Teaching is not only about research and classroom time.

University councils and committees are also available for faculty to serve on, of which 11 groups will have new members after Tuesday and Wednesday elections.

The elections, coordinated by the Faculty Senate, will select faculty at large and from various academic colleges to councils such as the Council on University Planning and Budget and Council on Faculty Research.

Only tenure or tenure-track faculty and department chairs are able to vote.

In the past, 200 to 300 have made it to the polls, said Doug Brandt, physics professor and chair of the Faculty Senate elections subcommittee.

Brandt predicted a similar turnout this election.

“I encourage all faculty to come and vote and beat my prediction,” he said.

All faculty were nominated, and most committee seats are three-year terms.

“Shared governance is very important as this university,” senate chair Anne Zahlan said. “We have (elections) over two days, so people should have plenty of time to get over there.”

Zahlan is running for the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee and Sanction and Termination Hearing Committee.

The enrollment committee helps determine the size and character of the student population.

“In light of the ever-more limited resources available to higher education in the state, it is imperative that Eastern select those students who can best make use of excellent and reasonably-priced education that the university offers,” she said.

Five members will be selected at large to the senate, and three to the CAA.

Those nominated to senate include: English professor John Allison; assistant political science professor Jeff Ashley; assistant math professor Leo Comerford; associate biology professor Bud Fischer; associate recreation administration professor John Henry Pommier and John Stimac, assistant geology and geography professor.

Those nominated to the CAA include: Julie Dietz, associated health studies department professor; consumer science professor Jean Dilworth; assistant English professor Francine McGregor; associate biological professor Britto Nathan and assistant history professor Debra Reid.

Also contested is one position for the Academic Program Elimination Review Committee and the Council on Faculty Research.

Pommier and assistant physical education professor William Russell were nominated to the review committee.

Jeanne Snyder, assistant family and consumer sciences professor; associate psychology professor Gary Canivez and sociology professor Mahmoud Kashefi were nominated to the Council on Faculty Research.

The election results must be reviewed next Tuesday by the senate before they can be announced to the university community, Brandt said.

Polls will be in the lobby in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union bookstore.