Faculty members from UM-Dearborn are now eligible to run for one of four available seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs after Vice Chair J. Caitlin Finlayson announced she will step down April 30, a year before her term was set to expire.
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Finlayson, a professor of English literature at UM-Dearborn, said she is leaving the nine-member executive arm of the University of Michigan’s central faculty governance system to pursue an upcoming sabbatical/research leave.
The Senate Assembly will elect SACUA members March 21. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Feb. 14 to the Faculty Senate Office at facultysenateoffice@umich.edu.
Members of the Faculty Senate who have served on Senate Assembly or on a Senate Assembly committee are eligible to serve on SACUA.
Three other members are leaving SACUA because their terms expire April 30: Sara Ahbel-Rappe, professor of Greek and Latin in LSA, Elena Gallo, associate professor of astronomy in LSA, and Donald Freeman, professor of education in the School of Education.
Regular SACUA terms last three years. The person who replaces Finlayson will serve only the remaining one year of her term.
Due to limitations on the number of seats each school or college may hold on SACUA, there are currently no new available seats for faculty with primary appointments in the College of Engineering or the School of Information. Finlayson’s early departure means UM-Dearborn faculty members may run in the upcoming election.
Besides SACUA, central faculty governance includes the Senate Assembly, which consists of 74 elected faculty members from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses, and the Faculty Senate, made up of all professorial faculty, librarians, full-time research faculty, executive officers and deans.
SACUA advises and consults with the president of the university on matters of university policy and serves as an instrument for effecting the actions of the Faculty Senate and Senate Assembly.
