General Membership

Taken from OAR 571-003-0007:

(3)(a) The committee shall have its three members, all of whom must be tenured, elected by the non-students eligible to vote at meetings of the University Assembly. Current Deans and Department Heads shall not be eligible to serve. The committee shall consist of one representative from the College of Arts and Sciences, one from the professional schools and one At-Large. Nominees, none of whom may be from the same department, shall be persons who have been previously elected to serve (and have served) on the Faculty Personnel Committee, with the following exceptions;

(b) No one may serve simultaneously on the Faculty Personnel Committee and the Promotion/Tenure/Retention Appeals Committee;

(c) Any member who served on the Faculty Personnel Committee of the College Personnel Committee, or who participated in the departmental vote when the grieved action or decision (or informal reviews thereof) occurred must be excused from hearing such an appeal but shall otherwise continue to serve on this committee;

(d) Members of the committee may not serve successive terms;

(e) If any one (or more) member(s) is disqualified under subsection (c) of this section, the fourth and subsequent candidate(s) in the election for the committee shall be asked to serve in place of the disqualified member(s);

(f) The Committee on Committees shall insure a slate of at least two candidates for each open position each year. The candidates shall otherwise be qualified and shall be chosen to insure the division of membership specified in section (1) of this rule;

(g) Candidates may also be nominated by petition. A petition with ten valid signatures of voting faculty shall place those candidates on the ballot. Petitions shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Faculty and shall specify whether they are for candidates to represent the College of Arts and Sciences or the Professional Schools and Colleges or the At-Large position;

(h) Separate ballots shall be prepared for candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Professional Schools and Colleges. The ballots shall list the candidates nominated by the Committee on Committees and those nominated by petition. All ballots shall be circulated to all voting faculty members;

(i) All members shall be elected to serve staggered three-year terms. At the tie of the first election, the person receiving the third highest number of votes shall fill the At-Large position. The one-, two-, and three-year terms of service shall be made by lot. Thereafter, one person shall be elected each year for a three-year term as determined by the original lot, except for those elected to fill vacancies of unexpired terms.

Ex-Officio, voting members

Ex-Officio, non-voting members