March 6, 2009

Press Release

Spring 2009 Faculty Primary Election Results

NOTE: The General (run off) Election will take place online
March 25-April 7, 2009 via Employee Link.

The Committee on Elections met on March 6, 2009 and is pleased to announce the results of the Spring 2009 General Faculty Primary Election. A total of 240 ballots (representing 8.5% of the voting faculty) were received. The results are below.

At that meeting, the Committee also reviewed nominating petitions for the General Election (runoff election) for the two unsubscribed seats on the Committee on Committees and for six unsubscribed Faculty Senate-at-Large seats as per our announcement of February 16, 2009. Only four petitions were received for the six Senator-at-Large seats; therefore, we declare Dr. Charles M Higgins, College of Engineering, Dr. Kelly A Reynolds, Zuckerman College of Public Health, Dr. Timothy Ward Secomb, College of Medicine, and Dr. Susan E Wilson-Sanders, Non-College, elected as Faculty Senators-at-Large for a two-year term, 6/09-05/11.

We received no petitions for the two seats on the Committee on Committees.

And finally, the runoff for two seats on the Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee between the top four candidates will appear on the ballot for the General Election which will take place online March 25-April 7, 2009.

We respectfully thank our colleagues for their interest and patience.  Questions may be directed to us at the Faculty Center e-mail address in the above letterhead. Thank you for your attention and involvement.

 

COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS, 2008-09
J P (Pat) Willerton, Chair, Political Science
Marlene Helm, Library, Arizona State Museum North
Douglas E Jones, Science-Engineering Library 

 

Spring 2009 UA General Faculty Primary Election Results:

CHAIR OF THE FACULTY
*Howell, Wanda H
*elected

COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC  FREEDOM AND TENURE                                                                                                                                                                            
Besselsen, David G                 *Griego-Jones, Toni                       
Carvajal, Scott                           Karimi, Simin
*Davis, Owen K                         *Odegaard, Nancy
Fallahi, Mahmoud                     *Shaw, Linda
*elected

COMMITTEE OF ELEVEN                                                                                                                                                                       
*Duran, Javier D                                                                                                                                                      
*Hoyer, Patricia B                                                                                                                                                  
*Jones, Douglas E                                                                                                                                                   
*Songer, J. Glenn                                                                                                                                                    
*Strittmatter, Peter A 
*elected

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Two to be elected, for three-year terms  (6/09-5/12)
NOTE: The Committee on Elections  received no nominating petitions for the Committee on Committees by the March 5, deadline.

ELECTED FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES TO THE STRATEGIC PLANNING AND BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SPBAC)
NOTE: Because this phase of the election process is considered a Primary Election, the top four candidates will now move on to the run-off election, the General Election (March 25-April 7), as stipulated in the Bylaws (below).

The Faculty Bylaws, Article IV, Section 3, e

e. Senate Committee on Budget and Strategic Planning/Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee: If more than four are nominated for the Committee on Budget and Strategic Planning/Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee, the four receiving the largest number of votes in the primary election shall be candidates on the general election ballot, provided only that any candidate who receives a majority of votes in the primary election shall be declared elected. The nominees receiving the largest number of votes in the general election shall be declared elected to the positions to be filled.

**Betterton, Eric A                            **Geoffrion, Moira Marti
Conway, William E                             **Jones, John Paul III
**Duran, Javier                                 Mutchler, Jack C (J.C.)                               
** received one of the four highest number of votes – will be candidates in the online run-off election (March 25-April 7, 2009)

FACULTY SENATE AT-LARGE REPRESENTATIVES
*Aleamoni, Lawrence M            *Christenson, James A               *Conway, William E  
*Cusanovich, Michael A            *Effken, Judith A                          *Foley, Peter W
***Higgins, Charles M               *Hildebrand, John G                   *Jones, Douglas E
*Marmorstein, Alan D                *Plante, Elena                             ***Reynolds, Kelly A
***Secomb, Timothy Ward        *Songer, J. Glenn                         *Spece, Roy G          
*Strittmatter, Peter A                 ***Wilson-Sanders, Susan E      *Witte, Marlys Hearst

*elected          ***declared elected