SENATE: From the Senate Office: |
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April 7, 2015, Volume 61, No. 29 |
Under the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published under that rule.
TO: Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM: Beth Winkelstein and John Wolfe, co-chairs, Nominating Committee
SUBJECT: Senate Nominations 2015-2016
1. In accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules, official notice is given of the Senate Nominating Committee’s slate of nominees for the incoming Senate Officers. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are:
Chair-elect:
Laura Perna (Graduate School of Education/Higher Education)
Secretary-elect:
Marcella Devoto (PSOM/Pediatrics and Epidemiology)
At-large Members of the Senate Executive Committee to serve a three-year term beginning upon election:
Damon Centola (Annenberg School for Communication)
Karen Detlefsen (School of Arts & Sciences/Philosophy)
Karen Glanz (PSOM/Biostatistics & Epidemiology)
Kelly Jordan-Sciutto (School of Dental Medicine/Pathology)
Assistant Professor Members of the Senate Executive Committee to serve a two-year term beginning upon election:
Erol Akçay (School of Arts & Sciences/Biology)
Alison Buttenheim (School of Nursing)
Dan Singer (School of Arts & Sciences/Philosophy)
Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility to serve a three-year term beginning upon election:
Sue Ann Bidstrup-Allen (SEAS/CBE)
Vivian Gadsden (Graduate School of Education/Reading/Writing/Literacy)
Carolyn Marvin (Annenberg School for Communication)
Jon Merz (PSOM/Medical Ethics)
Diana Robertson (Wharton/Legal Studies and Business Ethics)
Senate Committee on Economic Status of the Faculty to serve a three-year term beginning upon election:
Andrew Postlewaite (School of Arts & Sciences/Economics)
2. Again in accord with the Senate Rules you are invited to submit additional nominations, which shall be accomplished via petitions containing at least 25 valid names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received no later than 14 days subsequent to the circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee. Petitions must be received by mail at the Faculty Senate, Box 12 College Hall/6303, or by hand at the Faculty Senate Office, 109 Duhring Wing, by 5 p.m., Tuesday, April 22.
3. Under the same provision of the Senate Rules, if no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Nominating Committee will be declared elected. |