Bylaws of the Faculty Association at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Article I. Name
Article II. Purpose and Functions
Article III. Membership
Article IV. Relation to the Santa Barbara Division
Article V. Executive Board and Officers
Article VI. Duties of the Executive Board and its officers
Article VII. Staff of the Association
Article VIII. Dues and Assessments
Article IX. Meetings.
Article X. Voting and Mail Ballots.
Article XI. Amendment of these Bylaws.
Article XII. Effective Date

Article I. Name.The name of this organization, referred to as “Association” in these By-laws, is the Faculty Association at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Article II. Purposes and Functions
Section 1. The Association shall have as its general purposes:
(a) To preserve and heightened the professional and scholarly values held by the faculty.
(b) To protect and strengthen the privileges and responsibilities traditionally reserved to the faculty for maintaining and improving academic quality on campus,
(c) To support effect faculty participation in the governance of the University, and
(d) To maintain and improve the economic status and general welfare of the faculty.

Section 2. The Association shall have as its principal functions:
(a) To inform, consult with, and represent faculty interests to all agencies whose decisions affect the faculty, and to gather and disseminate to the faculty information on all relevant issues before such agencies. These agencies include the legislative and executive branches of government and administrative agencies of the State of California, the Public Employment Relations Board, the California Post Secondary Education Commission, the Board of Regents, and when appropriate, the University-wide and campus administrations.
(b) To encourage the development of, maintain contact with, coordinate its activities with, and form liaisons with parallel or similar organizations on other campuses of the University of California.
(c) To prepare for the eventuality of collective bargaining by continually informing itself and the faulty on all relevant issues. It will monitor and attempt to influence any legislation that might be regarded as affecting collective bargaining by University faculty, so as to protect and further faculty interests such as the right to self-determination. With authorization of collective bargaining it may, upon approval of the membership, seek to become the collective bargaining agent for the faculty. [Back to Top]


Article III. Membership.
Section 1. Membership in the Association is open to all members of the Academic Senate, Santa Barbara Division. Members who are administrative officers above the rank of chair of a department may not be members of the Executive Committee.
Section 2. Members in good standing shall be extended to all eligible faculty members who pay the initiation fee (cf. Art. VIII. Sec. 1), who either sign a payroll deduction form (Employee Organization Payroll Deduction Authorization U1642 (R/10/77) for payment of monthly dues or otherwise keep current their payment of such dues on an annual or semi-annual basis (cf. Art. VIII. Secs. 2 and 3), and who are current in the payment of any special assessments approved by the Association (cf. Art. VIII, Sec. 5).
Section 3. The criteria for membership may be changed on recommendation of the Executive Board if affirmed in a mail ballot by more than 50 per cent of the membership in good standing as one month before the date the ballot votes are due or, in case of less than 75 percent of this membership cast valid ballots, by two-thirds of those casting valid ballots. The Executive Board shall make its views on the recommended change of membership criteria know to the membership at the time the ballots are distributed. [Back to Top]

Article IV. Relation to the Santa Barbara Division.
The Association supports the principles of governance expressed in the present delegation of authority by the Board of Regents to the Academic Senate. Although recognizing and supporting the Senate as the governing body of the faculty, the Association shall carry out its functions independently of the activities of the Santa Barbara Division and its committees and shall not make use of the resources or facilities of the Division. [Back to Top]

Article V. Executive Board and Officers.
Section 1. The Association shall have an Executive Board consisting of seven members elected by the members of the Association.

Section 2. The officers of the Association shall be a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman], a Secretary, and a Treasurer. The officers shall be selected by the Executive Board from its own members following each election of Board members, and shall serve until successors are selected. Officers once selected may be removed by a vote of four members of the Board at a meeting called for that purpose.
Section 3. The term of Board members shall be two years, beginning July 1 and ending June 30. Initially, however, in November 1979 four Board members will be elected to serve until June 30, 1980. Thereafter, Board positions shall be filled as their terms expire, by an annual election.

Section 4. Vacancies on the Executive Board or among its officers shall be filled by action of the Executive Board. The term of an appointment to the Board shall expire on the June 30 following the next Board election after the date of the appointment and the remaining year, if any, of the two-year term of the position shall be filled by election at the next Board election.

