UNIVERSITY GOVERNING ELIGIBLE MEMBERS VOTING OR OTHER ACADEMIC FACULTY BODY SIMILAR AND NUMBERS LIMITATIONS CATEGORIES & TITLES TO U of U ACADEMIC SENATE

University of Faculty Senate 66 total members Emeritus status has voting “Members of the General Faculty are Arizona privileges in the first 5 eligible to vote in matters of faculty (The Faculty Senate is 20 At-Large members1 years of his/her status, and governance and to hold offices and the legislative body that - These are elected by the can be extended for an serve on committees” represents the General General Faculty additional 5 years after Faculty. No that. For purposes of University government, recommendation 29 college the General Faculty . . . is composed of: concerning University - A minimum of one No candidate for a degree policy is final until the member is elected by each at the University shall be a Faculty members General Faculty has had College Faculty member of the General - (who hold half-time or more an opportunity to - General Faculty members Faculty. tenured or tenure-eligible challenge Faculty Senate not affiliated with any appointments) action.) college conduct an Undergraduate Council election as if they (“UC”): Academic Professionals http://facultygovernance. constitute a common - 1 to 2 student reps from - (hold half-time or more continuing arizona.edu/sites/default/ college the Associated Students or continuing eligible files/Faculty_Governanc - The remaining are elected of the Univ. of Ariz. appointments) e_Handbook.pdf in proportion to the (ASUA) are appointed number in each College to the UC. The chair of Lecturers Faculty the UC is appointed by - (hold half-time or more multi-year the Chair of the appointments) 10 ex officio2 voting Faculty. members: Clinical Professors, research - The President of the Univ. Graduate Council (“GC”): professors, and professors of practice - The Provost - 3 student reps are - (hold half-time or more multi-year

1 “At-Large” is a designation for representative members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of a unit, here, each college. 2 Ex officio means, by virtue of an office or position. As in, for example, “the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board.” - Chair of the Faculty selected by the appointments) - Vice Chair of the Faculty Graduate and - Secretary of the Faculty Professional Student Emeritus Status - One member representing Council. The chair is the Vice Presidents appointed by the Chair - One member representing of the Faculty. the Deans - Chair of the Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee - Chair of the Undergraduate Council (can potentially be a student) - Chair of the Graduate Council (can potentially be a student)

7 students: - Four selected by ASUA - Three selected by Graduate and Professional Student Council

Arizona State The University Senate Total membership number Ex officio nonvoting Tenured Appointment and Tenure- University unknown members of the Senate eligible Appointment: **Academic Assembly include: - Professor, Associate Professor, The University Senate is Ex officio voting members - the president of the Assistant Professor and selected from the of the Senate include: university; - Regents’ Professor Academic Assembly. - The members of the - executive VP and - President’s Professor The following are University Academic provost; members of the Council (“UAC”) - executive VP and chief Emeritus: Academic Assembly: - The secretary of the financial office of the - Professor Emeriti (given to faculty 1. All faculty in a tenure- Academic Assembly university; members who have served the eligible or tenured - The “parliamentarian” of - dean of the Graduate “institution for a substantial length position the University senate. college; of time the title of ‘emeritus.’”); 2. All academic The method of selecting - university librarian; professionals with full- senators from any “degree- - the ombudsperson of the Fixed-term Appointment Faculty time multi-year, granting unit” is determined academic assembly; Members: probationary, or by the assembly members of - Chair of the ASU staff - Research Professor, Research continuing that unit. council; Association Professor, Research appointment positions - Degree-granting units - A representative of Assistant Professor, Research 3. The president of the with fewer than 40 undergraduate student Scholar university and the Academic Assembly government and the - Clinical Professor, Clinical executive VP, and members select 1 senator. president of the graduate Associate Professor, Clinical provost - Degree-granting units and professional Assistant Professor 4. All full-time faculty with 40 or more Academic students association. - Professor of Practice, Associate with fixed Assembly members select Professor of Practice, Assistant appointments (i.e. 1 additional senator. The following positions Professor of Practice instructors, lecturers, - Degree-granting units are not members of the - Principal Lecturer, Senior senior lecturers, with 100 or more Academic Assembly: Lecturer, Lecturer principal lecturers, Academic Assembly - Faculty Research clinical faculty, members “may” select a Associates Annual Fixed-term Appointments: research faculty, and third senator. - Visiting Faculty - Visiting Professor, Visiting professors of practice) - Faculty Associates Associate Professor, Visiting 5. Members of the Assistant Professor, Visiting Emeritus College Scholar, Visiting Scientist, Visiting Artist, Visiting Writer http://www.asu.edu/aad/ - Instructor and Instructor, ABD manuals/acd/acd112- 01.html#Academic Semester or Annual, Fixed-term Senate Appointments: - Faculty Research Associates There is a catch-all (appointed on a semester or annual, provision stating that all fixed term appointments, are not “persons who are eligible for promotion, and are not designated as faculty on members of the Academic [their] Notice of Assembly) Faculty” are considered - Faculty Associates (appointed on faculty. semester or annual, fixed term appointments) http://www.asu.edu/aad/ manuals/acd/acd505- Unpaid, Usually Part-time Positions for 02.html Limited Renewable Terms: - Adjunct Faculty

