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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY /

MEMORANDUM ?

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To: ?

Senate ?

From:

Aliso/ Watt

Secretar/SCAR

Subject: ?

Voting Eligibility

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Date:

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ay 19, 1998

LIMITED TERM FACULTY

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NOTICE OF MOTION

The Rules of Senate require a notice of motion when

a reco l thmendation to amend the

Rules of

Senate comes forward. This memorandum constitutes th9'Notice of Motion, and this motion will

come forward for

consideration at the next meeting of Senate.

The definition of "faculty member" in the University

Act determines the eligibility of faculty

members to participate in the elections to Senate and the Board of Governors. This definition

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d on a full-time basis

by a university who has

, lecturer, assistant professor, associate

ion designated by the senate."

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"faculty member" means a person

served for 4 months or longer as an

professor, professor, or in an equiva

Limited Term Faculty1

Limited Term Faculty Policy A 12.05

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2.3.2

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A

limited

tel

ity,but'

member holding an appointment of longer than a year may ?

participate in comrk and may stand for election and vote in all University

elections in whichulty members participate with the exception of Departmental

Tenure Committe

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University Tenure Committee.

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2.3.3 ?

A

limited te

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member holding an appointment

of a year or less may

participate in Dep, Faculty or University committee work

at the initiative of the

appropriate authçay not vote.

From time to time for vtious reasons, academic units make consecutive appointments of limited

term faculty. The endesult is

that a person may be employed as a limited term faculty member

for up to

5

consecutivA years, without ever being granted voting rights in elections.

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"The voting rights as outlined in Section 2.3.2 of Policy A 12.05 and

in the Rules of Senate be extended to limited term faculty holding

contiguous appointments of longer than a year."

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This includes others designated by Senate as in an equivalent position.