Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:28:20 -0400
To: official@list.gcsu.edu
From: Craig Turner <craig.turner@gcsu.edu>
Subject: Tiebreaker Process: At-Large Faculty Election Provost and VPAA Search Committee
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To:         University Faculty
From:     Craig Turner, Chair of the 2007-2008 Executive Committee
Date:      Thursday, April 10, 2008
Subject:  TieBreaker Process for Election of At-Large Faculty for the Provost and VPAA Search Committee

The Search Committee for the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs will include two faculty members
elected at-large by faculty, and the Executive Committee of the University Senate has been asked to implement
this election. 

The call for nominations was extended by email (via the listserv official@list.gcsu.edu) on Sunday April 6, 2008 and
nominations closed at 5:00 p.m.on Tuesday April 8, 2008. 

Ballots were sent out to Corps of Instruction Faculty by email indicating that ballots must be submitted by 4:00 p.m.
Friday April 11, 2008.  This email ballot had from line Craig Turner, was sent approximately 2:17 p.m. on Wed Apr 9
and had subject line "At-Large Election for Provost and VPAA Search Committee".   If you are a member of the
Corps of Instruction and did not receive a ballot, please let me know so that I can arrange for you to receive
one.

At the joint meeting of the Executive Committee and Standing Committee Chairs on April 10, 2008, the following
process was endorsed by those present should a tie in the vote result in three or more candidates elected to fill
the two at-large faculty positions on the committee.  It is important that this tiebreaker process is distributed prior
to the results of the election being available.

What if there is a TIE in the vote for at-large faculty positions to serve on the Provost and Vice President
of Academic Affairs Search Committee?

There are only two possibilities for ties in the election of the two at-large faculty positions on the Provost and Vice
President of Academic Affairs search committee that would lead to a question of who should fill these positions.

1. A tie for the highest number of votes received among three or more candidates
        Should this occur, the names of all candidates involved in the tie shall be forwarded to the University President,
        who shall select two of these nominees to fill the two at-large faculty positions on the committee.

2. Exactly one candidate receives the highest number of votes and a tie for the second highest number of
    votes received among two or more candidates
        Should this occur, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes will be named as an at large faculty member
        to the committee, and the names of all candidates involved in the tie for the second highest number of votes will be
        forwarded to the University President, who shall select one of these nominees to fill the remaining at-large faculty
        position on the committee.