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Nominating Committee

Membership
Terms of Reference
Reports to Senate

Membership: 2012-2013

(3-year terms, term expiring 30 June of year in brackets)

Name and Term Expiry	Position / Constituency
Anthony (Tony) Secco (Chair) [e-o]	Vice-President Fredericton (Academic)
Sarah DeVarenne (Secretary, non-voting) [e-o]	Senate Secretary
Gary Waite (Senate)	Arts
TBA (Senator)	Business Administration
Ali Ghorbani (Senator)	Computer Science
Ann Sherman (Senator)	Education
David Coleman (Senator)	Engineering
Don Floyd (Senator)	Forestry
Cynthia Stacey (Senator)	Kinesiology
John Williamson (Senator)	Law
Robert Austin (Senator)	Nursing
Ted Needham (Senator)	Renaissance College
David MaGee (Senator)	Science
Steve Sloan (Senator)	Library
David Hinton (2015) (Senator)	Other Senator
Mostafa Shaker (2013) (Senator)	Undergraduate Student Senator
Ben Whitney (2013) (Senator)	Alternate Undergraduate Student Senator
Kate Ireland (2013) (Senator)	GSA Student Senator
Marc- Andre Pelletier (2013) (Senator)	ALPS Student Senator

(a) Terms of Reference

(As revised by F. Senate September 2001, February 2004, September 2004, and May 2009)

The committee will

review the membership of Senate committees and Senate representatives on other committees each Spring, and at other times as necessary, and make nominations to Senate for replacements or additions;
make nominations to search committees and to other committees as directed by Senate;
collect, review and, if necessary, proper revisions in the terms of reference and structure of Senate committees;
draft guideline and instructions for Senate committees, including the form of different types of reports (e.g. reports which recommend action should contain the necessary recommendations in a form which will be appropriate for Senate debate);
maintain a general supervision over Senate committees to ensure that their reports are available to the Senate when needed;
recommend by-laws for Senate, review the by-laws from time to time, and recommend any necessary changes.

(b) Membership (18)

Ex-Officio
- Vice-President Fredericton (Academic) - Chair
- Secretary, F. Senate - Secretary (non-voting)
11 Senators: 1 from each Faculty and Renaissance College Elected by the Senators from each Faculty and Renaissance College
3 Student Senators: 1 from each of the Board-recognized organizations on the Fredericton campus, presently the Student Union, Graduate Student Association and Adult Learners and Part-Time Students (ALPS) elected by the Student Senators with the full-time undergraduate representative elected by te full-time undergraduate Senators and an alternate Student Senator from the Student Union elected by the full-time U/G Senators
1 Librarian Senator: Elected by the Librarian Senators
1 "Other" Senator: (i.e. non-faculty/ librarian/ student) Elected by the "Other" Senators

(c) Chair

Vice-President Fredericton (Academic)

(d) E-mail Balloting

E-mail balloting may be conducted on matters that have already been discussed and given a general indication of assent by the Committee or for certain routine items of business which require approval for recommendation to Senate at its next meeting. The Secretary, in consultation with the Chair, shall identify items of business which could be considered by e-mail ballot. The Secretary (or designate) shall contact the members of the Committee by e-mail to gain consent to vote on the matter(s) in question by e-mail. Should any member of the Committee feel the matter(s) require the Committee to meet, the Secretary shall call a meeting of the Committee. Members who do not respond to the request within three days will be assumed to have given consent to the e-mail ballot. If the members agree to an e-mail ballot, the Secretary (or designate) shall forward an e-mail ballot to each voting member of the Committee. Full documentation, if not already available to Committee members, shall be circulated with the ballot.

The ballot shall contain three options: FOR/ AGAINST/ ABSTAIN

For a motion to be approved on an e-mail ballot, a majority of the members eligible to vote must vote FOR the motion. In determining the number required for a majority, those voting ABSTAIN are excluded from the total eligible to vote.