K. Nomination and Election of Faculty Representatives
Faculty serving as representatives of Education to various campus-wide
or system-wide organizations (e.g., Faculty Senate, Teacher Education Council,
Education Council) are responsible for reporting summaries of the issues
raised and action taken therein.
Faculty representatives are elected by a majority vote of the faculty during
a regularly scheduled faculty meeting.
Nominations for elected positions are presented to the faculty by the Faculty
Affairs Committee. Responsibilities of that committee include: polling
the faculty for volunteers, constructing slates of candidates yielding
balanced representation of the various constituencies in Education, and
emphasizing procedures consistent with generally accepted principles of
democratic representation.
Nominations are, in addition, always encouraged and accepted from the floor
during a faculty meeting.
If a representative becomes inactive, the Faculty Affairs Committee declares
the position vacant and conducts elections to complete the term of office.
A representative becomes inactive when he/she is either absent from four
meetings of the organization in any one academic year, or fails to report
to the faculty in four successive regularly scheduled faculty meetings.
Seats vacated prior to the end of the respective term are immediately filled
by a new election.