Introduction

  • This election is for University Faculty Development Committee College of Arts and Sciences Representative. The rules for this election are listed below.
  • The nominees for the University Faculty Development Committee College of Arts and Sciences Representative election are listed to the right. The list to the right is not a ballot.
  • This list in not official until nominations have been closed and the list of nominees has been reviewed and verified by the APSCUF Nominations and Elections Committee.
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The nominees for University Faculty Development Committee College of Arts and Sciences Representative are:

Robert Fletcher
Lisa Kirschenbaum

Nominations close May 6, 2014.
Regular Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences may be nominated.

Rules for the Election

    • Each department can have at most one representative on the University Faculty Development Committee.
    • The committee has nine faculty representatives--four from the College of Arts and Sciences, one from each of the Schools of Health Sciences, Education, Music, and Business and Public Affairs, and one from the non-classroom faculty--and four additional members representing various university groups.
    • The election is decided by a plurality of those casting votes unless such results violate the previous rules or the number of candidates does not exceed the number of positions to fill. In the later case, each candidate will be voted on by an approve/disapprove ballot.
    • Vacant seats will be filled one at a time with the current vacant seat filled by the candidate with the highest vote count. As each seat is filled, the candidate filling that seat and any other candidates from the same department as the candidate filling that seat will be disqualified. Votes cast for disqualified candidates, as just defined, will not be considered in filling remaining vacant seats.
    • Each candidate selected counts as a cast vote.
    • All regular terms begin the first day of the academic year.

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Robert Fletcher


Department: English

In my 20+ years at West Chester I have served on two other committees that oversee faculty grants--the University Faculty Awards Committee and multiple appointments to CASSDA--and I have chaired both. I have found the work of evaluating and supporting the scholarly endeavors of my colleagues both stimulating and gratifying. I would now like to bring my experience and enthusiasm for this task to the University Faculty Development Committee. Thank you for considering my candidacy.


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Lisa Kirschenbaum


Department: History

I have served on the Faculty Grant Development Committee in the past, and would welcome the opportunity to do so again. I am committed to the committee's mission of supporting faculty research across the university. I would bring to the committee extensive experience evaluating grants for outside agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.


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