Nominating and Ballot - Annual Report - 2025-2026

Library Governance Committee Final Report

 

Fiscal Year: 2025-2026

Committee Name: Nominating & Balloting Committee Chair: Adrienne Sanders Members (with terms):

Adrienne Sanders, 2025-2027

Joe Orosco, 2025-2027 (joined October 2025)

Loren Bracciano, 2024-2026 (stepped down March 2026) Rebecca Schroeder, 2025-2026

Membership: The Nominating and Ballot Committee is appointed by the LFSA Executive Committee and is composed of three members, with at least one member from LSA and one member from LFA.

Terms of Office: Committee members serve two-year overlapping terms.

 

 

Standing Charges:

 

The Nominating and Balloting Committee:

  • Issues the call for nominations, recruits candidates for elections, and contacts nominees to verify their willingness to serve

  • Provides a slate of candidates for the officers (Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Secretary) of LFA and LSA and for standing committees with elected membership, in sufficient time for elections to take place no later than May 15

  • Assembles all ballots, tabulates, and reports the results to the respective LFA and LSA Executive Committees within one week

Standing Charges Progress/Accomplishment Summary:

 

Note: As of November 2025, there were 87 voting members of LSA and 46 voting members of LFA. Numbers varied slightly throughout the year. All ballots were distributed via Qualtrics.

 

Special Election for LSA vice-chair/chair elect

  • Position: the LSA vice-chair/chair elect position became available due to departure of previous vice-chair (Jack Hawthorn)
    • Voting period: August 28-September 3
    • Results: Sydney McFadden elected

 

LFSA Salary and Benefits Committee Ballot

  • Charge: remove the Salary and Benefits Committee from under LFSA, as the United Academics of KU union will be assuming these responsibilities for faculty going forward.
    • Voting period: January 14-February 6
    • Results: 89 responses, 80 yes, 9 no; measure passed.


 

 

LFSA Ballot on new Standing Charge for Nominating & Balloting

  • Charge: add the following to Standing Charges for the Libraries’ Nominating and Balloting Committee: “Maintains a record of faculty service for five years to assist with recruiting faculty candidates for LFA and LFSA governance committees.”
    • Voting period: February 16-March 9
    • Results: 79 responses, 69 yes, 10 no; charge approved.

LFA Ballot on new Standing Charge for LCPT

  • Charge: add the following to the standing charges for the Libraries’ Committee on Promotion and Tenure: “When requested by the Dean of Libraries, review new-hire faculty files to determine if awarding tenure and/or elevated rank is appropriate.”
    • Voting period: February 16-February 20
    • Results: 29 responses, 28 yes and 1 no

 

Faculty voted to approve this charge, but the dean later asked for rewording, and a revision was proposed at the LFA Spring Assembly (May 7). The revised charge was added to the LFA General Election Ballot in late May 2026.

LSA General Election Ballot 2026

  • Voting period: May 19-May 26
    • Ballot return rate: LSA 40 completed
    • Results: New LSA officers were elected for their respective terms as indicated below.

Library Staff Assembly Executive Committee - Joining Sydney McFadden as chair:

  • Grace Brazell (LSA vice chair/chair-elect)
    • Owen Murphy (secretary)
      • Asher Dean, Erika Earles, Meredith Phares (members at large)

 

LFA General Election Ballot 2026

  • Voting period: May 19-May 26
    • Ballot return rate: 43 completed
    • Results: New LFA officers and committee members were elected for their respective terms as indicated below.

Library Faculty Assembly Executive Committee - Joining Elspeth Healy as chair.

  • Erin Wolfe, vice-chair/chair-elect (two-year term)
    • Sarah McCall, secretary (one-year term)
      • Rebekah Ramos, assistant librarian representative (one-year term)
      • Jill Becker, associate librarian representative (one-year term)
      • Jon Giullian, librarian representative (one-year term)

 

Library Committee on Promotion and Tenure

  • Jason Dean (two-year term)

 

Sabbatical Leave and Post Tenure Review


 

  • Andi Back (two-year term)
    • Josh Bolick (two-year term)

 

Ballot on revised Standing Charge for LCPT

  • Charge: add the following to the standing charges for the Libraries’ Committee on Promotion and Tenure: “When requested by the Dean of Libraries, review new-hire faculty files and recommend whether awarding tenure and/or elevated rank

is appropriate.”

  • Voting period: May 19-May 26
    • Results: 41 responses, 41 yes (100%)

LFA Ballot on changes to Guidelines for Academic Appointments

Special Charges: none

 

Potential Charges for Future Committees/Recommendations: none

 

Please review the Committee’s portion of the Library Governance website and the Code. Does it need updating/correcting?: no

 

Prepared By: Adrienne Sanders