Under the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published under that rule.

TO:               Members of the Faculty Senate

FROM:          William W. Braham, Chair

SUBJECT:    Senate Nominating Committee 2022

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 2022 Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee’s function is to nominate candidates for appointments to all committees and positions for which the Faculty Senate has responsibility in appointing. The Nominating Committee consists of nine members: the Chair, Chair-Elect, and Past Chair, three incumbent members of the Senate Executive Committee, and three members of the Faculty Senate selected by the constituency representatives of the Senate Executive Committee.  The nominees, all of whom have agreed to serve, are:

• William Braham, Professor of Architecture, Weitzman School of Design; Faculty Senate Chair 
• Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Associate Professor of Social Policy and Practice, Senate Executive Committee Member
• Vivian Gadsden, William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education, Graduate School of Education; Faculty Senate Chair-Elect
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; Faculty Senate Past Chair
• Andrea Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics, School of Arts and Sciences
• Catherine McDonald, Associate Professor of Nursing; Senate Executive Committee Member
• Daniel Raff, Associate Professor of Management, Wharton School; Senate Executive Committee Member
• Kermit Roosevelt, David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice, Carey Law School
• Megan Ryerson, Associate Professor of City Planning and UPS Chair of Transportation, Weitzman School of Design

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 Tuesday, March 15, 2022. If no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Executive Committee will be declared elected. 

If additional nominations are received, an email ballot will be distributed to the Faculty Senate membership. Please forward any nominations-by-petition via email to the Faculty Senate office, senate@pobox.upenn.edu. Questions may be directed to Patrick Walsh by email to the address above or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.