COC

Committee on Committees (COC)

The COC shall be composed of seven voting faculty members, including the Speaker and Speaker-elect. Four of these members shall be tenured/tenure track with one additional member who shall be from the General Faculty. All five members shall be elected by and from the General Faculty from a slate of nominees prepared by the Senate Executive Committee with no more than two of the five voting faculty members from any one college, the library, or counseling. 

Responsibilities

• Make recommendations on committee structure.
• Nominate candidates for offices of the General Faculty and for elective committees of the General Faculty and the Academic Senate except for positions on the COC.
• Conduct all university-wide elections and ballots. 
• If an elected faculty representative is unable to serve the remainder of his/her term, and it is one semester or less, the COC may appoint a replacement. If there is more than one semester left in the term and it is deemed urgent to secure a replacement quickly, then COC may appoint a replacement for the remainder of the semester and hold an election to finish out the term.
• Conduct ballots on initiation of or referendum of General Faculty actions.
• Conduct recall elections when so instructed by the Speaker (or Speaker-elect in the event of a recall of the Speaker).
• Conduct ballots on amendments to this Constitution.