Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984 [PAGE 433]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

424

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 17

An administrator who holds faculty rank as defined above shall be a, member of the faculty electorate in the voting unit in which he/she holds faculty rank. Each member of the faculty electorate shall be qualified to vote for faculty Senators and to serve as Senator. f. Faculty Senators shall be elected for three-year terms with approximately one-third elected each year. A Senator who has served two consecutive three-year terms shall be ineligible to serve for a period of one year. g. All vice chancellors and deans who hold faculty appointments as described elsewhere in this Article shall serve as ex officio members of the Senate, without vote. If an ex officio member is elected to the Senate, his/her ex officio scat shall remain vacant during his/her elected term. Section 3. Student Membership. a. Student representation shall consist of 50 Senators elected by secret ballot by and from among the student bodies of the several voting units. For purposes of this Constitution, faculty members who are enrolled in courses or in specified programs shall not be considered as students. b. A voting unit is a college or independently organized school enrolling students in degree programs. The voting units shall be specified in the Senate Bylaws. C. T h e number of student Senators to be elected by each voting unit shall be established in proportion to the number of full-time equivalent students registered in each voting unit. For purposes of this Section, University Hospital residents and interns who do not hold faculty appointments are considered full-time equivalent students in the College of Medicine. There shall be no fewer than one Senator representing a voting unit and no fewer than ten representing the voting units comprising either the Health Sciences Center or the University Center. d. Student Senators shall be elected for one-year terms. A Senator who has served three consecutive terms shall be ineligible to serve for a period of one year. e. T h e student electorate shall consist of all persons who are candidates for a degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago and arc registered in a course or courses for credit at the University during the quarter in which the election is held, or are on the approved off-quarter vacation roster of the term in which the election is conducted, or are on an approved leave of absence for the term in which the election is conducted. Students on approved leave must have been registered at the University in the term preceding the commencement of the leave and must be scheduled to return to the University in the appropriate succeeding term. Additionally, the student electorate shall consist of all persons enrolled as postgraduate, professional, nondegree students. Such students may be enrolled either in courses a n d / o r in specified clinical or other professional programs. f. T o be elected to the Senate, students must be qualified electors. They must be in good academic standing as defined by the department and college in which they are enrolled. They may not be on disciplinary probation. Additionally they must be enrolled, at the time of election, for at least eight (8) hours of credit, or be in a full postgraduate, professional, nondegree program as described in paragraph e. of this section. This requirement shall not be construed so as to disqualify graduate teaching assistants or others whose University requirements mandate fewer than the normal number of hours for a full load.