Common use of Academic Employee Voting Rights Clause in Contracts

Academic Employee Voting Rights. A. For campus-wide situations requiring a vote of the faculty, each full-time tenured and probationary academic employee and each full-time, temporary academic employee with one or more years of seniority, has one vote in their primary department or division. In their primary department, temporary full-time academic employees with less than one full year seniority are not eligible to vote. B. Any academic employee with one or more years of seniority shall be eligible to vote for department chair in their primary department. Any member of the department who has been denied tenure or a probationary employee who has submitted a letter of resignation is not eligible to vote. If a member of the department is on a professional leave or leave of absence, the member is eligible to vote and is responsible to contact the department chair to make arrangements to vote. C. For intra-department business other than the election of department chairs, all full- time academic employees and employees assigned to a department as a liaison have one vote each.