Affiliate Faculty Governance Elections

The CLAS Affiliate Faculty Governance Elections page contains information about affiliate faculty elections and, when available, serves as the voting portal.

Tenure-Track Faculty Governance Elections

The CLAS Tenure-Track Faculty Governance Elections page contains information about tenure-track faculty elections and, when available, serves as the voting portal.

1) Previous wording of the Preamble from the CLAS Bylaws for Faculty Governance:

CLAS Faculty Governance is a deliberative and broadly representative forum that exists to consider the activities of the University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) in all of its facets, with particular attention to educational objectives and those matters that affect the common interests of faculty, staff and students. Any standing committee may recommend general policies and otherwise advise the Dean of CLAS. All standing committees are authorized to initiate policy proposals as well as to express their judgment on those submitted to it by the administrative officers of the University and its various academic divisions. CLAS Faculty Governance is also empowered to request information through appropriate channels from the University administration.

Adopted revision to sentence 1 from the Preamble:

CLAS Faculty Governance is a deliberative and broadly representative forum that exists to consider the activities of the University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) in all of its facets, with particular attention to educational objectives and those matters that reflect the common interests of faculty.

2) Previous wording of Section 1.d. from the CLAS Bylaws for Faculty Governance:

Purpose:  The CLAS Faculty Development Committee (FDC) will advise the Dean on faculty development in teaching, scholarship, and service.  This includes the mentoring of new faculty consistent with the goals of liberal learning.  The committee will also advise the Dean on assisting faculty and student research collaboration, and will support faculty in the grant proposal process as a liaison between CLAS and internal and external audiences. 

Adopted revision to sentence 2 of Section 1.d.:

Purpose:  The CLAS Faculty Development Committee (FDC) will advise the Dean on faculty development in teaching, scholarship, and service.  This includes playing a role in the development of mentoring plans for new faculty that are consistent with the goals of liberal learning…

3) Previous wording of paragraph 1, Section 2.c. from the CLAS Bylaws for Faculty Governance:

During an election, faculty are awarded positions based on the election results. Faculty with the largest percentage of the vote will be awarded 3-year terms for Faculty Council, Personnel Committee, Curriculum Committee and Faculty Development Committee positions while those with the highest vote for the Affiliate Faculty Advisory Committee will be awarded 2-year terms. Shorter terms will be assigned in descending order of vote percentage. The length of the term awarded will be included in the notification sent to new committee members (see section 3j) For clarification on the approval voting process, see Section 3h. There are times when a committee member is unable to finish the term they were awarded.  In these cases, vacancies will be filled with shorter term (1 or 2 years) appointments to complete the original term.

Adopted revision to sentence 2 of Section 2.c. (if approved, this amendment would be applied to the W25 election and beyond):

During an election, faculty are awarded positions based on the election results. Faculty with the largest percentage of the vote will be awarded 3-year terms for Faculty Council, Personnel Committee, Curriculum Committee, Faculty Development Committee, and the Affiliate Faculty Advisory Committee…

4) Previous wording of Section 3.e. from the CLAS Bylaws for Faculty Governance:

A faculty member may not serve more than six consecutive years on the same CLAS governance committee; one year must pass before a faculty member is eligible again for election to that committee.

Adopted revision to Section 3.e. (if approved, this amendment would be applied to the W25 election and beyond):

Section 3.e. (“Term Limits”) will be removed from the Bylaws.

5) Previous wording of paragraph 1, Section 3.i. from the CLAS Bylaws for Faculty Governance:

With the following exceptions, the nominee(s) with the highest number of approval votes are elected:

No more than one person from any one unit may serve on CFC, FDC, CCC, CPC. If there are two nominees from the same unit for these committee positions, the one with the higher number of approval votes will be elected; if both nominees are tied, a coin toss conducted by the Faculty Council will determine the winner.

Adopted revision to paragraph 1, Section 3.i. (if approved, this amendment would be applied to the W25 election and beyond):

With the following exceptions, the nominee(s) with the highest number of approval votes are elected:

No more than one person from any one unit may serve on CPC. If there are two nominees from the same unit, the one with the higher number of approval votes will be elected; if both nominees are tied, a coin toss conducted by the Faculty Council will determine the winner. No more than two people from any one unit may serve on CFC, FDC, or CCC. If there are three nominees from the same unit for any of these committee positions, the ones with the higher number of approval votes will be elected; if all three nominees are tied, Faculty Council will draw names from a bag (or hat) to determine the winners.

6) Previous wording of Section 6.e. from the CLAS Bylaws for Faculty Governance:

Information on the work of the CFC, CPC, CCC, FDC, the standing committees of CLAS tenure-line Faculty Governance, will be available to CLAS tenure- line faculty. The current dissemination vehicle is the CLAS faculty blackboard page. Posted information may include meeting announcements, agendas, minutes, and other documents.

Adopted revision to sentence 2 of Section 6.e.:

Information on the work of the CFC, CPC, CCC, FDC, the standing committees of CLAS tenure-line Faculty Governance, will be available to CLAS tenure- line faculty. Information, which may include meeting announcements, agendas, minutes, and other documents, will be posted and accessible to faculty through the CLAS Faculty Governance webpage (password protected).

Faculty Governance Page

The GVSU Faculty Governance site is designed to facilitate communication between faculty representatives in university-wide governance and the faculty-at-large.

GVSU Faculty Governance

Ballot Committee Descriptions

This webpage contains a detailed description of all committees within CLAS including meeting times / locations, term limits, roles and responsibilities.

Ballet Committee Descriptions