TO: Members of the Faculty Senate

FROM: Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Chair

SUBJECT: Senate Nominating Committee 2019

1. In accordance with the requirements of the Faculty Senate Rules, notice is given to the Senate Membership of the Senate Executive Committee’s nine-member slate of nominees for the 2019 Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee nominates candidates for election to the office of the Faculty Senate Chair, to the At-Large and Assistant Professor positions on the Senate Executive Committee, to the Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty and to the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility. The nine nominees, all of whom have agreed to serve, are:

Nelson Flores (Associate Professor of Education)

Richard Gelles (The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Policy & Practice)

Michael Golden (Associate Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania)

Jeffrey Jaeger (Professor of Clinical Medicine)

John MacDonald (Professor of Criminology and Sociology)

Lea Ann Matura (Associate Professor of Nursing)

Andrew Postlewaite (Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics; Professor of Finance)

David Rubin (Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)

Santosh Venkatesh (Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering)

2. Pursuant to the Rules, additional nominations may be submitted by petition containing at least 25 signed names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received by November 28, 2018. If no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Executive Committee will be declared elected. If additional nominations are received, a mail ballot will be distributed to the Faculty Senate membership. Please forward any nominations-by-petition via intramural mail to the Faculty Senate, c/o Patrick Walsh, at Box 9, College Hall/6303 or by email to senate@pobox.upenn.edu Questions may be directed to Mr. Walsh by email to the address above or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.