Article II: Membership
Section 1. Academic units shall
hold meetings no later than six weeks prior to the termination of the springsemester each year to elect members to the Faculty
Senate for the following academic year. The election shall be conducted by the
academic unit’s senator. The senator of the academic unit shall notify the
Chair of the Senate Nominations and Elections Committee of the results of the
election. In cases where an academic unit is split or a new academic unit is
created between the time of the spring election and the opening of the fall
semester, those academic units shall elect senators at the first meeting of the
academic unit in the fall.
Section 2. Each academic unit
that has more than one full-time teaching and research faculty member, as defined
in the Faculty Handbook shall elect one member of the Senate and an
alternate. The election of a senate alternate shall be conducted by the
academic unit’s senator who shall notify the Chair of the Senate
Nomination and Elections Committee of the
results of the election. Any alternate
shall be able to represent the academic unit with full voting rights when the
regular senator is unable to attend. Alternate senators shall not represent
regular senators on senate committees. For
purposes of representation, the professional staff of the library shall be
regarded as an academic unit.