A total of 56 senators serve on Faculty Senate, representing all the degree-granting colleges, academic units with deans from the Athens and regional campuses. Forty-seven (47) senators are elected by the tenure-track faculty and 9 are elected by the non-tenure-track faculty (instructional and clinical faculty).
Representation of tenure-track faculty is proportional to the numbers of faculty members eligible to serve on the Faculty Senate. In addition, each degree-granting college or until headed by a dean and having a tenure-track faculty member is entitled to have at least one representative on senate. For non-tenure-track faculty, each Athens campus college with a minimum of twenty (20) eligible instructional faculty members will elect one or more senators to represent that college; all colleges on the Athens campus with fewer than twenty (20) instructional faculty shall be combined to elect at-large senator(s) from those colleges to serve on Faculty Senate; all instructional faculty on regional campuses shall combine to elect at-large senators from the instructional faculty of regional campuses to represent those faculties. Clinical faculty from HCOM and CHSP shall elect at least one at-large senator from among their ranks to represent those faculty.
Because representation is proportional to the numbers of faculty members eligible to serve on the Faculty Senate, senate representation by academic units may vary year-to-year depending upon the number of faculty members eligible to serve on the Faculty Senate.
For the 2022-2023 academic year, the following provides the number of senators per academic unit (in alphabetical order of academic unit):
Elections are held by secret ballot each year. At least two weeks prior to the date of the election, the Senate Elections Committee (normally consisting of the Executive Committee) circulates a call for nominations of eligible faculty members for the senate. The Elections Committee draws up a ballot listing all eligible nominees who have agreed to stand for election. All tenure-track faculty members with faculty status are eligible to vote for members, and all instructional faculty are eligible to vote for the instructional senators in their college or regional campus. All clinical faculty are eligible to vote for clinical faculty in their respective colleges. Rules of Election are provided in the Faculty Handbook, Constitution of the Faculty Senate of Ohio University, Bylaws of the Faculty Senate of Ohio University.
Elections are held in the second half of March each year.
Senators are elected for three-year terms to replace those whose terms of office have expired. Senators are permitted to serve two terms in succession (i.e., six years).
Newly elected senators assume office on April 1. Terms of office expire on July 31.
YES. Procedures for recalling faculty senators are provided in the Faculty Handbook, Constitution of the Faculty Senate of Ohio University.