Faculty Senate Constitution

Article l, Composition and Selection\

(a) The teaching/research faculty is defined as all full-time (1.0 EFT) university personnel who are tenured, temporary, probationary or instructors with faculty status professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and tenured instructors, and at least 50 percent of whose University duties include  teaching, research, and/or library service.   Eligible members of the faculty also serve as the electorate.  Administrators are ineligible for the Faculty Senate electorate.   Administrators, include those persons holding the title of President; Vice President; Associate Vice President; Assistant Vice President; Dean; Associate Dean; Assistant Dean; Directors of all non-academic programs including but not limited to  the Director of the Computer Center, Director of the  Office of Institutional Research, Director of Physical Plant, the Registrar, and Director of Cooperative Education

Faculty Senate Election Rules

2.  Each Senate division is allotted one Senator for every twelve faculty members, rounding up to the nearest integer.   Faculty members are defined as those individuals meeting each of the following :
            a. faculty status of tenured, temporary, probationary or instructor.    holding the rank of instructor or higher  
            b. holding half-time  (.5 EFT)      
            c.  having primary duties that are 50 percent or more teaching, research, and./or library service.
This definition also determines eligibility for election to the Faculty Senate