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The following is a follow-up email regarding the Governance, Election and Balloting, and Charter and Bylaw Committees. We are still looking for interested individuals to join these committees. Please see the committee information below for details.</div>
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<b>As Vice Chair I am, by default, Chair of the Governance committee (see charge below) As such I am soliciting names of those interested in this service. Please email if you wish to nominate yourself or someone else.</b></div>
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<b>Martha I. Pallante, mipallante@ysu.edu</b></div>
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<b>Edmund C Ickert, ecickert@ysu.edu.</b></div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">COMPOSITION:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Five faculty members will be appointed to this committee by the Senate Executive Committee. Two of these appointments
shall be members of the Faculty Senate, the Vice Chair of Senate, shall be included in this number. When making appointments, the Executive Committee should choose one member for each undergraduate college. The Provost’s Office will appoint a designee to serve.
The Student Government Association will appoint a student to serve. These members will have a vote. The total membership will be 8 members.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>ACADEMIC SENATE BYLAWS</b></span></p>
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<b>Section 2. Governance Committee </b></div>
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(a) The Senate will establish a Governance Committee which will be charged with placing faculty members and department chairs on various committees within the Senate and on other university committees seeking Senate representation. </div>
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(b) this committee will keep and maintain a worksheet for each committee that includes: the name of the committee, the classification of the committee (Senate, University, etc.), the membership composition and means of appointment, the qualifications for and
terms of service, the chair and current members, the charge for this committee, and other information as deemed pertinent.</div>
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(c) All worksheets for an upcoming senate term should be introduced to the entire Senate at the April meeting of the previous term (with the exception of ad hoc committees which can be established at any time). </div>
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(d) Before the April meeting and in consultation with the existing membership of the committees, the Governance Committee will update any changes, including filling vacancies and reworking the charge. </div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: white;">(e)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> If a person is placed on a committee and refuses to participate in the work of that committee,
regardless of reason, the chair of the committee may petition to the Governance Committee to have that member removed. The Governance Committee will have final say on this and the removal will be indicated in the records of the Governance Committee. </span></div>
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(f) If a new, non-Senate committee is established during the course of the year, this committee will work with the Senate Executive Committee to fill the need. </div>
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(g) If a committee is charged with including a representative from each college and the college cannot find a willing faculty member to serve, the position will be left vacant. </div>
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(h) The administrative member shall be appointed by the Office of Academic Affairs no later than March 15.</div>
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(i) The Student Government Association will appoint a student member to the committee. </div>
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(j) The charge for the committee must be introduced to each senate at the April meeting and will be in effect for one full senate term.</div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>From the ACADEMIC SENATE CHARTER</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>SECTION 2-</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>-</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: dimgray; background-color: white; font-weight: 900;">The
composition and function of the elected chartered committees shall be:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>THE ELECTIONS AND BALLOTING COMMITTEE</b></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: dimgray;">(1) The membership of the Elections and Balloting Committee shall consist of one faculty member from each college to be elected from that college by the faculty of that college,
each to serve a two-year term.</span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: dimgray;">(2) Eligibility and election procedures shall be as specified in the Bylaws.</span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: dimgray;">(3) The Elections and Balloting Committee shall implement the provisions of the Bylaws as they relate to elections and balloting.</span></h5>
<div style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: dimgray;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>I am soliciting faculty nominations and/or self nominations to fill these five positions (one from each college).
Three will serve 2-year terms, the other two a 1year term. Please indicate your preference if you have one. Use the emails above.</b></span></div>
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<b>THE CHARTER AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: dimgray;">(1) The Charter and Bylaws Committee shall consist of six members, with three members elected annually by the Senate, each to serve a two-year term</span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: dimgray;">(2) Eligibility and election procedures shall be as specified in the Bylaws.</span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: dimgray;">(3) The Charter and Bylaws Committee shall receive or originate, consider, and recommend to the Senate such revisions of the Charter and Bylaws as are deemed necessary, reasonable,
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This committee shall make interpretations of the meaning and intent of Articles and Bylaws when questions are brought to the committee by Senate members or Senate Committees. Such interpretations are to be reported to the Senate for its information. If the
Senate, by majority vote, objects to an interpretation, the Charter and Bylaws Committee must submit a proposal for a Charter and Bylaws revision which would clarify the issue. Until the issue is resolved, any action based on the disputed interruption shall
be held in abeyance.</span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: dimgray; background-color: white;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>I am soliciting nominations
and/or self nominations to fill these six positions (at large). Three will serve 2-year terms, the other three a 1year term. Please indicate your preference if you have one.</b></span><span style="font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.67px; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>
Use the emails above.</b></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Edmund C Ickert, PT, DPT, PhD, CLT</span></p>
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