The following definition of electorate for the purpose of Department Administration is in the Handbook for Faculty, 1.51.

1.51 / Electorate

The department electorate shall, as a minimum, include all those serving as full-time (1.0 EFT) professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and tenured instructors, who provide at least 50 percent of their University duties within the department/library.  This group may, by majority vote, establish as a policy the extension of the electorate to (but no further than) visiting professors and all those in the department enfranchised to vote under the Faculty Senate Constitution (http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/handbook/FSConstitution-rev-1-05.html).
 

Administrators, as defined by the Faculty Senate Constitution, http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/handbook/FSConstitution-rev-1-05.html  are excluded from the department electorate.  A faculty member who has resigned or who is serving in the last year of a terminal appointment shall also be excluded from the electorate.

The Faculty Senate on April 24, 2006, approved the following amendments to 1.51 to be submitted to the General Faculty

1.  This group may, by majority vote, establish as a policy the extension of the electorate to those on phased retirement

2.  This group may, by majority vote, establish as a policy the extension of the electorate to full-time (1.0 EFT) instructors with faculty status who provide at least 50 percent of their University duties within the department/library.