DEFINITION OF VOTING FACULTY

Statement of Motion

• 1. All tenured and emeritus faculty.
• 2.
•  a. All Full-time Instructors, Senior Instructors, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Professors on regular full-time academic appointment as Officers of Instruction at the University of Oregon.
• b. All Instructors 0.50 FTE or more in their fifth or later years on regular academic appointment as officers of Instruction at the University of Oregon.
• c. The Head of the Department of Military Science on issues directly affecting the Department of Military Science.
• 3. All Senior Research Associates.
• 4. All Librarians in the University will have the same voting rights and privileges as the faculty on regular academic appointment.
• 5. The President, Vice-Presidents, Provost, Vice Provosts, Deans and Associate Deans, as well as Officers of Administration not regularly engaged in full-time teaching, with the rank of Assistant Professor or 9. higher.
• 6. The Athletic Director and all Head Coaches with the rank of Assistant Professor and higher who have full-time appointments within the University.
• 7. The eighteen (18) members of the Student University Affairs Board.
• 8. All faculty members who have the franchise at the time of the adoption of this motion (May 2, 1984) shall retain that franchise until they terminate employment as members of the faculty.
• 9. The following are EXCLUDED from the category of voting members (please see below for a definition of these EXCLUDED categories where it is not obvious), Adjunct, Visiting, or Courtesy appointees, Research Associates, Research Assistants, Instructors who do not qualify under 2.b. above, and Lecturers. Assistant Deans are excluded unless they qualify under another category.
• 10. Faculty members who are voting members of any department or other minor faculty in which they hold current budgeted appointments. This does not prevent departments or other minor faculties from increasing the franchise at the local level (such as Instructors not yet in their fifth year, other students, etc.).

Definitions of Excluded categories where not obvious:

• "Adjunct" is a person who holds a position outside the University (e.g., physicians, architects, social workers, etc.) who are employed to teach on an occasional, part-time basis.
• "Visiting" is a title accorded to faculty members who come to the University to fill a temporary vacancy for a period of one year or less; or in certain exceptional cases to a faculty member who is at the University for a one year trial service while consideration is given to making that person a permanent offer.
•  "Courtesy" appointments include persons given titles of regular academic rank who have appropriate academic credentials, who are on leave from or retired from a comparable institution, and who work as visitors in a University department without compensation; to faculty members of a department who contribute actively to another department of the University which wishes to include such individuals in its departmental listing; to persons with appropriate academic qualifications who contribute without stipend to field work programs away from campus. In all cases, the title awarded is to he consistent with the academic attainments of the individual for whom the courtesy title is sought. (Through historical errors, the word "adjunct" is used in some cases to describe what is defined above as a "courtesy" appointment. Effort is in progress to correct the titles for the individuals involved.)"