APPENDIX A.
FACULTY
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF
BY-LAWS OF THE FACULTY CONSTITUTION OF
I. Attendance,
Seating, and Participation
A. To facilitate the efficient flow of business,
Senators shall be seated as follows:
1. Ex-officio
members shall be assigned seats on one
row.
2. Elected members
shall be assigned seats in alphabetical order by electoral units.
B. Only
elected and ex-officio members (including alternates, if representing their electoral units) may answer the
roll call, vote, or occupy seats assigned to senators.
C. Faculty
members visiting the Senate shall seat themselves in the back of the meeting room, behind the seats assigned
to Senate members.
D. Visitors may
not participate in Senate discussions and business except by advance invitation
of the Senate Agenda Committee or the Chair of the Faculty. Such
an invitation will be announced to the Senators prior to the meeting.
E. Each
electoral unit of the University may elect a number of alternate
representatives equal to its allotment of senators, not to exceed the electoral unit’s number of
apportioned senators. If more than one
alternate is elected, they should be elected to two-year terms. The alternate(s) will be elected in the same
manner as faculty senators at the time of regular election of senators, and
will serve for a two-year term.
Alternates
shall be eligible for re-election. The
alternate will represent that electoral
unit at the discretion of any Senator within the electoral unit, and in such a
situation, shall notify the Secretary of the Faculty or