Academic Senate Elections Blog

Replacement Ballots & Instructions

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VOTING DEADLINE
5 pm, Monday, March 5, 2007

Ballots may be submitted via USPO mail or interoffice mail.
• All Ballots sent by USPO mail must be postmarked on or before the deadline.
• All Ballots that are submitted by campus inter-office mail must be received on or before the deadline.

REPLACEMENT BALLOTS
Download Ballots here; or, pick up from the Senate Office at ISC Bldg, Room 109.

Contact the Senate Assistant, Brittany Barber, 718-636-3625.

BALLOTING INSTRUCTIONS USING YOUR OWN TWO ENVELOPES
1. Mark your selection on your Ballot by putting an X in the box to the left of the name you vote for. Do not write on, or mark Ballot in any other way.
2. Insert your Ballot in a blank envelope. Seal envelope. Do not write on, or mark this envelope in any other way.
3. Insert the blank envelope in another envelope; seal second envelope and address the front of the outer envelope as follows :
Academic Senate
Mail Room, Steuben 1
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
4. On the back of this addressed, sealed envelope:
• SIGN YOUR NAME ACROSS THE FLAP
• WRITE YOUR NAME LEGIBLY UNDER YOUR SIGNATURE
Only paper ballots conforming to the double, sealed envelope secret balloting procedures will be accepted.

SECRET BALLOT PROCEDURE
The secret ballot procedure uses two sealed envelopes to ensure that votes are confidential and legitimate.

• Ballots are sealed in the unmarked envelopes.
• The unmarked envelopes are sent in the return envelopes, which are marked to assure that only eligible voters vote and vote only once. Voters’ printed names on the back of the sealed, return envelopes are verified against the Senate’s official voter database.
• When the return envelopes are received, they are grouped by academic voting categories. The inner, unmarked envelopes are opened separately to preserve the secrecy of the votes. Ballots that do not belong to the academic voting category within which they are grouped, are discarded.

In this way, the procedure assures that votes are legitimate (from an eligible voter); properly applied to the voter’s academic category; cast only once; and secret; the returned ballot cannot be associated with a specific voter.

About the Elections Blog

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Welcome to the interactive Senate Candidates' blog, sponsored by the Academic Senate and built with input from Senator candidates.

PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG
This blog is designed to connect Senate constituents to their representative candidates and functions as follows:

it provides Senate nominee profiles/statements of candidacy
it enables posting of comments by constituents and candidates

POSTING RESPONSIBILITIES
TO POST, click on the word COMMENTS and type in the pop-up window

Original Candidate's statements will be posted by the Senate
In cases where candidates do not provide profiles, blank blogs
will be provided, with fully-enabled COMMENTS feature
Only _______ may post.
Senate candidates are encouraged to participate in collegial
campaigning, including adding to their original statements
and commenting on other candidates' blogs.

CANDIDATES' PARTICIPATION
The extent to which a candidate participates and is available to his/her constituents, would be at the individual's discretion. This includes:

Candidate's submission of profiles/statements
Candidate's participation on the blog
Candidate's provision of e-mail address

SUPPLEMENTARY CAMPAIGN MATERIAL (such as posters and statement flyers) is provided at the initiative and expense of each candidate, who is solely responsible for its content.

DISCLAIMER: The substance of candidates' statements on this blog and in supplementary campaign material is provided by the respective candidates, who are solely responsible for its content, and do not necessarily reflect the endorsement by the Academic Senate or Pratt Institute.

Overview: Candidates & Eligible Voters

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Eligible voters include all Chairs, Assistant Chairs and persons that teach (staff & admimistrators included) in one or more of the four schools or the Library at Pratt Institute.

SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN
FULL-TIME FACULTY 7 candidates for 5 seats
1. Vangheli Lupu, Fashion Design
2. Deborah Meehan, Media Arts
3. Charles Parker, AOS Program
4. William Sayler, Foundation
5. Sarah VanOuwerkerk, Media Arts
6. Patrick Webb, Foundation
7. Douglas Wirls, Foundation
80 VOTERS: 61A&D FT faculty, 19 UG/Grad Chairs & Asst Chairs

PART-TIME FACULTY 10 candidates for 4 seats
1. Mary Edwards, History of Art
2. Cheryl Gross, Undergraduate Communications Design
3. George Hirose, Media Arts
4. Tom LaPadula, Undergraduate Communications Design
5. Jenny Lee, Fine Arts
6. Eric O'Toole, Graduate Communications Design
7. Jack Schecterson, AOS Program
8. Kimberly Sloane, Foundation
9. Robin Starbuck, AOS Program
10. Sean Sullivan, Digital Arts
566 VOTERS: 547 A&D PT faculty (of which, 19 are staff/admin),
19 UG/Grad Chairs & Asst Chairs

