FACULTY GOVERNANCE ELECTIONS 2000
--Last updated Thursday, December 9, 1999

 

Elections are to be held in the Spring Semester of 2000 for service on committees and assemblies to commence at the start of Fall 2000 semester. In general the service period is three years.

Elections to Standing Committees of the General Faculty and the Academic Faculty are carried out under the supervision of the Executive Board. We solicit names of persons who would like to stand for election; expressions of interest should be directed to the nominating committee. These elections are discussed under item A below.

Elections to the General Faculty Assembly and the Academic Senate are performed internally by unit. These are discussed under item B. below.

 

A. ELECTIONS TO STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE GENERAL FACULTY AND THE ACADEMIC FACULTY.

Nominations: Nominations including self-nominations are to be made to the Chair of the "Nominating Committee" (see below) before January 28, 2000. The nominating committee prepares the slate for the election process.

Nominating Committee: This was appointed by the Executive Board at its meeting on December 7, 1999.

Craig Zimring, Arch, Chair

Don Frank, Library, Co-chair

Kent Barefield, CoS

Tom Akins, Co-op

Lisa Sills, GTRI

Bill Sayle, EE, Acting as an ex-officio advisor (past year's chair of the Nom. Com.)

One student to be nominated by the Student Government

Schedule and Deadlines.

January 28, 2000

Deadline for nominations and self-nominations for candidacy

February 15, 2000

Nominating Committee reports proposed slate to the Executive Board for approval

March 13, 2000

Secretary of the Faculty Mails ballot

March 27, 2000

Deadline for receipt of ballots

April 18, 2000

Secretary of the Faculty reports results of elections to the Executive Board. Arrangements made for any necessary run-off elections

June 1, 2000

Secretary of the Faculty posts results to the Facultysenate web site and notifies individuals of the results of the elections

Positions Subject to Election in 2000

 

STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL FACULTY:

2.1 Faculty Benefits Committee.

Candidates from the General Faculty are sought for election to two positions:

#1 To replace Marilyn Williamson (Library) who may run for a further term

#2 To replace James Higgins (GTRI) who may run for a further term 

2.2 Faculty Honors Committee

Candidates are sought from the General Faculty for election to one position:

#1 To replace Carol Colatrella (LCC) who may run for a further term

2.3 Faculty Status and Grievance Committee

Candidates are sought from the General Faculty for election to two positions:

#1 To replace Prateen Desai (ME) who may run for a further term

#2 To replace John Muzzy (ChE) who may run for a further term

2.4 Statutes Committee

Candidates are sought from the General Faculty for election to two positions:

#1 To replace John Dorsey (EE) who may run for a further term

#2 To replace Marc Smith (ME) who may run for a further term

2.5 Academic Services Committee

Candidates are sought from the General Faculty for election to three positions:

#1 For a one year term to replace Carol Colatrella (LCC) who may run for a further term

(Colatrella is serving a one-year appointed position to fill the unexpired term of someone who resigned. The election is for a one-year period to complete the unexpired term.)

#2 To replace Joe Boland (Cont. Ed) who may run for a further term

#3 To replace Paul Ohme (CEISMC) who may run for a further term

2.6 Welfare and Security Committee

Candidates are sought from the General Faculty for election to three positions:

#1 For a one year term to replace James Cannady (GTRI) who may run again

Cannady is serving a one-year appointed position to fill the unexpired term of someone who resigned. The election is for a one-year period to complete the unexpired term.)

#2 To replace Carole Moore (Acad SERvc) who may run again

#3 To replace Gary Parker (ISyE) who may run again

 

STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE ACADEMIC FACULTY

3.1 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Candidates are sought from the academic faculty of the Ivan Allen College, College of Architecture and College of Management:

#1 To replace Arnold Schneider (Mgt) who may run again

#2 To replace Betty Dowling (Arch) who may run again

#3 To replace Guy Giebelhaus (HTS) who may run again

3.2 Graduate Curriculum Committee

Candidates are sought from the academic faculty of the College of Management (one), College of Engineering (three), and College of Computing (one):

#1 To replace Leonard Parsons (Mgt) who may run again

(Parsons is serving a one year "appointed" term to replace a person who resigned. The candidates for this position will run for the one year unexpired term of that position.)

