1.01 – Definition of Faculty and Voting Rights

  1. Faculty
    1. The University Faculty consists of the Chancellor, Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and Instructors in an academic department or its functional equivalent.
    2. A full-time member of the instructional academic staff who has a probationary or indefinite appointment and who has voting rights in the department (4.02) and in the college (2.02(4)) may, subject to an affirmative recommendation by the department or its functional equivalent and approval by the Faculty Senate and the Chancellor, be designated as having Faculty status. Faculty status means the right to participate in the Faculty governance of the University. Faculty status does not confer rank or tenure or convert an academic staff appointment into a Faculty appointment
    3. As used throughout these rules, an “appointment” (unmodified) is an agreement between an individual and a department, school, college, or other unit of the University. The elements of an appointment are (1) duties; (2) title; (3) percentage time commitment; (4) beginning and ending dates; (5) financial remuneration, if any; (6) departments or other units involved; and (7) governance rights. “Appointment” may also be modified: “Tenure appointments” and “Probationary appointments” are defined in Chapter 5. A “joint appointment” involves more than one department and/or school and/or college, or other unit of the University. A “joint probationary appointment” or “joint tenure appointment” occurs when two or more departments and/or schools and/or colleges share a continuing obligation or commitment to a Faculty member under the provisions of Chapters 4 & 5.
  2. Voting
    1. Only persons having Faculty appointments or Faculty status as designated in 1.01(1) may vote.
    2. By a majority vote of those present and voting, any matter properly brought before a Faculty meeting may be referred to all Faculty eligible to attend and vote, for a mail ballot. Such ballots shall be prepared and distributed by the Secretary of the University who shall be responsible for the counting of votes. Unless specified otherwise in the referring motion, such mail ballots must be received by the Secretary of the University within seven (7) working days of initial distribution to be counted as valid.