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Refer to By-laws for Committee Appointment Procedures #68

Closed anushadatar closed 4 years ago

anushadatar commented 4 years ago

The constitution restricts how we do committee appointments in a very vague way. It would be better to just reference the by-laws.

If a committee or working group of faculty and/or staff requests student representative(s), the Council may solicit volunteers from the Student Body to fill the representative positions on that committee. If there are more volunteers than available positions, the Council will appoint students by excellence voting.

Could instead be:

If a committee or working group of faculty and/or staff requests student representative(s), the Council may solicit volunteers from the Student Body to fill the representative positions on that committee. If there are more volunteers than available positions, the Council will appoint students by a procedure codified in the by-laws.

anushadatar commented 4 years ago

The reason to propose that it be connecting to the by-laws is that the appointment process changes depending on the number of volunteers and the nature of the role. We rewrote some by-laws to try to make that more clear, but we still are iterating there and it also falls in too much detail to place in the Constitution. Keeping the Constitution as a pointer to the by-laws gives us the flexibility we need to make the right decision but still ensures we continue to follow a rigorous process. Addressed in PR 73

anushadatar commented 4 years ago

Voted in at 2/12 town hall.