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ARTICLE III
ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES
Title B. Faculty Senate
1. Powers and Functions.
There shall be a Faculty Senate empowered to act for and to represent
the voting faculty of the State University of New York at
2. Qualifications of Elected Members. All voting faculty having at least one year
of full-time faculty experience at this institution at any time they take
office shall be eligible for election to the Faculty Senate.
3. Representation. Representation shall be by academic unit and
by academic sub-unit.
a. The President and the Provost shall be members of the Senate ex
officio and shall not be counted as representing an academic unit or sub-unit.
b. Election
of senators shall be by academic unit in non-departmentalized units, and by
academic sub-unit in departmentalized units.
Administrative officers with concurrent academic rank shall be counted
as members of the respective academic units or sub-units to which they have
been assigned, and are eligible for election as senators. Units
or sub-units having at least 5 and fewer than 10
11 members shall elect one senator. Units or sub-units having at least 10 12 but no
more than 24 19
members shall elect 2 senators.
Units or sub-units having more than 24 19 but no more than 27 members shall elect 3
senators. Units or sub-units having more than 27
but no more than 35 members shall elect 4 senators. Units or sub-units having
more than 35 members shall elect 5 senators. Units or sub-units having
fewer than 5 members may elect one senator or may, by mutual agreement, combine
with another sub-unit for the purpose of representation on the Faculty
Senate. If either option is chosen, the
sub-unit must notify the Secretary of the Faculty Senate, in writing, of its
decision to exercise this option; this notification must be given prior to the
next scheduled election. (See Article
III.B.6.b. below.) Such sub-units that
do not choose one of these options will not be represented on the Faculty
Senate. (See Article I.h. above.) (Approved
by faculty in mail ballot in December 2004)
5. Executive Committee. There shall be an Executive Committee of the
Faculty Senate.
b. Composition. The
Executive Committee shall consist of seventeen (Approved by faculty in
mail ballot in March 2006) members of
the State University of New York at
i. Nine from Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, distributed as
equally as possible among the divisions of the School; such distribution to be
determined by the Committee on Committees.
Each division shall be considered a separate constituency for the
purpose of this Article.
ii. Two from the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and
Applied Science. (Approved by faculty in
mail ballot in March 2006)
iii. Six (Approved by faculty in
May 2007), distributed one each from the Library; Health, Physical Education
and Athletics; Decker School of Nursing; School of Education; College of Community and Public
Affairs; and School of Management.
iv. The Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the Senate and the
Faculty Senator representing the faculty to the SUNY Faculty Senate shall be ex
officio voting members of the Executive Committee and, if not already a member
of the Executive Committee, the size of the Executive Committee shall be
(temporarily) increased. (Approved by faculty in
mail ballot in March 2006)
v. If one of the academic units listed in parts B.5.b.i. or
B.5.b.ii or B.5.b.iii (Approved by faculty in
mail ballot in March 2006) has fewer than 8 voting faculty, that unit will not have a member
on the Executive Committee and the size of the Executive Committee will be
reduced accordingly. Such a unit may
send a non-voting observer from among its voting faculty to Executive Committee
meetings. (Approved by
faculty in mail ballot in December 2004)