TO: Members of the Faculty Senate

FROM: Steven Kimbrough, Chair

SUBJECT: Senate Nominating Committee 2020

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 2020 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:

   • José Bauermeister (Presidential Professor of Nursing)

   • Mary Regina Boland (Assistant Professor of Informatics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology)

   • Russell Epstein (Professor of Psychology)

   • Michael McGarvey (Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania)

   • Laura Perna (GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education)

   • Jennifer Pinto-Martin (Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing)

   • Andrew Postlewaite (Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics)

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

   • Steven Scherer (Ruth Wagner Van Meter and J. Ray Van Meter Professor of Neurology)

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 December 10, 2019. 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.