Petition for Representation

Each department or academic unit with five or more full-time academic personnel lines shall be entitled to one faculty senator. Those departments having twenty or more full-time academic personnel shall be entitled to two faculty senators. To be counted, the academic personnel must have a majority line in that department/unit.

Academic Personnel includes tenure track and tenured faculty, as well as non-tenure track academic personnel and academic personnel on a fixed term appointment (including extended term academic professionals), including:

• Archivists,
• Clinical Professors,
• Curators,
• Executive Professors,
• Extension Educators,
• Faculty Development Professionals,
• Instructional Professors
• Lecturers,
• Librarians, and
• Professors of Practice. 

Departments/units without Faculty Senate representation may petition for representation by completing a

Petition for Representation (Word document)