University of Academic Senate *Notice: Instructors and Instructors 14 pages (see California Berkeley’s Bylaws are in Residence of Less than http://www.ucop.edu/acadpersonnel/ap Berkley convoluted. Under Title III two years’ service have no m/apm-112.pdf) *The Regents of the (“Organization of the vote. University of California Academic Senate”), it states **It would be time intensive to attempt state the following: that the “functions of the Members of the faculties to categorize all types of Faculty. “The Academic Senate Academic Senate are of professional schools What’s more, the categorization may not shall consist of the exercised by the following offering courses at the be coherent. President, Vice agencies and their graduate level only shall Presidents, Chancellors, committees.” It then goes on be members also of the **Provisions governing the title, tenure, Vice Chancellors, to list six agencies and Academic Senate, but, in and duration of Faculty are located in Deans, Provosts, committees: the discretion of the the Academic Personnel Manual, Directors of academic 1.The Assembly of the Academic Senate, may be available at programs, the chief Academic Senate excluded from http://www.ucop.edu/acadpersonnel/ap admissions officer on 2.The Academic Council3 participation in activities m/ each campus and in the 3.Standing and Special of the Senate that relate to and Office of the President, Committees of the curricula of other schools http://www.ucop.edu/acadpersonnel/ap

3 The Academic Council consists of the following members: (1) The Chair of the Assembly, who is also the Chair of the Academic Council; (2) The Vice Chair of the Assembly, who is the Vice Chair of the Academic Council; (3) The Chairs of the Divisions; and (4) The Chairs of the following University Standing Committees: Academic Personnel; Affirmative Action and Diversity; Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools; Educational Policy; Faculty Welfare; Graduate Affairs; Planning and Budget; and Research Policy. registrars, the University Assembly and colleges of the m/sec1-pdf.html Librarian on each 4.Divisions of the Academic University. campus of the Senate University, and each 5.Standing and Special Student members shall be person giving instruction Committees of the eligible to serve on all in any curriculum under Divisions standing sub-committees. the control of the 6.Faculties of Divisions Academic Senate whose academic title is [listing All rules discussed here a host of titles]; related to (1) (i.e. “The however, Instructors and Assembly of the Academic Instructors in Residence Senate”). of less than two years’ http://www.universityofcalif service shall not be ornia.edu/senate/manual/blp entitled to vote.” art1.html#blpart1-I http://regents.universityo fcalifornia.edu/bylaws/so The Assembly of the 1051.html Academic Senate has the following Members: The same provision as - The President above goes on to say: - The Chair and Vice Chair “The Academic Senate of the Assembly shall determine its own - All members of the membership under the Academic Council serve above rule, and shall as ex officio of the organize, and choose its Assembly own officers and - 40 divisional committees in such representatives “chosen manner as it may from other than determine.” chancellors, vice chancellors, deans, chief administrative officers of colleges and schools, and members of the University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction.” • The Academic Council annually prorates these 40 among the Divisions in proportion to their membership, but each Division has at least 1 Divisional Representative in the Assembly. • And each Division determines its own method of choosing its representatives.

