A. Membership
and Organization of the UCD Faculty is described in Article I.A.2.a.
The Chancellor of UCD shall be the President of the UCD Faculty, and the
Chair of Faculty Assembly shall serve as the Vice President of the UCD
Faculty.
B. Meetings of the UCD Faculty shall be held annually in April. In addition, the President
or Vice President of the UCD faculty may call meetings by a resolution
passed by a two-thirds majority of Faculty Assembly or by a petition signed
by at least ten percent of the members of the UCD Faculty and submitted
to the Chair of Faculty Assembly. Such calls, resolutions, or petitions
shall set forth the specific purpose for the meeting. At least five-working
days’ notice must be given to the UCD faculty of a UCD Faculty meeting.
The Vice President of the UCD Faculty shall preside at meetings of the
UCD Faculty. In the absence of the Vice President, the Vice Chair of Faculty
Assembly shall preside. The Vice President of the UCD Faculty shall ensure
that minutes of meetings of the UCD Faculty are recorded, published, and
preserved.
C. A
Quorum of the UCD Faculty shall be seven percent of the UCD Faculty
at the commencement of the meeting. Proxy voting shall not be permitted.
D. Motions shall be approved by a majority of those present.
E. Functions of the UCD Faculty at its meetings shall include
1. hearing
reports of the Chancellor of UCD, the Chair of Faculty Assembly, and
the committees of Faculty Assembly
2. discussing
issues raised by members of the faculty and administration
3. referring
to Faculty Assembly or the appropriate committee(s) such matters as
it may wish to have studied
4. establishing
special committees or procedures
5. dissolving
special committees or revising procedures
6. referring
to a mail ballot substantive motions or resolutions that require a vote
of the UCD Faculty
F. Procedures affecting the operation of the UCD Faculty may be addressed at any meeting
of the UCD Faculty. The UCD Faculty may act upon substantive motions or
resolutions before it only by deciding whether or not to refer the matter
to a mail ballot of the whole membership of the UCD Faculty as specified
in G below, and this rule may not be waived or suspended. Recommendations,
motions, or resolutions may originate from any member of the UCD Faculty,
the Faculty Assembly, or any of the Assembly committees. The UCD Faculty
may amend the form of the matter before it and make recommendations to
the originator(s) for further disposition.
G. Mail
Ballots, using USPS, campus mail, electronic mail, or recognized
equivalents, on any subject may be authorized by a majority vote at any
UCD Faculty or Faculty Assembly meeting. The text of any motion or resolution
from a UCD Faculty member or the Faculty Assembly requiring action by
the UCD Faculty through a mail ballot shall be distributed to the members
of the UCD Faculty or published at least five working days in advance
of the time of the meeting at which the proposal for the mail ballot will
be considered. A two-thirds majority of those voting shall be necessary
for passage of motions or resolutions, and the vote shall be valid only
if at least twenty percent of the UCD Faculty’s responses to the
mail ballot are received. Responses shall be made to the office of the
Faculty Assembly. The ballots shall be tallied and the results certified
by the Executive Committee of the Faculty Assembly. Mail ballots shall
be distributed only after September 1 and prior to April 15 in any year.
The date upon which the votes shall be tallied shall be provided in the
text of the motion or resolution. Except in extraordinary circumstances,
that date shall be not less than thirty (30) days from the date of the
distribution of the ballots.
H. Initiatives.
Petitions for action of the UCD Faculty by initiative shall be in writing
and shall contain the complete text of the motion on which a vote is sought.
A petition signed by at least fifty members of the UCD Faculty shall be
referred by the Chair of Faculty Assembly to a vote of the full UCD Faculty
by mail ballot as provided in G of this Article. Such
petitions also may be used to initiate amendments to this constitution.
I. Referenda to rescind any action of the Faculty Assembly by referring the matter
to the UCD Faculty shall be in writing and shall contain the complete
text of the motion on which a vote is sought. A petition signed by at
least fifty members of the UCD Faculty shall be referred by the Chair
of Faculty Assembly to a vote of the full UCD Faculty by mail ballot,
as provided in G of this Article.