NIU’s Faculty Senate will have nominations and elections for its officers today.

Nominations will be taken for the University Council executive president, the senate vice president and secretary and the faculty members of the university committees.

Faculty Senate President J. Carroll Moody said the UC executive president—who also serves as UC executive secretary—and university faculty committees used to be chosen by the UC. Now, the positions will be elected by the Faculty Senate which was born about a year ago.

Moody said nominations already have been received for the nine university committees which need faculty representation. The senate will vote on the members today.

The executive secretary will be nominated by the 30 Faculty Senate members who also sit on the UC. The senate’s nomination will go to the May 1 UC meeting for approval.

Nominees for the jobs of senate vice president and secretary will also be elected by the Faculty Senate.

Nancy Vedral was the senate vice president but stepped down when she accepted the position of acting dean of the College of Continuing Education. Moody said the position was not filled when she left.

Graduate Studies Director Bob Wheeler is the current secretary.

In other business, the senate will hear a report on last week’s Board of Regents meeting from William Monat, who serves on the Joint University Advisory Committee.

The concept of a Faculty Senate first was proposed as a replacement for the Faculty Assembly in the fall of 1987 and spent three years passing through official channels before it actually formed.

Its members must be on regular contract and tenured or on a tenure track.

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