Faculty Policies and Procedures Handbook

H. Faculty Vote of No-Confidence in the Senate

A faculty vote of no‐confidence in the Senate must proceed as follows:

  1. Twenty‐five percent of the full‐time Faculty must sign a written petition requesting a special meeting of the full Faculty and present that petition to the current president of the Senate.
  2. The president of the Senate must set a date for a full faculty meeting, at a reasonable time, not more than two weeks after receiving the petition. The purpose of the faculty meeting is to discuss the question of a no-confidence vote.
  3. Following the faculty meeting, secret ballots will be distributed to the full faculty membership, with ballots returned to a central location.
  4. Ballots will be counted by the three most senior members of the Faculty who are available.
  5. A two‐thirds no‐confidence vote of the full faculty membership will result in new elections for all Senate positions.