Participate in shared governance, as a voice for faculty, and be involved in the discussions and decisions that shape our university and guide our mission, while fulfilling a service requirement.

All faculty who have a primary appointment as "faculty," and, are eligible for the Teachers Retirement System, and, are available to attend Senate meetings in person, are eligible to serve as Senators. See nominations webpage for details and for eligibility regarding serving as Chair or Associate Chair. Nominations are being accepted on the Faculty Senate Nominations webpage https://go.uab.edu/SenateNominations now through end of Thursday, March 12th.

Nominations are being taken for Faculty Senate Chair-elect, Associate Chair of the Faculty Senate, and Senators for every school/college/the libraries. Details and contact information are available on the webpage. If you encounter issues with the nomination form, then switch to another internet browser (ex. Chrome or FireFox). Please be checking your junk email folder during the nomination period, as emails regarding your colleagues nominating you or self-nomination will go to your junk folder if you your “junk” setting set higher. You may review the mission of the Faculty Senate at http://www.uab.edu/faculty/senate/about and the positions descriptions at http://www.uab.edu/faculty/senate/documents/position-descriptions.

Benefits of serving as a Faculty Senate member:

• Become more informed: Obtain a deeper and broader understanding of all aspects of UAB activities and mission
• Become more connected: Opportunity to build relationships and network with faculty across all academic units and Administration
• Actively implement shared governance: Contribute to supporting and implementing shared governance in UAB initiatives, activities and mission
• Achieve goals: Work collaboratively to help UAB achieve excellence in teaching, research and community outreach
• Opportunity: Express and discuss faculty's concerns with UAB leadership
• Fulfill a university/unit service requirement

Once nominated, nominees may submit a candidate statement, if desired, to aileenmc@uab.edu before the first day of voting begins. You may contact the Faculty Senate Office at aileenmc@uab.edu to request examples of candidate statements. Faculty will have the opportunity to cast approval-votes online in mid-April. Election results will be announced in late-April. The new Faculty Senate term will begin in September.