Introduction

  • This election is for College of Arts and Sciences Special Election for Dean Search Committee Faculty Representative -- HUMANTIES and SOCIAL SCIENCES. The rules for this election are listed below.
  • The nominees for the College of Arts and Sciences Special Election for Dean Search Committee Faculty Representative -- HUMANTIES and SOCIAL SCIENCES election are listed to the right. The list to the right is not a ballot.
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The nominees for College of Arts and Sciences Special Election for Dean Search Committee Faculty Representative -- HUMANTIES and SOCIAL SCIENCES are:

Vanessa Johnson
Michael Peich
Ed Lordan, Ph.D.
Victoria M. Tischio

Nominations close Sep 11, 2006.
Regular Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences may be nominated.

Rules for the Election

    • All faculty members in a CAS department may vote in the elections.
    • Any faculty member in the departments of Anthropology/Sociology, Communication Studies, English, Foriegn Languages, History, Philosophy, and Psychology who is not a chairperson may be nominated for this seat.
    • Each department may have at most one elected representative.
    • The results of the chairs ballot will be determined first.
    • The election will be decided by plurality with the following stipulations:
      a. In the election for chairperson representatives, faculty members will be allowed to vote for three nominees. The nominee with the highest vote count will be elected to the committee. Of the remaining nominees, the nominee with the highest vote count among the chairpersons from the “sciences” will be elected and the nominee with the highest vote count among the chairpersons from the “humanities and social sciences” will be elected.
      b. In the non-chairperson faculty representative elections, the faculty member with the highest vote count that can be appointed without violating the previous rules will be elected to the committee. One faculty member representative will be from the “sciences” and one from the “humanities and social sciences”.
    • The appointment will last until the position is filled or the search is declared failed.

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Vanessa Johnson


Department: Psychology

I feel that it is important for CAS to maintain a balance between supporting faculty in both their classroom teaching and in other scholarly activities. This is a difficult balance to achieve in a climate of shrinking resources and increasing pressure to improve productivity. Such a climate can make it difficult to attract and maintain excellent faculty and students from a variety of backgrounds. If elected to this committee, I will push to hire a Dean who is sensitive to these issues and who is dedicated to improving support for scholarship.


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Michael Peich


Department: English/Poetry Center


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Ed Lordan, Ph.D.


Department: Communications


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Victoria M. Tischio


Department: English


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