Elections: School and College Representatives
Guidelines for Elections
Under the Constitution of the Faculty Assembly/Faculty Council, Faculty Council representatives serve a term of two years, and may serve no more than two consecutive terms. However, representatives can be elected as alternates, and alternates can be elected as representatives.
Your elected representatives and alternates must be current members of the Faculty Assembly. Candidates must be able to attend Faculty Council meetings regularly, usually one Tuesday afternoon per month, starting in September. In addition, Faculty Council representatives sit on the University Council, which also meets once per month on a Tuesday, starting in September. Faculty in modified or unmodified professorial ranks, or senior or master lecturers may sit on University Council.
Access the Governing Documents of the Faculty Council.
Access the Membership list of current representatives and alternates.
What our office can do to help
- Provide the list of Faculty Assembly members of your school/college.
- Design and run an online poll for your election in Qualtrics. All messages will come from the Faculty Council address: fafc@bu.edu.
What we need from you
A Faculty Council member needs to be the “point person” to handle the election. You are not required to run your school or college election through our office, but the election must be completed by June 1, 2022. After elections, notify the Faculty Council Director of the results.
If you want assistance from the Faculty Council office, your point person needs to do the following:
- Contact the Faculty Council Director to sketch out a time line for the election.
- Send a statement to solicit nominations from colleagues to stand for election to the Faculty Assembly members of your school or college. If the mailing list is large enough to require distribution via broadcast email, the Director will assist you.
- Collect the names of nominees and send them to the Director.
- Review the design of the Qualtrics poll and approve it for distribution.
The Director will contact the nominees and solicit a written statement from them. She will work with you to design a Qualtrics poll. When you approve the design of the poll, she will email the statements to the Faculty Assembly members of your school or college, and a link to the online poll will be included in the email.
When the poll closes, she will email the results to you and your colleagues.
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.