculty Senators shall vote for no more than three.

b. If three and only three of the unit nominees have a majority of the votes cast, they are elected.

c. If more than three have a majority, the three with the highest number of votes, respectively, are elected.

d. If only one or two have a majority, she/he or they are elected and the faculty Senators shall vote again on the remaining candidates.

e. If no candidate has a majority on the first or a subsequent ballot, the unit nominee with the fewest votes shall be dropped and another vote taken on the remaining candidates.

f. If, on any ballot, two or more candidates, each with sufficient votes to be elected, are tied and both or all cannot be elected, the faculty Senators shall take a separate vote to break that tie.

4. If, after the election, a vacancy occurs in the faculty representation, the faculty Senators shall elect one of the remaining available unit nominees to fill it. If none of the unit nominees is available, the faculty Senators shall elect a Senator who is a faculty representative to fill it. If the faculty Senators, by reason of vacation or otherwise cannot be convened, the elected members of the Executive Committee shall act for them.

5. Dates and timelines for the selection of unit nominees by the faculty electorate and for selection of Advisory Committee faculty representatives by the Senate shall be set by the elected members of the Executive Committee. Academic Senate nomination and election procedures shall be followed where not inconsistent with this policy.