Clarifying tenure-track election units

This proposal removes the names of specific schools from the section in order to prevent revising the Constitution every time a school is added, eliminated, merged or renamed. It also adds tenure-track to the faculty, to clarify that this section refers to that specific class of faculty. It sets a minimum of 15 tenure-track faculty in order to constitute an election unit and requires that the number of voting tenure-track faculty and librarian representative be no less than 60% of the total voting membership of the Council.

The Bloomington Faculty Council voted unanimously to approve this proposal.

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Implications

In addition to streamlining the descriptions of voting units, in order to avoid amending the constitution with every adjustment to the academic organization of the campus, this amendment makes clear that Tenure-Track appointee representation on the Council may not drop below 60% of the voting membership.