Academic Senate Elections Calendar
- February 15 (Monday)
Call for nominations. - February 26 (Friday)
Nominations close. - March 8 (Monday)
Deadline for nominees to respond with a yes or a no, and to submit candidate statement and answers to candidate questions for brochure. Each candidate statement needs to be sent in unformatted text within the body of an email (no attachments, no bold, no underline, use dashes and the space bar instead of automatic bullet points, etc.). Formatted text leads to conversion problems between different operating systems, MAC/PC problems, unrecognizable characters, etc. Also, this information will not be edited for spelling/grammatical errors. - March 10 (Wednesday)
Election brochure with candidate information gets published to the AS website on this date. - March 12 (Friday)
Balloting begins. An email with exact instructions for voting will be sent to all voting members. - March 18 (Thursday)
Voting period ends at noon. More details about how to get ballots to us and the time/place ballots will be counted will be provided on voting instructions.
Questions to the Candidates
For Senator
- Which committees have you served on and when?
- Which leadership roles have you held?
- What do you think are the five most pressing issues facing the Academic Senate today, and how has your work over the past three to five years shown your commitment to these issues?
- What would you do to keep your constituents informed, and what would you do to elicit feedback on important issues from your constituents?
For Coordinating Officer
- Which committees have you served on and when? Which leadership roles have you held?
- What do you think are the five most pressing issues facing the Academic Senate today, and how has your work over the past three to five years shown your commitment to these issues?
- How do you see your role as a senate officer in relationship to the Administration and the faculty you represent?
- What would you do to help ensure that the annual goals of the Academic Senate are best realized?
For Vice President or President-Elect
- What will you do to keep all Academic Senate members updated about important issues happening across campus?
- What leadership roles have you assumed during your MiraCosta College career and which collegial governance accomplishment are you most proud of?
- How does your previous service demonstrate your readiness to assume the presidency, especially with respect to your ability to take a global perspective on the college, to advocate for individuals and subgroups, and to treat others impartially?
- How would you determine which positions should receive reassigned time, and which faculty would receive this reassigned time?
- What would you do to ensure a more inclusive senate; specially what would you do to welcome more faculty of color and women, CTE faculty and newer faculty?
- How would you decide who serves on what committee, and who is chair of that committee?
- What do you think are the five most pressing issues facing the Academic Senate today, and how has your work over the past three to five years shown your commitment to these issues?
- What is your leadership style?
- How do you see your role as a senate officer in relationship to the Administration and the faculty you would represent?