http://www.universityofcalif ornia.edu/senate/manual/blp art2.html#bl105

University of Faculty Senate The Faculty Senate consists Visiting professors are not Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty: Colorado of all members of the members. - Assistant Professor *Another confusing general faculty with the - Associate Professor body of bylaws. The following titles whose If a UC’s employment is - Professor Colorado Board of appointments are fifty- not characterized as at Regents states that the percent4 or more: least 50% “tenure,” then Non-Tenure Track Faculty: “faculty government - Professor; this employee—no matter - Instructor bodies are the Faculty - associate professor; what their title—is not a - Senior instructor

4 Based on UC’s Bylaws, it appears that a UC employee can be classified as a mix of “tenure” and “non-tenure.” But, in order to be a member of the Senate, the employee must be 50% or more “tenure.” So that if, for example, a UC Professor is classified only 40% tenure, then—although having the title of Professor— this employee will not be a member of the Faculty Senate. It is uncertain what the 50% represents. Senate and its - assistant professor; member of the Senate. - Lecturer committee(s), the - senior instructor; - Scholar in Residence Faculty Council and its - instructor; - Artist in Residence committees, the campus - scholar in residence; faculty senates, the - artist in residence Clinical Teaching Track Faculty (Not campus faculty - Adjoint, attendant, clinical eligible for tenure): assemblies and their and research faculty with - Instructor, Clinical Teaching Track committees and the fifty-percent or more - Etc. (see https://www.cu.edu/ faculties of the colleges appointments in the above regents/Policies/Policy5L.htm) and schools of the ranks are also members. university.” Clinical Faculty (non tenure eligible/ https://www.cu.edu/facul - Designated representative less than 50%): tycouncil/constitution/art from the Retired Faculty - Clinical Instructor icle1.html Association shall be a - Etc. (see link above) member during her/his tenure. Research Faculty Faculty Council (see https://www.cu.edu/ Ex officio members (with Museum Faculty facultycouncil/constituti right to vote): on/article3.html) - President of the university - Vice presidents https://www.cu.edu/regents/Policies/Poli Membership: - The chancellors cy5L.htm - The officers of the - The vice chancellors Faculty Council (chair, - All deans vice chair and - The directors of the secretary); budget, libraries and - The most recently museam retired chair of the - Professors emeriti and Faculty Council; emeritae - 3 representatives from each of the campuses https://www.cu.edu/facultyc of the University; ouncil/constitution/article1.h - The chairs of the tml campus faculty assemblies; - The Chairs of the standing committees of the Faculty Council and of the Faculty Senate - A representative from the Retired Faculty Association University of University Senate Consists of 51-54 voting The University President, Tenure-track appointments: Oregon members representing a total Provost, and the ASUO - Assistant Professor http://senate.uoregon.edu of six constituent groups: President shall be ex - Associate Professor /sites/senate.uoregon.edu - Statutory faculty officio non-voting - Professor /files/Constitution%20of • (37 core members; members of the Senate. %20the%20UODec_15_ defined as the body of Non-tenured track: 2011.pdf professors, University Retired and emeriti faculty - Clinical Faculty (assistant clinical President, tenure- members are not members professor, associate clinical related officers, career of the statutory faculty. professor, clinical professor); non-tenure-track - Instructor series (Instructor, Senior officers, and officers The Senate President and Instructor I, Senior Instructor II); of administration who VP must be selected from - Lecturer series (Lecturer, Senior are tenured) the Statutory Faculty. Lecturer I, Senior Lecturer II); - Librarians (2) - Librarian - Officers of Administration 35 of 37 core Statutory - Professor of Practice (Assistant (3) Faculty senators must Professor of Practice, Associate - Students (5) jointly represent the Professor of Practice, Professor of - Classified Staff (3) College of Arts and Practice); - Career Non-Tenure-Track Sciences and the Research Faculty (1) professional schools and colleges, proportionally. Chair of the Academic Council has a seat. No academic department can be represented by more than two senators.

If the officers of the Senate are not drawn from the 37 Statutory Faculty members, but instead from another source, then the number of senators rises depending on how many non-statutory faculty chairs are appointed.

