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Election Information

Questions To The Candidates For Academic Senate

For Senator

  • Which committees have you served on and when?
  • Which leadership roles have you held?
  • What do you think are the five most pressing issues facing the Academic Senate today, and how has your work over the past three to five years shown your commitment to these issues?
  • What would you do to keep your constituents informed, and what would you do to elicit feedback on important issues from your constituents?

For Coordinating Officer

  • Which committees have you served on and when? Which leadership roles 
    have you held?
  • What do you think are the five most pressing issues facing the Academic 
    Senate today, and how has your work over the past three to five years shown 
    your commitment to these issues?
  • How do you see your role as a senate officer in relationship to the 
    Administration and the faculty you represent?
  • What would you do to help ensure that the annual goals of the Academic 
    Senate are best realized?

For Vice-President or President-Elect

  • What will you do to keep all Academic Senate members updated about 
    important issues happening across campus?
  • What leadership roles have you assumed during your 美姬社区 
    career and which collegial governance accomplishment are you most proud 
    of? How does your previous service demonstrate your readiness to assume 
    the presidency, especially with respect to your ability to take a global 
    perspective on the college, to advocate for individuals and subgroups, and to 
    treat others impartially?
  • How would you determine which positions should receive reassigned time, 
    and which faculty would receive this reassigned time?
  • What would you do to ensure a more inclusive senate; specially what would 
    you do to welcome more faculty of color and women, CTE faculty and newer 
    faculty?
  • How would you decide who serves on what committee, and who is chair of 
    that committee?
  • What do you think are the five most pressing issues facing the Academic 
    Senate today, and how has your work over the past three to five years shown 
    your commitment to these issues?
  • What is your leadership style?
  • How do you see your role as a senate officer in relationship to the 
    Administration and the faculty you would represent?

Elections Calendar/Timeline

  • February 10 (Monday): Call for Nominations sent out. 
    Call for nominations. Please see eligibility information in the Call for Nominations emails you have received.
  • February 21 (Friday) by 5pm: Nominations close.
  • March 3 (Monday) by 5pm: Deadline for nominees to respond with a yes or no, and to submit candidate statement and answers to candidate questions for brochure. Each candidate statement needs to be sent in the body of an email (no attachments). We cut & paste from your emailed statement, and do not edit (including any edits for spelling/grammatical errors). 
  • March 5 (Wednesday) by 5pm: Election brochure with candidates information gets published to the AS website on this date. 
  • March 7 (Friday) by 5pm: Balloting begins. An email with exact instructions for voting will be sent to all voting members. 
  • March 13 (Thursday) by 12pm: Voting period ends at noon.  More details about how to get ballots to us and the time/place ballots will be counted will be provided on voting instructions.

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