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:        Harvey Rubin, Chair, Nominating Committee

Subject:    Senate Nominations 2016-2017

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: 

    Santosh Venkatesh (SEAS/Electrical & Systems Engineering)

Secretary-elect: 

    Paul Goldin (SAS/East Asian Languages & Civilizations)

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

    C. Neill Epperson (PSOM/Psychiatry)

    Barbara Medoff-Cooper (Nursing)

    Anil Rustgi (PSOM/Gastroenterology)

    Petra Todd (SAS/Economics)

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

    Cynthia Connolly (Nursing)

    Holly Pittman (SAS/History of Art)

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

    Kenneth Burdett (SAS/Economics)

    Robert Ghrist (SAS/Mathematics)

    Iourii Manovskii (SAS/Economics)

2. In further accordance with the 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 intramural mail at the Faculty Senate, Box 9 College Hall/6303, or by hand at the Faculty Senate Office, 109 Duhring Wing by 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

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.