Section 3 - Faculty Governance and Regulations

II. Organization

1. The faculty is organized into five Faculties. Departments and programs of similar interests and disciplines are grouped together.
   
   1. Fine Arts
      
   2. Humanities
      
   3. Interdisciplinary and General Studies
      
   4. Natural Sciences and Mathematics
      
   5. Social Sciences
      
2. Members of the faculty are expected to take an active part in the elections and deliberations of their Faculties.
   
3. Administrators with faculty status will be assigned to one of the Faculties appropriate to their academic credentials.
   
4. Elections of Representatives of the Faculties to Faculty Committees.
   
   1. Each of the Faculties shall elect its representatives to faculty committees unless otherwise provided.
      
   2. The electing of representatives to committees shall be governed by the following provisions:
      
      1. For purposes of electing representatives to committees, persons are voting members of the Faculty in which they hold their primary appointment. Only franchised members of the faculty may be voting members of a Faculty.
         
      2. For the purposes of electing representatives to committees, persons may also choose to be voting members of a second Faculty in which they hold a professional or pedagogical interest. Those wishing to be such voting members of a second Faculty must declare their intention in writing to the Associate Dean of that Faculty before the deadline announced by the Dean of the College.
         
      3. The Associate Dean shall publish lists prior to September 1 each year identifying those who, for purposes of electing representatives to committees, are voting members in their Faculties.
         
      4. Persons elected as representatives from a Faculty must be voting members of that Faculty. A person who is a voting member of more than one Faculty may be elected as a committee representative from only one of the Faculties. If a person is elected a representative from a Faculty and subsequently chooses not to be a voting member of that Faculty, that person must resign the elected position.
         
   3. Each of the Faculties shall have its own nominating committee. The membership of each Faculty's nominating committee shall be three franchised members of that Faculty.  One of these members shall be the Faculty's representative to the Nominating Committee who shall also chair the committee.  The other members shall be elected for terms of two years, the terms to expire in alternate years.  No two members of a Faculty's nominating committee shall have appointments in the same departments or programs.  No person shall serve more than two consecutive terms on a Faculty's nominating committee.
      
   4. The Faculties' nominating committees shall oversee all aspects of elections within their Faculty including soliciting nominations and preparing, distributing, and counting ballots.  Each nominating committee shall report the results of elections to the corresponding Associate Dean and to its Faculty.