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Apportionment

Each one of the campus constituencies are apportioned a number of senate seats based on the size of the constituency as follows:

Faculty: Faculty Senators are apportioned seats based on the number of faculty within each college.

• Apportionment of Faculty Senators by College

Staff: The Staff Constituency is divided into the following categories: Executive, Administrative and Managerial Staff(Exempt), Professional Staff(Exempt), Secretarial and Clerical Staff, Technical and Para-Professional Staff, Skilled Crafts and Service and Maintenance. Each category shall elect one Senator from among its ranks for each 200 staff members or major fraction thereof.

• Apportionment of Staff Senators by Category

Undergraduate Students: Undergraduate Senators are apportioned seats based on the number of undergraduates within each college. Regardless of total vote count, no College may have more senators than the number apportioned.

• Apportionment of Undergraduate Students by College

Graduate Students: 10 seats are apportioned to graduate student senators at an at-large basis with no more than two senators from the same college regardless of total vote count.

Single Constituencies: include Teaching Faculty (part-time & full-time), Research Faculty, Part-Time Undergraduates, Contingent Staff and Emeritus Faculty

• Apportionment of Single Constituencies

Voting Ex-Officios include all academic and administrative Deans.

Non-Voting Ex-Officios include the following administrators: the President, the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Vice-Presidents, the University ombuds officers, the Directors of Centers, Institutes, Academic Programs and Undergraduate Admissions, the Chairs of Academic Departments, the Executive Secretary and Director of the Senate, the President of the Student Government Association, the President of the Graduate Student Government and the Chief Executive Officer of any institution-wide constituency.