| President: Larry Faulkner, Ph.D., Occupational
Therapy
President - Elect: Keisha Brooks, Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Secretary: Patty Liddell, Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Bylaws of the Allied Health Faculty Organization
College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Tennessee, Memphis
Preamble
The faculty of the College of Allied Health Sciences of the University
of Tennessee, Memphis considers it advantageous to establish the
means for periodic meetings for the purpose of effective participation
of the faculty in the affairs of the College and to:
- Establish inter-faculty relations and communications.
- Establish dialogue between faculty and administration.
- Establish a more direct route for disseminating information
that becomes available to the Dean's office or about materials
and situations developing in that office or otherwise.
Article I. Members
Membership in the association shall consist of all College of Allied
Health Sciences appointed faculty irrespective of their employment
status (such as UT, SSCC,VA, etc.)
Article II. Officers
Three officers: President, President-elect, and recording secretary,
shall be elected during a regular meeting each year in November
to be effective January 1 of the following year. The term of office
is the calendar year.
It is the president's responsibility to chair and call meetings
at regular intervals and as business may indicate.
It will be the president-elect's responsibility to assume the president's
responsibilities in his/her absence and to serve as president in
the following year. Department chairpersons ma not serve as officers.
Article III. Meetings
The faculty shall meet a least once every three months or more often
as business may dictate. Meetings will be called by the president
upon his/her own initiative or upon recommendations by a faculty
member of the the Dean's office.
Article IV. Special Committee
Ad hoc committees may be appointed by the president as dictated
by future needs.
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Attends College Council meetings as an ex-officio
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Serves as an ex-officio member of the Faculty Senate.
Conducts elections for faculty organizations. |
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a. President
b. President-elect
c. Recording Secretary |
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Conducts election of faculty senate positions |
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a. One department chairperson position - 3 years
b. One member from each department - 3 years
c. At-large members - 3 year terms |
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Allied Health has a total of 8 or 9 positions.
Departmental chairperson's position is nominated by the nomination
committee and the entire body votes for this senator.
Each department nominates and votes for their respective department
senator.
At-large positions are nominated by the nominations committee and
elected by the entire body.
Senators must get 30% of their salary from our College. Department
representatives must be employed in the department they represent.
The usual term for all senate positions is three (3) years. Senators
may succeed themselves once. (Exceptions are made in departments
where there is only one individual eligible to serve.) Because the
senate does not want more than one third turnover in senators, some
positions may be specified in 1 or 2 year terms instead of 3 years
terms.
Elections usually take place in May or June but should be completed
by September so their Faculty Senate has the names of any new senators
for their October meeting.
General Function of the Organization
- Advisory group to the Dean.
- Curriculum discussions.
- Pursues matters of interest to the faculty and Dean.
- Provides educational seminars of interest to allied health faculty.
These Bylaws were last amended in October, 1991.
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