The purpose of PEAC is to encourage, facilitate and contribute to collegiality among the professional staff and administration at the University of Maine. Members will be apportioned to each of the constituent units which comprise PEAC in proportion to the number of professional employees in each unit as of April 1 of each year. In order to ensure sufficient PEAC membership in future years, the Council may, on a temporary basis, increase elected PEAC members beyond the fifteen as specified in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. Prior to each annual election, PEAC shall determine the number of members that shall be apportioned to each unit and shall inform the chief administrative officer of each unit if an election is necessary.
All elections are to use secret ballots.
PEAC shall be informed of the results of balloting prior to July 1. Be it further specified that no member may serve consecutive terms. The PEAC executive committee shall be granted the authority to appoint members of the University of Maine professional staff to fill unexpired terms of PEAC board members. The President and President-Elect shall be elected for the following academic year during the final meeting of the previous academic year, normally at the June meeting. The Secretary-Treasurer's position may be held by any member.