Inaugural 2011-2012
ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING
AGENDA
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011
SEVEN HILLS
CONFERENCE CENTER
NOB HILL ROOM
3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER 3:45
p.m.
WELCOME NEW SENATORS
AGENDA ITEM #1 – Approval of the Agenda for May 10, 2011
AGENDA ITEM #2
– Election of Senate Officers for 2011-2012
The SenateŐs by laws (V., D., 1.) specify the following procedure for the election of senate officers:
1. Executive Committee Elections
a)
The
spring organizational meeting of the Senate shall be held as soon after
completion of election of new members as practicable, but in no case later than
the end of the instruction in the spring semester. At that meeting, the identified members
of the Senate for the next academic year shall elect their officers. A Senate member on leave for the fall
semester shall be deemed eligible to vote for Senate officers. In the instance of a Senate member on
leave for the entire academic year, the replacement shall be deemed eligible to
vote. The new Senate will assume
its official duties on June 1.
b)
Offices
shall be filled one at a time in order of chair, vice chair, secretary, first
at-large member, second at-large member.
c)
Nominations
shall be made by individual members of the Senate by secret ballot.
d)
Senate
members shall have the opportunity of withdrawing their names from nominations
after the nominations have been announced.
e)
Voting
shall be by written ballots unless there is only one nominee.
f)
To be elected,
a Senate member must receive a majority of the votes cast. (A written
abstention shall not be considered a vote cast.) In a run-off election, the candidates
shall be those listed in rank order of votes received whose combined total of
votes first exceeds a majority (i.e. if the top two have such a majority, they
will be the candidates; if it takes the top three for such a majority, they are
the candidates, etc.)
g) For the purpose of this election, the chair shall appoint two retiring Senate members as an Elections Committee to handle the voting procedures.
A description of the duties of these officers were emailed
to you and a partial list of duties can be found online, at http://www.sfsu.edu/~senate/constitution/
AGENDA ITEM #3
– ADJOURNMENT
IMPORTANT: Upon
completion of Agenda Item 2, the first meeting of the 2011-2012 session of the
Academic Senate will adjourn. Members
will immediately re-assemble into their respective standing committees for the
election of committee chairs. Election results must be reported directly to the
2011-2012 Academic Senate Secretary.