Common use of Selecting a Successor Department Chair or Filling a Vacancy from outside the Department Clause in Contracts

Selecting a Successor Department Chair or Filling a Vacancy from outside the Department. The President, after first consulting with the Chapter President, and upon a majority vote of the members of a department, may select a Department Chair from outside the department. Upon notification by the President, the Vice President and the Chapter President shall convene a meeting of the members of the affected department at which the members of the department shall elect not fewer than two (2) among them who shall serve as the members of the Search Committee to recruit a candidate or candidates for the position of Department Chair. The committee shall submit its recommendation to the Vice President. A vacancy in a chair of a department shall not be filled by a faculty member appointed for that purpose unless the President shall have allocated or reallocated to and authorized the filling of a funded vacant faculty position in that department; provided, however, that such a vacant position shall have not been created by the retrenchment of any unit member. During the period in which any search is being conducted, the responsibilities of the Department Chair shall be discharged, if applicable, by an acting Department Chair.