The online polls will open at midnight on Monday, Feb. 9, to elect members of the 48th Senate of the Academic Council, and to nominate full professors to fill upcoming vacancies on the Academic Council’s Advisory Board.

Voting will end at 11:59 p.m. on March 1.

Voters will be able to cast ballots from their computers on a secure webpage. Voters will be required to sign in with SUNet ID to cast ballots.

Each year approximately half of the 55 elected members of the Faculty Senate are up for re-election. Members serve staggered 2-year terms.

All Academic Council members will receive emails advising them of the election and providing the link for submitting votes. Voters will be required to sign in with their SUNet ID.

Nominations to the Advisory Board

The Advisory Board, which handles the appointment, promotion and tenure of the Academic Council faculty, also provides recommendations and advice to the university president on a range of issues.

The board is composed of seven members who serve staggered 3-year terms.

Two members of the Advisory Board – the representative of electoral Group I (Electoral unit #1, Graduate School of Business; Electoral unit #3, School of Education; and Electoral unit #9, School of Law) and the representative of electoral Group III (Electoral Unit #6, School of Humanities and Sciences) – are up for re-election this year. Academic Council members from Groups I and III will be voting to nominate candidates.

The second round of voting for the 2015-16 Advisory Board, which will be open to all Academic Council members, will be held in March. The results will be announced during spring quarter.

An election for the chair of the senate and for its steering committee will be held in April. The results of the election also will be announced in spring quarter.

The senate includes 15 ex officio members: President John Hennessy, Provost John Etchemendy, the deans of the seven schools, the directors of the Hoover Institution and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the vice provosts for undergraduate and for graduate education, the dean of research and the Academic Secretary to the University.