Introduction

  • This election is for Sabbatical and Educational Leave Committee College of Arts and Sciences Representative. The rules for this election are listed below.
  • The nominees for the Sabbatical and Educational Leave 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.
  • The statements the candidates submitted with their nominations are given below. By clicking on a name in the list of candidates, you will be taken to that candidate's statement.
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The nominees for Sabbatical and Educational Leave Committee College of Arts and Sciences Representative are:

Afrand Agah
Lauri Hyers
Lainey Jenks
Graham MacPhee
Tim Starn

Nominations close Apr 30, 2013.
Tenured 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 Sabbatical and Educational Leave Committee.
    • Membership on the committee is restricted to the following structure: 4 faculty representatives from the College of Arts and Sciences, 1 faculty representative from each of the Schools of Health Sciences, Education, Music, and Business and Public Affairs, and 1 faculty representative from the non-classroom faculty.
    • 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.
    • Seats with longer terms will be filled first.

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Afrand Agah


Department: Computer Science


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Lauri Hyers


Department: Psychology

I am interested in serving as a CAS representative to the Sabbatical and Educational Leave Committee. I feel strongly that sabbatical/educational leave is essential to the professional development of our faculty, contributing to our university's faculty/scholar model. I have related university-wide experience with professional development matters through my service to the Faculty Mentoring Committee as member, mentor, Chair, and Program Coordinator. I am Associate Professor in the Psychology Department and currently on sabbatical leave for this spring semester, writing up several research projects on Gender Socialization. I would like to help maintain this valuable faculty development resource for all.


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Lainey Jenks


Department: Communication Studies

I would like very much to serve another term on the Sabbatical and Education Leave Committee because there’s no substitute for an extended block of time to read, think, study, create, and write about ideas. I’d be delighted to continue to work on this committee to help other faculty members receive sabbaticals.


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Graham MacPhee


Department: English

Faculty at WCU are committed to high-quality teaching in a way that is increasingly rare these days. But the other side of the 'equation' here is that we don't lose our sense of ourselves as scholars and inquiring minds. And that's why sabbaticals are a vital component of the WCU mix: I see the role of the sabbatical as crucial to the broader functioning of the university as a whole and of immediate benefit to all that we do.

I would be honored to serve as a CAS representative on the Sabbatical and Educational Leave Committee, and would endeavor to treat each application on its merits and in an absolutely fair and even-handed way. I have experience on university and college wide committees, and I have demonstrated my commitment to the institutional importance of research through participation in the Research Consortium, Research Day, the Faculty Grant Development Committee, and the National/Transnational/Global Cultures Research Group.


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Tim Starn


Department: Chemistry

Hello. I would appreciate your support in this election so that I can support our faculty in their academic aspirations.


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