Senate Elections Committee 2025-2026
Responsibilities: Bylaws (2022), SECTION 2. The Elections Committee shall be chaired by the Senate librarian. All other standing committees (the Graduate, Undergraduate, Academic Standards, Faculty Welfare, Faculty Development, Research, Service, Libraries, General Education and Core Curriculum Committees) are chaired by a voting member elected by the voting members of the committee for a renewable one-year term. Ad-hoc committee chairs shall be appointed by the Senate Executive Committee.
Bylaws, SECTION 19. The responsibilities of the ELECTIONS COMMITTEE shall be as follows:
- Coordinate the election of faculty to the Senate according to the procedures set forth in the University Statutes;
- Coordinate any other Senate elections as directed by the Senate Executive Committee;
- Address other specific questions in this area that may be requested by the Senate Executive Committee;
- Report to the Senate Executive Committee and the Senate as described in Article IV, Section 3;
- Work with the President’s Office to coordinate elections to university committees with Faculty Senate elections. Monitor elections to university committees, including the Faculty Grievance Committee when requested by the president;
- Conduct apportionment calculations annually in January using the full-time faculty count available from the provost. The committee will report their findings to the Senate Executive Committee, which will notify the election committees of the individual units regarding those findings and how many seats they have open for election; and
- Complete elections and report election results to the Senate Executive Committee by April 1 of each year.
Bylaws (2022). SECTION 13. ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
The responsibilities of the Elections Committee shall be as follows:
- Coordinate the election of faculty to the Senate according to the procedures set forth by each academic unit; coordinate any other Senate elections as directed by the Senate Executive Committee; work with the President’s Office to coordinate elections to university committees with Faculty Senate elections. Monitor elections to university committees, including the Faculty Grievance Committee when requested by the president; conduct apportionment calculations annually in January using the full-time faculty count available from the provost. The committee will report their findings to the Senate Executive Committee, which will notify the election committees of the individual units regarding those findings and how many seats they have open for election; Supervise the completion of elections and report senate election results to the Senate Executive Committee by April 1 of each year; and
- Address other specific questions in this area that may be requested by the Senate Executive Committee.
Note: At the January 2024 Faculty Senate meeting, a change to membership was approved. See page 51 of the agenda at https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Hk4a6pUXqEASmBBycaNT4rfCV9lswfH/view for the language of the change.
| COLLEGE | NAME | MEMBERSHIP STATUS | TERM ENDING | CAMPUS |
| Voting Member (SEC Appointed) | 2026 | |||
| College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) | John Thompson | Voting Member (Elected) | 2027 | Statesboro |
| College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (CBSS) | Elizabeth Rahilly | Voting Member (Elected) | 2026 | Armstrong |
| College of Education (COE) | Kymberly Harris | Voting Member (Elected) | 2026 | Statesboro |
| College of Science and Mathematics (COSM) | Voting Member (Elected) | 2027 | ||
| Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) | Voting Member (Elected) | 2027 | Statesboro | |
| Paulson College of Engineering and Computing (PCEC) | Kai Wang | Voting Member (Elected) | 2027 | Statesboro |
| Parker College of Business (PCOB) | Tony Barilla | Voting Member (Elected) | 2026 | Statesboro |
| University Libraries (LIB) | Jessica Garner | Voting Member (Elected) | 2026 | Statesboro |
| Waters College of Health Professions (WCHP) | Linda Thompson | Voting Member (Elected) | 2026 | Statesboro |
| Faculty Senate Librarian | Marieke Van Willigen | Non-Voting Member (Permanent Chair) | 2026 | Statesboro |
| Faculty Senate Secretary | Sidney Stoddard | Non-Voting Member | 2026 | Armstrong |
Last updated: 6/10/2025