Voting rights described in this policy exclude all personnel matters but include all other departmental matters, including nomination of department chairs. The department of primary assignment of faculty permanently assigned to more than one department is the department in which they serve more than half-time. Changes in such designations may be requested by the faculty member, but shall not be effective until the semester following that in which the change is approved.
Regular faculty have full permanent voting rights in the department of their primary assignment.
Permanent voting rights are terminated by permanent reassignment to another department, complete retirement, or other termination of employment. Departments, by majority vote of those with departmental voting rights, may give voting rights to regular or temporary faculty serving less than half-time in the department. While students, staff, or other non-faculty may have voting rights on department committees, organizations, and other such groups, they may not be granted departmental voting rights. Faculty retired under the Faculty Early Retirement Program retain departmental voting rights during any semester in which they are on active service in the department. They may also vote in any other semester if they give the department written notice to that effect before the beginning of the semester, so long as they intend to return to active service in the subsequent semester.