From: "Mike Digby" <mike.digby@gcsu.edu>
To: <ecus@gcsu.edu>
Cc: "'Craig Turner'" <craig.turner@gcsu.edu>
Subject: Senate election procedures--SoLAS
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:55:21 -0500
Attached is the set of procedures used by the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences in the election of its contingent of University Senators.
Please let me know if any
additional information is needed.
Michael F. Digby
Interim Dean
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
GCSU
Milledgeville, GA 31061
The following policy was adopted by the faculty of the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences in the spring of 2006. The Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council, composed of an elected representative from each department and charged with “making specific recommendations about policies and procedures to the dean on behalf of the faculty” (SoLAS By-Laws), affirmed the continuation of this policy at its meeting on October 17, 2007.
The School of Liberal Arts & Sciences apportions Senate seats to departments based on the counts of department faculty from the Corps of Instruction list used for University Senate apportionment. Every department in the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences will be entitled to at least one University Senate seat, assuming the school's total number of seats is at least equal to number of departments. Additional seats will be apportioned among the departments in the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences in accordance with the allocation procedure used by the University Senate.
Using this process, the following departmental allocations have been made for the relevant time period:
Departments with senators whose terms are expiring were informed of that fact and of the need to elect senators by February 1, 2008, using a secret ballot for elections after open nominations. The following departments will be electing new senators, all for two year terms unless otherwise noted: