Who votes on personnel actions within a department?
UCD Academic Senate Bylaw 55 defines the rights of Senate faculty to vote on personnel actions of their departmental Senate: Voting is confidential, and all Senate faculty at or above the rank of the candidate have the right to vote on an action. The bylaw also allows departments to extend the vote to Senate faculty below rank, as well as emeritae/i, by following the process described in Bylaw 55. If the vote is extended, the new voting procedures must be sent to the Senate office for evaluation by CAP-OC. Thus, in some departments all Senate faculty can vote on all Senate candidates. Although departments may consult with non-Senate faculty on Senate faculty personnel actions, non-Senate faculty may not vote on their Senate colleagues.
