On Tuesday the Faculty Senate chose six faculty members to forward to the Board of Trustees for consideration to serve on the Presidential Search Advisory Committee.

Faculty Senate Chair Bud Fischer, biological sciences professor, said he was going to submit the names to BOT member Robert Manion, search committee chair, Tuesday after the senate meeting.

The six nominees, all males, were chosen from an all-male pool of eight applicants. Fischer was chosen along with fellow senate members Steve Scher, psychology professor, and Luis Clay Mendez, foreign languages professor.

David Radavich, an English professor, who also serves as president of Eastern’s chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois, the faculty union, was also chosen along with two department chairs.

Alan Baharlou, geology/geography department chair, was chosen along with Bill Addison, psychology department acting chair.

Gary Aylesworth, philosophy department chair and chair of the Council of Chairs, attended Tuesday’s meeting to ask the senate to consider including at least one department chair in the six-member group chosen.

While two department chairs were eventually chosen, the senate did not make a motion to ensure that one of the six chosen was a department chair.

Senate member Anne Zahlan said that while department chairs are “perfectly eligible,” she opposed the principle of allocating a spot for one of the chairs.

“I don’t see that a certain group should have a reserve slot,” she said.

The senate instead held an open vote in which each senate member voted for up to six applicants based on the applicants’ qualifications. Three senate members decided to vote for only five applicants.

Hank Davis, associate accountancy and finance professor, and Mori Toosi, school of technology professor, applied to serve on the committee, but were not selected.

Three of the six faculty members selected are expected to be chosen at Monday’s BOT meeting to serve on the search committee. Since all six are male, the three faculty members chosen to serve on the committee will also be male. The three faculty members that served on the last presidential search committee, which resulted in the hiring of former President Carol Surles, were all female.

In other business, Honors Program Director Herb Lasky visited the senate Tuesday to present a yearly report and the senate discussed possible topics and dates for a fall forum.

Fischer brought up the possibility of the senate hosting a forum in the spring instead of the fall because the Council on Academic Affairs and the Enrollment Management Committee are sponsoring a forum on Oct. 18.

Fischer said that if the senate were to have a fall forum the possible dates are Nov. 6 and Nov. 13.