Vote in elections

Choose who you want to represent you on the Bloomington Faculty Council

BFC representatives are the voice of their constituents on a variety issues affecting the campus. Care about academic freedom? Interested in educational policies? Have concerns about promotion and tenure? If you can't run for a seat on the council, voting is another way to have a say in these important issues.

Elections to the BFC are a two-step process, beginning with nominations which determine candidates for each voting unit, and followed by a general election which determines who will sit on the Council. The elections process is outlined in Section 4 of the Bylaws of the Bloomington Faculty Council.

Beginning with the 2021 elections, the old system of nominating colleagues has changed to self-nominations in which individuals can choose to run for Faculty Council seats. A nominee's eligibility is verified and all eligible candidates are placed on the final ballot.

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Consider running for a seat on the Council

In the spring semester, the Bloomington Faculty Council Office and the BFC Nomination Committee receives self-nominations from individuals wishing to be candidates.

To know if you are eligible to run, please determine your voting unit and whether there are any seats up for election by consulting the following election circulars:

Specifically, the B36 and B37 circulars contain charts which detail how many seats are in each voting unit and how many are up for election this cycle. Please note that each volunteer may run either in their own unit or as an at-large candidate, but not both.

If you have any questions about any of these documents or your specific eligibility, please contact Elizabeth Pear, Director of the Faculty Council Offices at bfcoff@indiana.edu.

At the time of self-nomination, nominees have the option of submitting a candidate statement. These candidate statements are optional but encouraged, and provide voters with more information to guide their decision-making.

Before the final ballot is determined, nominees are verified for eligibility and all eligible candidates are placed on the ballot in the general election.

Learn more about the voting units

Nominate yourself for a seat on the BFC

The general election

The general election is the second stage of the election process and determines who will sit on the Council. In addition to council members, faculty are asked to select the next president-elect of the faculty.

The Bloomington Faculty Council Office circulates an electronic ballot to all voting faculty late in the spring semester. Access to the ballot requires IU authentication. If you have any difficulties accessing or navigating the electronic voting system, please contact bfcoff@indiana.edu

President-elect of the IUB Faculty

Candidates for president-elect are selected by and from the current BFC membership. Statements from president-elect nominees are required and available on the website and in the online voting system. The ballot also permits write-in candidates who are current, elected members of the Council.