Inaugural 2009-2010

ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

AGENDA

TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2009

SEVEN HILLS CONFERENCE CENTER

NOB HILL ROOM

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

CALL TO ORDER 4:30 p.m.

WELCOME NEW SENATORS

AGENDA ITEM #1 – Approval of the Agenda for May 12, 2009

AGENDA ITEM #2 – Election of Senate Officers for 2009-2010

The Senate’s 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—REMINDER: Reception following the meeting

IMPORTANT: Upon completion of Agenda Item 2, the first meeting of the 2009-2010 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 2009-2010 Academic Senate Secretary.

A list of committee assignments is attached on GOLDENROD.