Senate Nominating Committee |
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November 18, 2014, Volume 61, No. 14 |
SENATE: From the Senate Chair
TO: Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM: Claire Finkelstein, Chair
SUBJECT: Senate Nominating Committee
1. In accordance with the requirements of the Faculty Senate Bylaws, notice is given to the Senate Membership of the Senate Executive Committee’s nine-member slate of nominees for the Nominating Committee for 2015. The Nominating Committee nominates candidates for election to the Offices of the Faculty Senate, to the At-Large and Assistant Professor positions on the Senate Executive Committee and to the Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty and the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility. The nine nominees, all of whom have agreed to serve, are:
• Karen Beckman (Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, School of Arts & Sciences)
• Cristina Bicchieri (Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought & Comparative Ethics, School of Arts & Sciences)
• Emily Blumberg (Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine)
• Joseph Cappella (Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication)
• A. T. Charlie Johnson (Professor of Physics, School of Arts & Sciences)
• Charles W. Mooney (Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law, School of Law)
• Melissa Wilde (Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences)
• Beth Winkelstein (Professor of Bioengineering, School of Engineering & Applied Science)
• John Wolfe (Professor of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine)
2. Pursuant to the Bylaws, additional nominations may be submitted by petition containing at least 25 signed names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received by December 2, 2014. If no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Executive Committee will be declared elected. If additional nominations are received, a mail ballot will be distributed to the Faculty Senate membership. Please forward any nominations by petition via intramural mail to the Faculty Senate, Box 9 College Hall/6303. Please forward any questions to Vicki Hewitt by email at senate@pobox.upenn.edu or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.
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