CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Academic Staff Steering Committee
Nominations for Co-Chair, Secretary, and two (2) Member-at-Large positions are now being accepted.
Nomination forms must be returned to the AAUP-AFT office by 5:00 p.m., on Friday, 5/21/21. Completed forms must be e-mailed to the Union Office using office@aaupaft.org (electronic signatures will be accepted).
Nominators and Nominees must be employed as Academic Staff, and be current AAUP-AFT, Local 6075 Members. Please consider nominating yourself or a respected colleague.
Nominees, please include a short bio on who you are, and a statement on why you are running for office. It should take up one-half (1/2) page or be approximately two hundred fifty (250) words in length.
If you have any difficulties completing/submitting the Nomination form, please contact the Union Office for assistance at office@aaupaft.org.
Office Descriptions
Co-Chair
- Serve as an aide to the Chair
- Attend Academic Staff Standing and Steering Committee Meetings
- Preside when the Chair is absent, or called upon by the Chair
- Represent the Chair upon request
- Succeed Chair upon recommendation of the Academic Staff Steering Committee, and appointment by the AAUP-AFT, Local 6075 Executive Board
- Perform any other duties as prescribed by the Academic Staff Standing Committee, so long as these duties are not in contradiction with the by-laws of the AAUP-AFT, Local 6075, WSU Chapter
Chair
- Preside over all meetings
- Prepare agenda for all meetings in consultation with the Steering Committee
- Vote in tie cases
- Spokesperson for the Committee
- Perform any other duties as prescribed by the Academic Staff Standing Committee, so long as these duties are not in contradiction with the by-laws of the AAUP-AFT, Local 6075, WSU Chapter
- Initiate an orderly transition of the outgoing and incoming Academic Staff Steering Committees
- Serve as Ex-Officio member of the WSU AAUP-AFT, Local 6075 Executive Board without vote
- Attend Academic Staff Standing and Steering Committee Meetings
- Record minutes at Academic Staff Standing Committee and Steering Committee Meetings
- Initiate notices to all members of meetings, and conduct all general correspondence
- Perform any other duties as prescribed by the Academic Staff Standing Committee, so long as these duties are not in contradiction with the by-laws of the AAUP-AFT, Local 6075, WSU Chapter
Member-At-Large (2)
- Attend Academic Staff Standing and Steering Committee Meetings
- Perform any other duties as prescribed by the Academic Staff Standing Committee, so long as these duties are not in contradiction with the by-laws of the AAUP-AFT, Local 6075, WSU Chapter
