Bylaws: Voting Rights

Effective April 2003

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Voting Procedures for Academic Advancement

The chart below shows which faculty are allowed to vote on specified personnel actions. Merit increase reviews are delegated to the Personnel Committee. The Personnel Committee is an elected committee. The slate consists of all available faculty members willing to serve on the committee. Members are elected from the list by secret ballot and serve two-year terms. The Personnel Committee consists of three Full Professors and two Associate Professors, with the entire committee voting on Associate and Assistant Professor merit reviews, and only the Full Professors voting on Full Professor merit reviews. All actions requiring an ad hoc committee go to the faculty; this includes accelerated merits of two years or more, merits to Step VI, and all promotions. Lecturer appointments go through the Executive Committee. Voting rights are not extended to emeriti.

APPOINTMENTS TO RANK
(SERIES):
VOTING INDIVIDUALS (specified by rank and series):
Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
Associate Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
Assistant Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
Adjunct Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
Adjunct Associate Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
Adjunct Assistant Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
Senior Lecturer (with SOE) Ladder Faculty, plus Senior Lecturers with SOE
Senior Lecturer Ladder Faculty, plus Senior Lecturers with SOE
Lecturer (with SOE) Ladder Faculty, plus senior Lecturers with SOE
Lecturer Executive Committee

PROMOTIONS TO RANK (SERIES): VOTING INDIVIDUALS (specified by rank and series):
Professor Full Professors
Associate Professor Tenured Faculty
Assistant Professor Full and Associate Professors
Adjunct Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
Adjunct Associate Professor Full and Associate Professors
Adjunct Assistant Professor Full, Associate, Assistant Professors

For more detailed information from the UCLA CALL, click http://www.apo.ucla.edu/call/append4.htm.