Oregon State Faculty Senate Elected Senators: All defined as Faculty (see Tenure-Track Appointments: University There are 132 elected the previous column box), - Faculty with professional rank and are All defined as Faculty members. and who are included in 0.5 FTE or more are generally tenure- (see the following Senate apportionment in track appointments column box), and who **Apportionment groups are their apportionment unit, - Some tenure-related positions carry are included in Senate defined as: are eligible to vote in the less than 1.0 FTE tenure commitment apportionment, are - Each college nomination and election of following granting of indefinite tenure, eligible for election to - combined ROTC staff Senators. but must be 0.50 FTE or greater. the Faculty Senate. - off-campus extension http://oregonstate.edu/se faculty Each apportionment group Professorial Ranks: nate/bylaws/ - student affairs gets at least one elected • Deans, VPs, and President - associated faculty member • Assistant Professor, Associate - OSU-Cascades and Professor, and Professor Library The Executive Committee • Fixed-term Faculty Eligible for of the Faculty Senate Professorial Ranks (fixed-term **Faculty: defined as determines (each Fall), the faculty engaged in extension, members of the Unclassified full-time-equivalent (FTE) research, or clinical practice and Academic Staff who: (1) are of faculty in each college with scholarship expectation at a Professional Faculty, or (2) or unit and the total level normally appropriate for a hold one of these academic student credit hours (SCH) professorial rank); ranks: generated by each unit Fixed-Term Appointments: - Instructor during the most recent - Faculty members who do not - Senior Instructor academic year. hold professional ranks; - Faculty Research Apportionment is 75% - Faculty members who hold Assistant according to FTE, and professional rank but are - Senior Faculty Research 25% according to SCH. appointed at less than 0.5 FTE Assistant . - Faculty members who hold - Research Associate professional rank in one of the - Assistant Professor following appointments: - Associate Professor • Assistant, Associate, or Full - Professor Professor (Extension) • Assistant, Associate, or Full Ex officio (voting) Professor (Senior Research), Members: or - President of the • Assistant, Associate, or Full University Professor (Clinical) - Provost and Executive VP - Faculty members performing - Interinstitutional Faculty academic support, student Senators support, or administrative - Immediate past president support functions. - Any Executive Committee - Appointments that are member whose term in the temporary, regardless of rank. Senate has expired. See more at http://oregonstate.edu /admin/hr/sites/default/files/jobs/acadap pt.pdf

Stanford Senate of the Academic Senate of the Academic Professors Emeriti are The Professoriate consists of the University Council Council: Senior Members of the following categories of appointments: (composed of fifty five Academic Council with Tenure Line Faculty: (the powers of the members of the Academic privileges of the floor and - Assistant Professor Academic Council are Council apportioned as of service on committees - Associate Professor exercise through the follows): but not with the right to - Professor action of the Academic - Graduate School of vote or hold office. Council itself and the business (3) Non-Tenure Line Faculty: Senate) - Earth Sciences (2) The Senate allows 15 ex - Assistant Professor (Research) - Education (2) officio members without - Associate Professor - Engineering (11) the right to vote. (Performance, Teaching, The Academic Council - Humanities & Sci (24) Research) Professoriate consists of: - Law (2) The Senate allows three - Professor (Applied Research, Tenure Life faculty: - Medicine (9) standing guests from the Clinical, Performance, - Assistant Professor - SLAC (1) Associated Students of Teaching, Research) - Associate Professor - Special Administrative Stanford University. - Professor Group (1) Students have a right to Medical Center Line Faculty: speak but no right to vote. - Assistant Professor (MCL) Non-Tenure Life - Associate Professor (MCL) Faculty: - Professor (MCL) - Assistant Professor Other faculty designations: - Associate Professor - Assistant Professor (Subject to (Applied research, Ph.D.) Clinical - Senior Fellow at designated Performance, policy centers and institutes Teaching, Research) - Center Fellows at designated - Professor (Research, policy centers and institutes Clinical, Performance, Teaching, Research) - Senior Fellow at designated policy centers and institutes.

University of Identical to Berkeley. California L.A. Operates on the ------University of California system.