Section 5. The annual elections for the Executive Board shall be conducted in May by mail ballot of the members in good standing as of April 1 of that year. Ballots shall be mailed no later than May 7, shall be returned within two weeks of the date of mailing to be considered valid, and shall be counted and the results announced within one week of the final date of return.

Section 6. The Executive Board shall arrange for the annual election of members to the Board in the following manner:
(a) By April 1 the Board shall appoint a Nominating Committee consisting of three Association members in good standing as of the date of appointment. No Board member shall be a member of the Nominating Committee.
(b) By April 10 the Nominating Committee shall present to the Board proposed candidates for the Board positions with terms expiring June 30 of that year (including Board positions, filled by appointees which have one more year to run). For each type of position (two-year regular and one-year replacement), the number of candidates proposed shall not be more than twice the number of positions to be filled. Any member in good standing eligible for Board membership may be proposed by the Nominating Committee.
(c) By April 15 the Board shall circulate to the general membership of the Association:
(i) the names of the persons nominated by the Nominating Committee, and
(ii) instructions concerning the nomination of further candidates for the expiring board positions. Any member in good standing not nominated by the Nominating committee may become a candidate upon presentation to the Executive Board by May 1 of a petition signed by ten members of the Association in good standing.
(d) The names of all candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee and petition shall be placed on the ballot with a designation of the method by which each was nominated.
(e) The Executive Board shall appoint an Election Committee consisting of three Association members in good standing as of the date of appointment. No candidate for the Board shall be a member of the Election Committee.
(f) The Executive Board shall distribute to the membership mail ballots listing the candidates for the Board positions alphabetically and grouped according to whether they are candidates for the normally expiring two-year terms or for the remaining year of positions previously filled by appointment (cf. Sec. 4). The ballot shall instruct the members to vote for only as many candidates as there are positions to be filled and to return the completed ballot to the Secretary by the date determined by Section 5 above. Ballots shall be so designed as to enable votes to be cast secretly.
(g) The Secretary shall assemble the ballots as they are returned and deliver them, unopened, to the Election Committee promptly after the close of balloting.
(h) The Election Committee shall verify that each ballot to be counted has been submitted by a member in good standing. The Election Committee shall then open the ballots, count the valid ballots, and communicate the results to the Executive Board.
(i) The Executive Board shall declare elected to the Board the candidates necessary to fill all vacant positions having the highest vote counts. Tie votes for the last positions to be filled shall be broken by lottery in which the names of the tied candidates are placed in a closed box and the necessary number of names is drawn out by the Chairman. [Back to Top]

Article VI. Duties of the Executive Board and its officers
Section 1. The Executive Board shall meet at the discretion of the Chairman or at the request of three members of the Board. Four members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for conducting business. The Board shall keep itself and the Association informed on all matters that may concern the Association’s purposes and functions as stated in Article II and may create, when appropriate, committees to assist in these duties; it shall act as the governing body of the Association between Association meetings; it shall direct the recruitment of new members.

Section 2. The duties of the officers are as follows:
(a) The Chairman shall preside over meetings of the Association and of the Executive Board, and shall issue the call for such meetings, and shall supervise the administration of the Association’s programs.
(b) The Vice-Chairman shall assist the Chairman in the supervision of the general program of the Association and shall act in the Chairman’s stead at all Association and Executive Board meetings which the Chairman is unable to attend. The Vice Chairman shall serve as Director of Membership Recruitment.
(c) The Secretary shall keep records of the Association, including the minutes of all regular and special meetings of the Association and all meetings of the Executive Board, shall conduct the ordinary correspondence of the Association, and shall issue notice of the call to regular and special meetings of the Association when requested to do so by the Chairman.
(d) The Treasurer shall serve as the custodian of Association funds and shall keep funds in a suitable depository, shall keep the Association’s financial statement up to date at all times and make it available to the Association upon request, shall maintain and keep a current list of the membership in good standing and make it available at any meeting of the Association when called for, shall disburse funds of the Association as authorized by the Executive Board, and shall receive the payment of initiation fees and membership dues and handle the processing of payroll deduction forms.

Section 3. Members of the Executive Board shall perform such other functions as the Board may determine. The Association or the Board may establish such committees as circumstances require.

