TO:    Members of the Faculty Senate

FROM:        Santosh Venkatesh, Chair

SUBJECT:  Senate Nominating Committee 2018

1. In accordance with the requirements of the Faculty Senate Bylaws, notice is given to the Senate Membership of the Senate Executive Committee’s nine-member slate of nominees for the Nominating Committee for 2018. The Nominating Committee nominates candidates for election to the Offices of the Faculty Senate, 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:

Cristina Bicchieri (S.J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics)

Jere Behrman (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics)

Toni Bowers (Professor of English)

Samantha Butts (Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania)

Margo Brooks Carthon (Associate Professor of Nursing)

Irma Elo (Professor of Sociology)

Johanna Greeson (Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Practice)

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

Laura Perna (James S. Riepe Professor of Education)

2. Pursuant to the Bylaws, 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 21, 2017. 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, Box 9 College Hall/6303. Please forward any questions to Patrick Walsh by email at senate@pobox.upenn.edu or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.