Faculty senate nominations opens Aug. 22: 8/26

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Faculty senate nominations opens Aug. 22

By Brooke Fox
Faculty Senate Governance Committee Chair

The nomination period for faculty senate is open, so take a moment to consider and nominate faculty members who you believe would serve as good representatives for our University. As a senator or alternate, members of faculty senate will have the opportunity to actively shape MUSC policies to better serve the interests and needs of its faculty. In addition to sharing in the governance of our university, faculty senate is also an excellent forum for getting to know and networking with faculty members from other departments and colleges.

Faculty senate meetings are held once a month. Senators are elected to a two-year term and shall be eligible to serve a maximum of three consecutive terms. The terms of senators from each unit are staggered: one-half is elected each year. Alternate senators are elected to a one-year term. When a senator resigns the alternate with the greatest number of votes in the prior election automatically advances to the ex-senator’s position and completes the remainder of this term.

Faculty senators should represent the views and interests of the faculty of their respective electoral units and the faculty-at-large. Senators are expected to attend at least two-thirds of monthly meetings of the faculty senate and serve on at least one committee of the faculty senate. A senator who knows in advance that he/she will be unable to attend a meeting of the faculty senate is responsible for arranging for one of the electoral unit’s alternate senators to attend in his/her absence.

All faculty holding full-time primary academic appointments at MUSC with the rank of instructor or above are eligible to serve as faculty senators and alternates. This includes faculty with modifiers “research” or “clinical.” A tenure-track position is not required.

Go to http://www.carc.musc.edu/faculty_senate to make nominations.

Nominations close at 5 p.m., Monday, Sept. 5.

For more information, see http://www.musc.edu/facsen/ or contact your current senators (listed on this website). Guidelines for Senators/Alternates are in the ByLaws (online).

Friday, Aug. 26, 2011

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