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:         Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Chair, Nominating Committee
SUBJECT:    Senate Nominations 2024, Part One

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:

• Kathleen Brown (SAS/History)

Secretary-elect:

• TBD

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

• Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia (Dental Medicine)
• William Burke-White (Carey Law)
• Fernando Lara (Weitzman Design)
• Karen Lasater (Nursing)
• TBD

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

• TBD

Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility
    to serve a 3-year term beginning on July 1, 2024:

• Frank Setzer (Dental Medicine)
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD

Senate Committee on Economic Status of the Faculty
    to serve a 3-year term beginning on July 1, 2024:

• Anh Le (Dental Medicine)
• Mark Oyama (Veterinary Medicine)
• TBD

Also in accordance with the Faculty Senate rules, you are invited to submit additional nominations, which shall be accomplished via petitions containing at least twenty-five valid names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received no later than fourteen days after circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee by email to the Faculty Senate, senate@pobox.upenn.edu, or Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

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

The remaining slate of nominees will be published in a future edition of Almanac.