Article VII. Staff of the Association
The Executive Board shall employ such staff as is necessary for the efficient functioning of the Association. The staff will operate under the direction of the Board. [Back to Top]

Article VIII. Dues and Assessments
Section 1. Each Association member shall pay an initiation fee of $10.00 upon joining and shall pay monthly dues commencing with the first day of the month of membership initiation. New members who wish to pay their month dues by payroll deduction may need to make special payment of their first month’s dues in case payroll deduction cannot be started at the first month. Members are exempt from payment of monthly dues during periods in which they are on leave without pay. In extraordinary cases where special conditions warrant that it would be equitable and justified, the Executive Board may temporarily modify of excuse the monthly dues payment of an individual member of the Association when requested to do so by any member of the Association in good standing.
Section 2. On a twelve-month basis, the monthly dues for members on full-time appointment shall be $5.00 for Assistant Professors and Instructors, $7.50 for Association Professors, and $10.00 for Professors. Members who also belong to the American Association of University Professors may elect to reduce their monthly dues by thirty percent. Dues for Emeriti are $15.00 per annum. The monthly dues for a full-time Academic Senate member not on the professorial ladder shall be that of the normal ladder-rank corresponding to that member’s nine-month salary. The Board shall develop a comparable and equitable dues structure to cover persons on part-time appointments and in other special categories.
Section 3. Members shall elect to pay monthly dues either by payroll deduction or by annual or semi-annual payments. Annual payment shall be due on July 1 for membership through the ensuing academic year, except that during 1979-80 a single prorated payment shall be due on December 1 1979 for eight months of that academic year. Semi-annual payments shall be due on July 1 and the following January for membership through the corresponding ensuring half-year periods, except that during 1979-80 a single prorated payment shall be due on December 1, 1979 for eight months of that academic year.
Section 4. Changes in any part of the dues structure specified in Section 2 above shall require the approval, in a mail ballot of the membership in good standing, or a majority of those casting valid ballots.
Section 5. Special assessment may be levied upon the recommendation of the Executive Board and upon approval by a majority vote at a subsequent meeting of the Association, providing that the quorum requirement of Article IX, Section 3, is met and that the proposal is specifically announced in the call for the meeting at which ratification is proposed.
Section 6. In the event the Association dissolves, its total assets shall be divided equally among the members in good standing after all debts have been paid. [Back to Top]

Article IX. Meetings.
Section 1. The Association shall schedule at least one regular meeting during each academic year.
Section 2. The Chairman shall call a special meeting of the Association within two weeks when requested to do so by a majority of the Executive Board or on petition signed by at least ten per cent of the membership in good standing.
Section 3. The quorum for any Association meeting shall be twenty Association members in good standing or five percent of such membership, whichever is higher. Any action taken at an Association meeting shall be submitted for approval tot he membership by mail ballot upon request of one-third of the members in attendance at that meeting or of a majority of the Executive Board.
Section 4. The Secretary shall issue a notice of any regular or special meeting of the Association at least seven days prior to the meeting date, unless the Executive Board deems that circumstances require shorter notice.
Section 5. Disputes concerned with procedures to be followed at meetings of the Association shall be resolved whenever possible according to the Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure. When this code does not resolve the procedural difficulty, the dispute may be settled by a ruling of the presiding officer, subject to reversal on appeal only by a vote of at least two-thirds of those members present and voting.

Article X. Voting and Mail Ballots.
Section 1. Except as otherwise specified in these Bylaws, those eligible to participate in any vote or mail ballot must be members in good standing (cf. Art. III, Sec. 2) as of one month prior to the date of the vote or the return date of the mail ballot.
Section 2. Except as otherwise specified in these Bylaws, matters submitted to a vote or mail ballot shall require for adoption only a simple majority of casting valid votes or ballots.
Section 3. Mail ballots other than those required or scheduled by these Bylaws may be initiated for any purpose by the Executive Board or by direction of a regular or special meeting of the Association. Unless the Board shall declare that an emergency exists requiring a shorter prior, or that careful deliberations is needed requiring a longer period, all mail ballots shall require return of the ballots within two weeks of the date of mailing, and this shall be indicated on the ballots. [Back to Top]

Article XI. Amendment of these Bylaws.
Except as provided in Article III, Section 3, and Article VIII, Section 4, these Bylaws may be amended by two-thirds or greater favorable vote of the membership in good standing responding to a mail ballot. Proposed amendments will be submitted to such mail ballot either on recommendation of the Executive Board or by petition of one-third of the membership in good standing.

Article XII. Effective Date.
The Bylaws become effective on November 6, 1979. [Back to Top]