University of Academic Senate All members of the Faculty Only tenured and tenure- *Not designated as faculty include: California, (The representative body Assembly are eligible to eligible faculty members academic staff such as graduate Southern of the faculty at large for participate in the Academic may vote on assistants, distinguished practitioners, or California university-wide issues) Senate and faculty recommendations other affiliated academic staff. committees. pertaining to University policies and procedures Tenured, Tenure-Track and Continuing *Faculty Assembly The total size of the Senate concerning tenure and the Appointment Faculty: (consists of all full-time will be at least 40 and not tenure system. - Instructor faculty members, more than 80 members. - Assistant Professor including tenured and The non-voting members - Associate Professor tenure-track faculty, Voting Members of the of the Academic Senate - Professor non-tenure-track faculty, Academic Senate include: are: - Librarians and librarians, and those (a) the elected president or (a) the chairs selected by who have retired from one other elected member of the Executive Board of Clinical Scholar and Similar titles these positions.) the faculty council in each faculty standing http://www.usc.edu/acad school, the College, and committees authorized by Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: eme/acsen/AboutUs/con each Division in the College the Academic Senate, and - Includes: Lecturers; Researchers; stitution.htm (b) additional delegates from (b) representatives of Practitioners; Clinicians; the school faculty councils other University Mathematics. School Faculty Council (see below for explanation*) Organizations. (each school has an (c) the executive officers of Librarians elected faculty council. the faculty and Members at The faculty council in Large of the Executive Part-Time Faculty (Non-Tenure-Track): each school is Board. - Lecturer; adjunct professor; clinical established by the professor. faculty of that school). *The faculty of each school, by referendum, decides how Voluntary Faculty the “additional delegates” from that school will be Affiliated Academic Staff selected for the Academic Senate. Apportionment is http://policies.usc.edu/p4acad_stud/facul decided based on size of the tyhandbook.pdf faculty in each school. University of Faculty Senate Voting Members of the The following are not The University faculty consists of: Washington Faculty Senate: “voting members of the - President http://www.washington.e - President of the faculty,” and therefore - Vice presidents du/admin/rules/policies/ University cannot be elected to the - professors FCG/FCCH22.html - Chairs of faculty Senate: - associate professors councils (and Bothell - Persons serving under - assistant professors and Tacoma faculty acting or visiting - principal lecturers organizations) appointments; - senior lecturers and senior artists in • are ex officio members - Persons on leave of residence • Considered members- absence; - lecturers and artists in residence at-large - Persons serving under - instructors - Each school, college, or clinical or affiliate - teaching and research associates... campus elects 1 senator appointments; for each 40 “voting - Persons of emeritus ...whether serving under: members of the faculty” status unless serving • visiting in the school, college, or on a part-time basis; • acting campus. To be eligible - Persons serving under • research for the Senate, a faculty adjunct appointments • clinical member must meet the insofar as their adjunct • affiliate appointment following criteria: appointments are • Must be a “voting concerned. Or whether serving:

members of the • part-time 5 Non-voting Members of faculty” , and • full-time the Senate: • Must be elected

- VPs and Provost or Or whether serving in an other administrative active, or officers who qualify as • voting members of the • emeritus status faculty - Chairs of college http://www.washington.edu/admin/rules councils (elected /policies/FCG/FCCH21.html

5 To see what qualifies as a “voting member of the faculty” see Section 21-32 (“Voting Membership in the Faculty”), available at http://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH21.html#2131. faculty councils of schools and colleges) are ex officio members - Deans of schools and colleges - Dean of University Libraries - President of the Associated Students - Graduate and Professional Student Senate Washington Faculty Senate **It appears that WSU does Tenure Accruing Appointments: State not have any information - Academic Faculty University about the eligibility • Professor; associate professor; and *The Faculty: requirements or composition assistant professor - Includes all employees, of the Faculty Senate. - Extension Faculty except student - Library Faculty employees, who have See http://facsen.wsu.edu/ - Scientific faculty received official faculty_manual/ appointments Non-Tenure Accruing Appointments: - Academic Faculty - Student Affairs Faculty - Extension Faculty - Research Faculty • Administrative officers and ranked Joint Appointments faculty assigned to Extension, Emeritus Faculty Appointment Continuing Education or Public http://facsen.wsu.edu/faculty_manual/Se Service. ciii_amended102512.pdf - Library Faculty • Dean of libraries and professional personnel of the library - Student Affairs Faculty

http://facsen.wsu.edu/fac ulty_manual/Section_I.p df (at page 11).

