SPECIAL RULES OF ORDER

(Created by faculty action, April 8, 2003)

The faculty have adopted the following rules of order as additions or exceptions to the Robert’s Rules of order.

1. In faculty meetings, the presiding officer does not have a duty to notice the absence of a quorum, nor is prohibited from doing so, but is obligated to act upon a quorum call properly made by a member of the faculty meeting who has both voice and vote.
2. Regular monthly faculty meetings shall convene around 3:45 p.m. The chair shall adjourn the meeting at the close of deliberations on the agenda item under discussion at 5:15 p.m., or at 5:30 p.m., if said agenda item has not been completed by that time. The 5:15 rule may be suspended by a 2/3 vote of the faculty assembled, but only if a quorum is present and only if the suspension occurs before 5:15 p.m.
3. In balloting by mail or by secret ballot, ballots that are illegible or improperly completed shall be counted as blanks and not as illegal ballots.
4. In any election with more than two candidates per slot, the candidate(s) with the highest plurality of votes shall be elected.
5. The vote counts in elections are not to be reported to the full faculty when the results of elections are reported and declared. The Faculty Executive Board shall maintain a record of election results, including vote counts, which can be viewed by any member of the faculty with voice and vote in faculty meetings.