ARTICLE I: FACULTY SENATE MEMBERSHIP

Section 1. Eligibility. To be eligible for election to the Faculty Senate, the faculty
member shall be full-time and tenured (strongly recommended) or on tenure track at Mesa State College, or permanent technical faculty at UTEC.

Section 2. Election of Faculty Senate Representatives.

2.1 Faculty Senate representatives shall be elected by the faculty of his/her constituency of Mesa State College.

2.2 For the purpose of faculty representation in the Senate and on the Curriculum Committee, each academic department shall constitute a constituency unless the departments elect by majority vote to combine their representation. If at some future date the faculty of those combined departments choose by majority vote, they can reverse such a decision.

2.3 Eligible voters for Faculty Senator shall be full time faculty members (defined as .8 FTE and above).

2.4 Each representative to the Faculty Senate shall have one vote. If an absent Senator has designated a substitute from the same constituency, that person shall have regular voting privileges for that meeting.

2.5 A majority of the members of the Faculty Senate shall constitute a quorum.

2.6 The Faculty Senate shall consist of faculty members serving three-year
rotating terms beginning the first meeting of the fall semester.

2.7 Faculty Senate representatives may serve only two consecutive terms.

2.8 The library staff shall have one non-voting representative on the Faculty Senate.

2.9 The Faculty Trustee shall be an ex-officio Faculty Senator with full voting privileges.

Section 3. Removal of Faculty Senate Representatives.

3.1 Any elected representative to the Faculty Senate may be recalled or
expelled from office.

3.2 A majority of the members of a department or constituency may petition for a recall of their representative. The petition must be delivered to the president of the Faculty Senate who shall then call for an election in that department.

3.3 Twenty-five percent or more of the members of the Faculty Senate
may petition its members for the expulsion of a Senator. Upon receipt
of the petition, the President of the Faculty Senate shall call for a vote
on the petition. If the vote supporting expulsion is two-thirds or more
of the membership of the Faculty Senate, the member shall be
removed from office, and the President of the Faculty Senate shall call
for an election within that department to fill such vacancy.

Section 4. Vacancies. When a vacancy occurs in the representation of a department
in the Faculty Senate, the department shall call for an election to fill such
vacancy.