Pursuant to 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:       Jere Behrman, Chair, Nominating Committee

SUBJECT:  Senate Nominations 2018-2019

1. In accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules, official notice is given of the Senate Nominating Committee’s slate of nominees for the incoming Senate Officers. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are:

Chair-elect: 

• Steven Kimbrough (Wharton/Operations, Information and Decisions)

Secretary-elect:

• Carmen Guerra (PSOM/Medicine)

At-large Members of the Senate Executive Committee to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election:

• Chao Guo (Social Policy and Practice)
• Jianghong Liu (Nursing)
• Guillermo Ordonez (SAS/Economics)
• Melissa Wilde (SAS/Sociology)

At-large Members of the Senate Executive Committee to serve a 1-year partial term beginning upon election in order to fill a vacancy:

• Michael McGarvey (PSOM/Neurology)

Assistant Professor Members of the Senate Executive Committee to serve a 2-year term beginning upon election:

• Amy Castro Baker (Social Policy & Practice)

Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election:

• David Eng (SAS/English)
• Toorjo Ghose (Social Policy and Practice)
• Jon Merz (PSOM/Medical Ethics and Health Policy)

Senate Committee on Economic Status of the Faculty to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election:

• Pamela Sankar (PSOM/Medical Ethics and Health Policy)

2. Again in accordance with the Senate Rules, you are invited to submit additional nominations, which shall be accomplished via petitions containing at least 25 valid names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received no later than 14 days subsequent to the circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee. Petitions must be received by mail at the Faculty Senate, Box 9 College Hall / 6303, or by hand at the Faculty Senate Office, Duhring Wing Room 109, by 5 p.m., Monday, May 7.

3. Under the same provision of the Senate Rules, if no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Nominating Committee will be declared elected.