University of Faculty Council Apportionment factors are No college or school can Tenure Track: North Carolina adjusted so that the number be represented by more - Professor at Chappell (The legislative powers of elected members of the than one-third of the - Associate Professor Hill of the General Faculty Council is as near 70 as elected members. - Assistant Professor are vested in a Faculty practicable. Plus the Ex - Instructor Council) officio members. Fixed Term: http://www.unc.edu/facu The Council consists of two - Lecturer lty/faccoun/code/code20 groups: - Senior Lecturer 10.shtml#article2 - Master Lecturer 1. Ex officio: - Clinical http://academicpersonnel • The Chancellor - Research .unc.edu/faculty- • Chair of the Faculty - Adjunct policies- • Secretary of the - Visiting procedures/faculty- Faculty - Professor of the Practice conduct/index.htm • Members of the Faculty Executive http://academicpersonnel.unc.edu/facult Committee (consisting y-policies-procedures/faculty- of the chair of the appointments/index.htm#P28_2079 faculty, the secretary of the faculty, and 12 members of the voting faculty elected for the Executive Committee).

2. Elected Members: • All members of the voting faculty6 are eligible for election to the Council. • The elected members are chosen from 17 electoral divisions • Elected on the basis of one representative for each 42 members of the voting faculty assigned to the electoral division. • Divisions that are entitled to 2 or more representatives, elect on the basis of proportional representation of (1) professors, associate and assistant professors with permanent tenure, and librarians, and (2) all other ranks. • If there are too few

6 The “voting faculty” comprises: (i) all members of the General Faculty having tenured or probationary-term appointments, (ii) librarians who are members of the General Faculty, and (iii) fixed-term faculty whose positions satisfy the following criteria: (1) the position is not for less than 75% of an equivalent full-time position and is not a visiting appointment; and (2) the duties of the position include teaching, research, or both; and (3) the actual or anticipated length of service in the position is at least three years. Also, a member of the voting faculty who retires but continues on the faculty with a fixed-term appointment that calls for at least one-half time effort is deemed to retain the faculty rank and voting status that he or she held immediately prior to retirement. See http://www.unc.edu/faculty/faccoun/code/code2010.shtml. members of the voting faculty in either category (1 or 2 above) to qualify for at least one representative, then the two categories are combined.

University Senate7 The Senate Assembly Visiting, Adjunct or Tenure track faculty: University of consists of: Clinical Professors, as - Professor and associate professor Michigan - 74 elected faculty well as acting or interim - Assistant professor (Ann Harbor) Senate Assembly** members appointees to executive or - Instructor Dean positions, in the **Please note that there - The 74 members are absence of a regular Clinical instructional faculty is a University Senate apportioned among the professorial appointment, and a Senate Assembly. various schools and are not entitled to be Lecturers The Senate Assembly colleges according to the members of the University serves as the legislative number of University Senate. And therefore are Lecturers covered under a collective arm of the University Senate members in each not eligible for the Senate bargaining agreement Senate. unit. Assembly. Adjunct instructional faculty covered http://www.sacua.umich. - See apportionment Also, Directors of centers under a collective bargaining agreement edu/rules/rules- details, available at or institutes who do not

7 The University Senate consists of the following: All members of the professorial staff, the executive officers of the University, the dean of each school or college, such members of the research and library staff as may be designated in accordance with standards and procedures approved by the Senate Assembly, and such other major officers as may be designated by the Board of Regents from time to time.

Research personnel who hold Primary Research rank and have a full-time appointment as a regular staff member.

Librarians of any rank who have full-time appointments as regular staff members.

april1997.pdf http://www.sacua.umich. hold professorial rank are Adjunct clinical instructional faculty edu/rules/rules- not entitled to be members http://www.sacua.umich. april1997.pdf. of the University Senate, Visiting instructional faculty edu/senateassembly.html and, therefore, are not - Non-voting Members of eligible for the Senate http://spg.umich.edu/policy/201.34-1 the Senate Assembly Assembly. include: • The Secretary of the University Senate (Ex Officio) • 2 retired University Senate members.

Faculty Senate The members of the Senate Emeritus/emerita faculty Tenure Appointments: University of include: with governance rights are - Professor Wisconsin- not counted in - Associate Professor Madison http://www.secfac.wisc.e - Elected Members; determining the number of - Assistant Professor du/senate/index.htm • The faculty is divided senators to be elected from - Instructor into electoral districts. each district. http://www.wisconsin.ed A department having Probationary Appointments: u/acss/facreps/institution ten or more voting - Instructor s.htm faculty members8 - Assistant Professor constitutes a district.9 • A District is entitled to elect 1 senator for each http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/governance/ 10 voters. The district FPP/Chapter_7.htm

8 Voting members, it appears, are determined according to §§ 1.02–1.03. This states that the “university faculty consists of all persons who hold the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, or instructor with at least a one-half time appointment in UW-Madison, or with a full-time appointment jointly between UW-Madison and UW-Extension.” See http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/governance/FPP/Chapter_1.htm#102 at §§ 1.02–1.03.

