Appointment & Tellers
Appointments to Academic Senate Standing Committees
Appointment requests for all Academic Senate Standing Committees are processed on
an annual basis. Applicants will receive confirmation regarding their appointment
from the Academic Senate Office prior to the start of the academic year.
Late appointment requests may be accepted at the discretion of the committee and are
typically reviewed during the Fall semester.
Appointment/Tellers/Election Committee Structure
This committee meets approximately seven times per academic year at times agreed upon
by committee members. The first meeting typically takes place in late May or early
June and may last up to two hours.
Email communication occurs between meetings, with limited activity during the summer
months.
All committee members are expected to attend Academic Senate meetings. Membership
in the Academic Senate is not required to serve on the Appointment/Tellers/Election
Committee.
Duties
- To solicit members for Appointed Standing Committees of the Academic Senate.
- To evaluate credentials, to make appointments to committees and then to make procedural
recommendations to the Academic Senate. - To present its faculty appointments to the Executive Committee of the Senate by July
1 of
that year. The Committee shall also appoint members to fill vacancies created by
resignation, leave of absence, sabbatical leave, etc., as required, by the next regularly
scheduled meetings of the respective committees. - To distribute to the electorate official notification of the election with deadline
dates and the
various election procedures outlined in the Bylaws. - To prepare, distribute, collect and verify all nominating petitions.
- To collect statements from the candidates which are to appear in a special notice
in
accordance with the Bylaws. - To prepare all ballots and election-related materials in the proper time sequence
called for in
the Bylaws. - To collect, verify and count all ballots in accordance with the time sequence called
for in the
Bylaws. - To transmit official results to the Chair of the Academic Senate and the President
of the
College in accordance with the time sequence called for in the Bylaws. - To maintain all records of an election for thirty (30) days after the official announcement
of
the election results. After this time, the records shall be destroyed. - To perform all other election-related duties as required by the Chair of the Academic Senate.
- Collegewide elections other than those specified in the Collective Bargaining Agreement
or
Bylaws of the Academic Senate, may become the responsibility of the Committee at the
discretion of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate. - If there has not been a sufficient number of petitions submitted for available positions
on
collegewide elected committees, the Committee may add nominees so that the number of
candidates equals the number of open positions. This will not preclude any faculty
memberfrom a write-in candidacy.
Membership
Standing Representation:
Chair of the Academic Senate or designee from the Executive Committee
Student Government Academic Senate Chair
Other Representation:
No fewer than five (5) but no more than nine (9) faculty members and/or administrators, all of whom shall be elected by the Academic Senate.
Student Academic Senators are also eligible for election to this Committee.
One half of the membership shall be elected in even years, the other half in odd years, with no more than one (1) member from any academic department serving concurrently.
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