Elections
Faculty Assembly Elections Calendar
February 16 (Tuesday): Call for Nominations; nominations must be sent to Karen Smith at ksmith@miracosta.edu Only the FA President needs to be tenured; untenured faculty members may serve as FA Vice President, FA Ombudsperson, or FA Executive Officers.
February 26 (Friday): Nominations close.
March 7 (Monday): Deadline for nominees to respond with a yes or a no, and to submit candidate statement and answers to candidate questions for brochure. Any candidate accepting the nomination who would like their statement and answers to preselected questions posted in the Candidate Brochure must send a general statement to Karen Smith at ksmith@miracosta.edu Each candidate statement needs to be sent in unformatted text within the body of an email (no attachments, no bold, no underline, use dashes and the space bar instead of automatic bullet points, etc.). Formatted text leads to conversion problems between different operating systems, MAC/PC problems, unrecognizable characters, etc. Also, this information will not be edited for spelling/grammatical errors.
March 8 (Tuesday): Election brochure with candidate information gets published to the FA website on this date.
March 9 (Wednesday): Balloting begins. An email with exact instructions for voting will be sent to all voting members.
March 15 (Tuesday): Voting period ends at 4 pm. More details about how to get ballots to us and the time/place ballots will be counted will be provided on voting instructions.
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Questions to the Candidates for Faculty Assembly
FA Executive Committee Members and Ombudsperson
What skills or experiences do you possess that would be a benefit to the Faculty Assembly's main purposes (see FA Constitution, Article I, numbers 1-8--however, there is no need to address each of the 8 purposes)?
What leadership roles have you assumed during your academic and/or professional career?
What do you think are the two or three most pressing issues facing the Faculty Assembly today?
What would you do to keep Faculty Assembly members informed, and what would you do to elicit feedback on important issues from members?
Ombudsperson extra question
What skills or special training do you possess that would allow you to help others to resolve differences?
Questions to each Candidate for Faculty Assembly Vice-President
What skills or experiences do you possess that would be a benefit to the Faculty Assembly's main purposes (see FA Constitution, Article I, numbers 1-8--however, there is no need to address each of the 8 purposes)?
What leadership roles have you assumed during your MiraCosta College career or elsewhere?
What would you do to keep Assembly members informed, and what would you do to elicit feedback on important issues from members?
What do you think are the two or three most pressing issues facing the Faculty Assembly today?
Questions to each Candidate for Faculty Assembly President
What skills or experiences do you possess that would be a benefit to the Faculty Assembly's main purposes (see FA Constitution, Article I, numbers 1-8--however, there is no need to address each of the 8 purposes)?
What will you do to keep all Faculty Assembly members updated about important issues?
What leadership roles have you assumed during your MiraCosta College career and which accomplishments are you most proud of?
How does your previous service demonstrate your readiness to assume the presidency of the FA?
What would you do to ensure the creation of an inclusive Faculty Assembly Council that represents the full diversity of the MiraCosta faculty?
How would you approach future negotiations? What long and short term strategies do you see as key to success?
What do you think are the two or three most pressing issues facing the Faculty Assembly today?