9 Departments having fewer than ten voting members are combined into districts. A department having more than five but fewer than ten voting faculty members are designated as a district entitled to elect 1 senator. Voting faculty members without departmental affiliation are grouped in districts consisting of ten or more voting faculty members. Each faculty member is a member of only one district. See http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/governance/FPP/Chapter_2.htm#204 at § 2.03. is entitled to elect 1 additional senator if the number of its voters exceeds a multiple of ten by six or more.

- Members of the University Committee, Ex officio; • Consist of 6 faculty members, no more than three members are from a single school or college. See http://www.secfac.wis c.edu/governance/FPP/ Chapter_6.htm#654

- The Chancellor and all vice chancellors, Ex officio;

- The deans of the schools and colleges, Ex officio.

University of Faculty Senate The Faculty Senate includes The deans, vice 1. Regular (Tenured and Tenure- Minnesota the following voting presidents, chancellors, Track) Faculty: (Twin Cities) http://www1.umn.edu/us members: provosts, the University enate/constitution/senco (1) The president of the Librarian, and the General 2. Term (Non Tenure-Track) Faculty n.html University; Counsel serve as Ex (2) The vice chair of the officio nonvoting 3. Adjunct Faculty Faculty Senate; members. (3) 155 elected faculty10 or 4. Academic Staff qualified academic staff members11; and 5. Graduate Teaching Assistances (4) 10 elected members of the Faculty Consultative http://www.policy.umn.edu/Policies/hr/ Committee and the past Hiring/TEACHING.html chair of the Faculty Consultative Committee http://www.policy.umn.edu/prod/groups (Ex officio voting /president/@pub/@policy/@hr/documen members). ts/policy/teaching_appa.pdf

http://www1.umn.edu/usena te/constitution/fac_constituti on.pdf

Ohio State University Senate Voting members: Regular tenure-track faculty: University - 26 administration - Professor http://senate.osu.edu/rule members - Associate professor sbooks/facultyrules6221 - 70 faculty members12 - Assistant professor 2.pdf, at p. 13-40. - 41 student members (26 - Instructor undergraduate, 10 • Serve on appointments totaling graduate, 5 professional fifty percent or more service to the student members) university

10 “Faculty” includes (1) individuals who hold full-time regular appointments as defined in the Regents’ Policy “Faculty Tenure,” and (2) individuals who hold full-time multi-year or annually renewable term appointments and who have completed three years of service at the University. For the Election Process, see http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/constitution/fac_bylaws1.pdf.

11 “Qualified academic staff” means individuals who (1) hold full-time appointments as academic professionals, (2) have faculty-like responsibilities with a primary focus on teaching or research, and (3) have probationary/continuous appointments or have completed five years of service at the University. “Full-time appointments” are defined as requiring at least 67% time.

12 “faculty” includes persons appointed by the board of trustees with regular tenure-track, regular clinical, regular research, auxiliary, and emeritus faculty titles on full- or part-time appointments, with or without salary. See Faculty, available at http://senate.osu.edu/rulesbooks/facultyrules62212.pdf at p. 13-34. Non-voting members: Regular clinical faculty: - Chair of the Faculty - Serve under fixed term contracts and Council (if not already are not eligible for tenure chosen as a member of the Senate); Regular research faculty: - The president of the - Serve under fixed term contracts and alumni association; are not eligible for tenure - Secretary of the university senate; Auxiliary faculty: - President of the - See http://senate.osu.edu/rulesbooks freshman senate; /facultyrules62212.pdf, at p. 13-35. - President of the undergraduate student Emeritus faculty: government; - See http://senate.osu.edu/rulesbooks - President of the council /facultyrules62212.pdf, at p. 13-35. of graduate students, and; - President of the inter- http://senate.osu.edu/rulesbooks professional council; and /facultyrules62212.pdf, at pp. 13-34,35. - The chair of the university staff advisory http://oaa.osu.edu/assets/files/documents committee /facultyappointments.pdf

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