Senate Nominating Committee
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The Senate Nominating Committee is a requirement of the Faculty Senate Rules. Its task is to make appointments to all standing positions that the Faculty Senate has the responsibility to appoint.
The Committee's membership includes three current SEC members, three members of the Standing Faculty who are not current SEC members, and the three Senate Tri-Chairs (who collectively have a single vote). Terms are one year each beginning on January 1, and the membership is determined annually by SEC during the preceding fall semester.
The 2023 Senate Nominating Committee is comprised of the following members:
- William Braham (Professor of Architecture; Faculty Senate Past Chair)
- Warren Breckman (Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; Senate Executive Committee Member)
- Tulia Falleti (Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science; Faculty Senate Chair-Elect)
- Vivian Gadsden (William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education; Faculty Senate Chair)
- Maria Geffen (Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Neuroscience and Neurology)
- Vera Krymskaya (Professor of Medicine; Senate Executive Committee Member)
- Claire Mitchell (Professor of Dental Medicine; Senate Executive Committee Member)
- Emily Steinlight (Associate Professor of English)
- Shu Yang (Joseph Bordogna Professor of Materials Science and Engineering)
The Senate Nominating Committee makes appointments of Standing Faculty members to the following positions that require publication in Almanac for review:
- Senate Chair-Elect
- Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (SCAFR) members
- Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (SCESF) members
- Senate Executive Committee Secretary-Elect
- Senate Executive Committee At-Large members
- Senate Executive Committee Assistant Professor members
Additional nominations for the above positions may be submitted by a petition of 25 Standing Faculty members within two weeks of the slate's publication.
The most recent slate was published in two parts:
- May 23, 2023
- July 18, 2023