#2 To replace April Brown (ECE) who may run again

#3 To replace R. Edward Omiecinski (CC) who may run again

#4 To replace Jeff Jagoda (AE) who may run again

#5 To replace John VandeVate (IsyE) who may run again

3.3 Student Regulations Committee

Candidates are sought from the Academic Faculty for two positions:

#1 To replace Fred Andrew (Math) who may run again

#2 To replace Alan Larson (ME) who may run again

3.4 Student Academic and Financial Affairs

Candidates are sought from the academic faculty for four positions:

#1 To replace William Johnson (ML) who may run again

(Johnson is serving a one year appointed term to replace a person who resigned. This race would be for the remaining one year term of the original incumbent)

#2 To replace Miroslav Begovic (ECE) who may run again.

#3 To replace David Collard (Chem) who may run again

#4 To replace Scott Wills (ECE) (Who may NOT run again)

3.5 Student Activities Committee

Candidates are sought from the academic faculty for one position:

#1 To replace James Gole (Phys) who may run again

3.6 Student Grievance and Appeal Committee

Candidates are sought from the Academic Faculty for one position:

#1 To replace Ken Cunnefare (ME) who may run again

3.7 Student Honor Committee

Candidates are sought from the Academic Faculty for two positions:

#1 To replace Jack Lackey (ME) who may run again

(Lackey is serving a one year appointed position to replace a person who resigned. Election to this position is for the remaining two year unexpired term of the previous incumbent)

#2 To replace Paul Wine (Chem) who may run again

3.8 Student Computer Ownership Committee

Candidates are sought from the Academic Faculty for one position:

#1 To replace Matthew Realff (ChE) who may run again

 

THE EXECUTIVE BOARD

Elections to the Executive Board are made FROM persons currently serving in the GFA. The list of persons currently serving on the GFA is to be found at:

http://www.facultysenate.gatech.edu/GeneralFacultyReps.html

The Nominating Committee is responsible for preparing a slate of candidates drawn from these representatives. The committee welcomes expressions of support for individual names and expressions of self-interest from GFA members. The specific Executive Board Positions subject to election this year are:

Executive Board Representative from Management.

To replace Narayanan Jayaraman who may run again (since he is serving an "appointed" one-year period on the EB and remains an elected member of the GFA)

Executive Board Representative from Computing

To replace Karsten Schwans

Executive Board Representative from GTRI

To replace Lisa Sills

Executive Board Representative from Architecture

To replace Craig Zimring

Executive Board Representative From Engineering

To Replace Said Abdel-Khalik who may run again (since he is serving an "appointed" one year period on the EB and remains an elected member of the GFA)

 

GENERAL NOTES

(1) Service is generally for a three-year period.

(2) Where a person has been serving an "appointed" period of service to replace someone who has resigned then the election is for the remainder of the original unexpired term only.

(3) For a very few committees there are additional restrictions on candidacy specified in the statutes; the Nominating Committee will ensure that these restrictions are met.

(4) The current records of these committees show some periods of present service as less than three years. This occurs because of a transition made from two years service to three years service (in 1998); the staggered and irregular service periods are related to the transitional arrangements.

(5) No person may serve more than two consecutive terms as an elected member of a committee. No person may serve on more than two committees. Persons elected to the Executive Board may not serve on a committee and must be replaced when elected.

 

B. ELECTIONS TO THE GENERAL FACULTY ASSEMBLY AND TO THE ACADEMIC SENATE.

These are generally handled internally by individual units.

Colleges: On or about April 1, 2000 the Secretary of the Faculty contacts the Chairs of Schools (or the Dean in the case of Colleges without Schools) with instructions on how to perform the elections and the number of vacant positions.

GTRI : On or about April 1, 2000 the Secretary of the Faculty contacts the Administrative Office of this unit with instructions on how to perform the elections and the number of vacant positions.

Administration and Central Services: Elections for this group are performed by the Secretary of the Faculty (SoF) and with the supervision of the Executive Board. On or about February 1, 2000 the SoF solicits names of interested persons and nominations from various constituencies of this group. An election ballot is created and sent with the ballots for standing committees (on or about March 1 2000). The broad arrangements for this group will follow the procedure decided by the EB on March, 1999 which is given on the web site:

http://www.facultysenate.gatech.edu/elections.html