Faculty Association
 
January 19 , 2006
MINUTES OF MEETING
NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
Thursday, January 19, 2006
1:00 p.m. @ Library conference room
Call To Order:

Cynthia Jordan called the meeting to order at 1:10 p.m.


Members Present:

Sherif Elfayoumy, Cynthia Jordan, Robb Frankel, Lee Richardson, Mike Smith


Members Absent:

Jan Meires, Claudia Scaff, Louis Woods


Others Attendance:
None


I.
Approval of Minutes:

The minutes from the December 2005 meeting were approved as distributed via email.


II.
Introductory Remarks/Old Business :

None


III.
New Business/Agenda Items/Information Reports :

The election for Faculty Association officers will take place March 2. Currently there are nominees for President and Vice President, but not for Secretary. Cynthia asked committee members to canvass faculty for nominees for Faculty Association Secretary and route all names to her.

Nominations will also be taken from the floor during the Faculty Association meeting February 2.

The election will take place at the Faculty Association meeting March 2. Cynthia will prepare the ballots and bring the ballot boxes to the meeting. Lee will prepare the faculty signature list. The following schedule was arranged for monitoring the ballot boxes:

Thursday, March 2   Friday, March 3
1:15-3:00 Robb   9:00-11:00 Mike
3:00-4:00 Cynthia   11:00-1:00 Lee

The committee will meet Friday, March 3 at 1:30 to count ballots. Cynthia will inform everyone when a location has been arranged; either the Library conference room or the Faculty Association Meeting Room.

The election for University and Standing Committees will take place April 6. Nominations will be taken from the floor during the Faculty Association meeting March 2. Cynthia will need help writing names of nominees. The same election procedures decided on for the officer election will be followed for this election. The following schedule was arranged for monitoring the ballot boxes:

Thursday, April 6   Friday, April 7
1:15-3:00 Robb   9:00-11:00 Mike
3:00-4:00 Cynthia   11:00-1:00 Lee

The committee will meet Friday, April 7 at 1:30 to count ballots; location to be determined.

Cynthia informed the committee that it wasn’t too early to start canvassing for University and Standing Committee vacancies. She pointed out that members of the Sabbatical and Promotion and Tenure Committees must be tenured. Committee vacancies are located on the Faculty Association web page.


IV.
Other Discussions and Announcements:

It was agreed that Thursdays at 12:00 was a better meeting time.

 

V.

Adjournment & Next Meeting:

The meeting was adjourned at 1:35. The next meeting will be Thursday, February 9 at 12:00 in either the Library conference room or the Faculty Association Meeting Room.

Submitted by Lee Richardson, January 20, 2006

 

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