Senate Election Results 2023-2024

Chair-Elect

Preferential Ballot

Linch, Amy T: 41

Marko, Frantisek: 49+19=68* (After redistribution vote tally is 68 – see chart below)

Palma Anda, Julio L: 42+14=56* (After redistribution vote tally is 56 – see chart below)

Secretary

Preferential Ballot

Duffey, Michele Lee: 81

Potosky, Denise: 25

Hughes, Janet: 25

Retired Senators

To be announced.

Faculty Advisory Committee to the President

Preferential Ballot; Person who received the most votes is the member.  Person who received the second most votes is the alternate (one year term). Three-year term ending in 2028.

Baboo, Priya: 1

Barat, Somjit: 0

Bonsall IV, Samuel Burton: 3

Champagne, John Gerard: 8

Chen, Guoli: 0

Davis, Kenneth James: 4

Eckhardt, Caroline (Carey): 9

Eleftherakis, Georgios: 3

Gresh, Stephanie: 1

Grinar, Michele: 0

High, Mary: 0

Honavar, Vasant Gajanan: 1

Iceland, John David: 3

Jenkins Jr., Edward Rowland: 0

Kaplan, Kyle John: 0

Kumara, Soundar: 1

Lamb, Jenny: 0

Lightner, Christina Marie: 0

Majeske, Amber: 0

Manning, Keefe B: 1

Meloy, Meg: 0

Ozment, Judith: 9

Paulson, Karen: 0

Pierce, Mari B: 1

Powless, Seth: 0

Prabhu, Vittaldas V: 5

Pyeatt, Nicholas Lafayette: 2

Quinn, Mae: 0

Sanders, Shaakirrah Rafeea: 1

Sharma, Amit: 22+13=35** (After redistribution vote tally is 35 – see chart below)

Sillner, Andrea Yevchak: 2

Smith, Mary Ann V: 0

Snyder, Stephen James: 8

Stephens, Mark: 4

Strickland, Martha J: 32+29=61** (After redistribution vote tally is 61 – see chart below)

Taylor, Ann Hamilton: 7+14=21** (After redistribution vote tally is 21 – see chart below)

Topper, Leana M: 3

Ural, Serdar H: 1

Veerabhadrappa, Praveen: 0

Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee

Plurality Ballot: To fulfill the requirements of the Standing Rules, one member elected was tenure-line faculty from a location other than University Park (LotUP). Elected two members and two alternates who will serve two-year terms (Terms end 2026).

To be announced.

Faculty Rights and Responsibilities – Deans and Chancellors

Plurality Ballot. One member and one alternate selected to fill a two-year term (Term end 2025)

To be announced.

University Promotion and Tenure Review Committee

Plurality Ballot: Senators voted for four members (terms expiring in 2025)

To be announced.

Standing Joint Committee on Tenure

Plurality Ballot: Senators voted for one member. The one receiving the most votes will serve as the member; the one receiving the second most votes will be the alternates through 2027.

Barat, Somjit: 6
Cimbala, Stephen: 16
Doncheski, Michael Andrew: 11
Jankoski, Jo Ann: 35***
King, Gary: 36
Morcol, Goktug: 3
Pai, Dinesh Ramdas: 2
Rudrabhatla, Sairam V: 6
Sun, Liyong: 9
Veerabhadrappa, Praveen: 11

 

HARE System Explained

The Faculty Senate utilizes the HARE system for voting processes. Where applicable, an asterisk has been placed next to the vote tallies.

For the election for Senate Secretary, no redistribution of votes was necessary because Michele Duffey received the majority of votes as first choice on the preferential ballot.

For the election on Senate Chair-Elect, votes were redistributed from the third votes for top choice, and are as follows:

NameVotesRedistributeTOTAL
Linch, Amy T41N/A41
Marko, Frantisek491968
Palma Anda, Julio L421456

For the election for Faculty Advisory Committee to the President, nine levels of redistribution were required for one candidate to have the majority vote of at least 59. (Some ballots were exhausted before the final redistribution and are not included in the final vote count.)

NameVotesRedistributed VotesTOTAL
Sharma, Amit221335
Strickland, Martha J322961
Taylor, Ann Hamilton71421

* Votes in the Senate Chair-Elect election, first choice votes for Amy Linch were re-distributed between Frantisek Marko and Julio Palma, with Frantisek Marko receiving 68 votes.

**Votes in the Faculty Advisory Committee to the President Election for 21 candidates were re-distributed between Amit Sharma, Martha Strickland, and Ann Taylor, with Martha Strickland receiving majority 32 + 29 redistributions, totaling 61 votes, which makes her the Committee Member. Amit Sharma received 22 first choice votes+ 13 redistributed votes, totaling 35, making him the Alternate Member of the Committee.

***The candidate with the second most votes, Jo Ann Jankoski, will be the alternate for the Standing Joint Committee on Tenure through 2027.