Faculty Senate elections will continue throughout Wednesday, with various positions needed to be filled.

All voting is completed online now. Faculty members who want to submit their vote should go to the website http://webappsprod.eiu.edu/voting/ and enter their Eastern login and password.

Grant Sterling, the chair of Faculty Senate, said the system is coded so that each faculty member sees only the positions for which they are eligible to vote.

“For example, some positions are only open to faculty members from a specific College, and so faculty members from that College vote on those candidates,” he said.

Online voting began Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. and will end at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.

Sterling said regular elections are held every spring.

“But we almost always have to hold additional elections to fill vacancies during the fall,” he said.

Write in votes are also accepted, but there must be at least 10 per write in in order to gain election.

Candidates running for Faculty Senate are Crystal Duncan-Lane, a family and consumer sciences professor, Stefan Eckert, a music professor, Jemmie Robertson, a music professor, Amy Rosenstein, a special education professor, Sterling and Jeff Stowell, a psychology professor.

The qualifications for the position include Unit A members and chairs in at least their fourth semester of employment. It meets at 2 p.m. every other Tuesday.

For the Academic Program Elimination Review Committee, there is one person running. The only qualification is to be a faculty member by college. The candidate is Jeannie Okrasinski, an education professor.

Another position with the qualification “Faculty by College” is the Admissions Appeal Review Committee.

The two candidates running are Rick Anderson, a mathematics and computer science professor and Linda Ghent, an economics professor.

Debra Reid, a history professor, and Rebecca Throneburg, a communication disorders and sciences professor are candidates for the Council on Academic Affairs.

The council requires Unit A members and chairs in at least their fourth semester of employment, and it meets at 2 p.m. every Thursday.

The Council on Faculty Research has Rosenstein also running.

The Council on Graduate Studies, which requires graduate faculty in their fourth semester of employment by college, has one spot from the College of Arts and Humanities, two spots in the College of Education and Professional Studies and one spot from the College of Sciences. Andrew Cheetham, a music professor, and Edmund Wehrle, a history professor are both from the College of Arts and Humanities. Melissa Jones, a special education professor, and Kiran Padmaraju, an education major are in the running from the College of Education and Professional Studies.

Chris Laingen, a geology-geography professor, is running from the College of Sciences.

The Council on Teacher Education has one spot from the College of Education and Professional Studies in the form of Kathryn Havercroft, a special education professor.

Marshall Lassak, a mathematics and computer science professor, is running from the College of Science.

Jerry Cloward, a technology professor, is also running for the School of Technology.

The Council of University Planning and Budget has one spot with two candidates: Gloria Leitschuh, a counseling and student development professor, and Padmaraju. Steven Daniels, a physics professor, is running for the one spot from the College of Sciences.

Enrollment Management Advisory Committee has one spot from the College of Education and Professional with Dawn Paulson, an education professor and Rosenstein running.

Sanctions and Terminations Hearing Committee has Steve Brantley, a professor of library services, running. Okrasinski and Paulson are running for the one spot for the College of Education and Professional Studies. Nichole Mulvey, a communication disorders and sciences professor, is running for the one spot from the College of Sciences.

The University Personnel Committee has Bailey Young, a history professor is running for the College of Arts and Humanities, and Ghent and Jie Zou, a physics professor are running for the one spot for the College of Sciences.

The ballot also has open spots. One spot is for a faculty member from the College of Sciences for the Academic Program Elimination Review Committee. Two spots are available for the Admissions Appeal Review Program with one spot from the College of Education and Professional Studies and one spot from the Lumpkin College of Business Affairs. One spot from the College of Sciences is available for the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee. One “at-large” position is available for the University Personnel Committee as well as one spot from the College of Education and Professional Studies.

Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].