CHAIRS 2 candidates for 1 Grad seat, 2 candidates for 1 UGrad seat
1. Donald Ariev; Chair, Graduate Communications Design
2. Anita Cooney, Chair, UG and Grad Interior Design
3. Kathleen Creighton, Chair, Undergraduate Communications Design
4. Mark O'Grady; Chair, Associates Degree Program
627 VOTERS: 61 A&D FT faculty, 547 PT faculty (of which, 19 are staff/admin), 19 UG/Grad Chairs & Asst Chairs

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FULL-TIME FACULTY 1 candidate for 1 seat
1. Theoharis David, UG Architecture
2. Ayse Yonder, Grad Planning
23 VOTERS:18 ARCH FT faculty, 5 UG/Grad Chairs & Asst Chairs

PART-TIME FACULTY 3 candidates for 2 seats
1. Jeffrey Hogrefe, Undergraduate Architecture
2. Nicholas Koutsomitis, Undergraduate Architecture
3. Marc Schaut, Undergraduate Architecture
153 VOTERS:148 ARCH PT faculty (of which, 3 are staff/admin),
5 UG/Grad Chairs & Asst Chairs

CHAIRS 2 candidates for 1 Grad seat; 2 candidates for 1 UGrad seat
1. Caleb Crawford; Asst Chair, Undergraduate Architecture
2. Evan Douglis; Asst Chair, Undergraduate Architecture
3. Anna Laura Wolf-Powers; Chair, Grad Planning
4. William MacDonald; Chair, Graduate Architecture
171 VOTERS: 18 ARCH FT faculty, 148 PT faculty (of which, 3 are staff/admin), 5 UG/Grad Chairs & Asst Chairs

SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES
FULL-TIME FACULTY 4 candidates for 2 seats
1. Jonathan Beller, English & Humanities
2. Damon Chaky, Mathematics & Science
3. Lisabeth During, Social Science & Cultural Studies
4. Gerson Sparer, Mathematics & Science
30 VOTERS: 30 SLAS FT faculty, 2 Chairs & Asst Chairs

PART-TIME FACULTY 2 candidates for 1 seat
1. Adele Rossetti-Morosini, Mathematics & Science
2. Kumru Toktamis, Social Science & Cultural Studies
123 VOTERS: 121 SLAS PT faculty (of which, 14 are staff), 2 Chairs & Asst Chairs

CHAIRS 2 candidates for 1 seat
1. Sameetah Agha, Social Science & Cultural Studies
2. Carole Sirovich, Mathematics & Science
153 VOTERS: 30 SLAS FT faculty, 121 SLAS PT faculty
(of which, 14 are staff), 2 Chairs & Asst Chairs

SCHOOL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
FULL-TIME FACULTY 1 candidate for 1 seat
1. David Walczyk
7 VOTERS: 7 SILS FT faculty

PART-TIME FACULTY 1 candidate for 1 seat
1. Ellen Loughran
25 VOTERS: 25 SILS PT faculty

LIBRARY
FULL-TIME FACULTY 2 candidates for 1 seat
1. Stephen Klein
2. Tony White
7 VOTERS: 7 Library FT faculty

Nominations & Elections Committee

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Committee Composition
The Nominations & Elections Committee (N+E) is composed of the Senate Executive Committee.

Committee Charge
The N+E committee is charged with developing and implementing fair and effective nominations & elections procedures.

Specific Duties
It conducts nominations & elections for Senators every three years, and, in the interim, oversees when necessary, their replacement by alternates. It also monitors the election of Senate officers. The N+E committee is empowered to appoint Faculty/Chair Representatives to the various standing committees of the Senate, to the Board of Trustees committees, as well as all-institute committees. It also forms ad hoc faculty/chair focus groups.

Senate Executive Committee
Jenny Lee, President, 718.636.3625
Tony White, Vice-president, 718.636.3531
Sean Sullivan, Secretary, 718.636.3625

Office of the Academic Senate
ISC Suite 109
Tel: 718.636.3625

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Contact Help

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Assistant to the Senate
ISC 109
718-636-3625

Brittany Ann Barber, BFA 2008, Fashion Design; Assistant to the Senate

Originally from Southern California, I moved to New York in search of something more than sunny days. Wearing uniforms my whole life in a conservative Catholic environment brought me to daydream of clothes that enhanced identity and portrayed a lust for life. My goal is to be an entrepreneur in the industry and one year upon graduation, start a company specializing in swimwear and lingerie.

I was appointed Assistant to the Senate in Fall 2006. Working on the Senate has been an exceptional experience of juggling organization, problem solving, and interpersonal situations. The Academic Senate is a great gift to the institution and I am grateful to be involved in such an influential part of Pratt.

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -Oscar Wilde