After three-and-a-half years, a proposed University Senate Constitution now faces its last roadblock - the Board of Trustees.
After 60 days of voting that ended May 7, preliminary numbers show faculty and professional personnel passed the proposal, Sen. Bruce Hozeski said.
According to the current Constitution, the proposal needed a two-thirds majority to pass.
Senators will conduct a final tally this week and will then give the proposal to the Board of Trustees.
The Board will likely vote on the proposal at its July meeting, Hozeski said.
He said he doesn't have any reason to suspect the Board would vote against the proposal.
Board member Hollis Hughes Jr. said he has not seen the proposal.
"(The Board is) committed to shared governance, and as long as it's not a radical difference, I can' t see any reason why it wouldn't pass," Hughes said.
Whether the Board will consider the proposal radical, Hozeski said he thinks it brings a needed update to the current constitution.
The current Constitution was created 20 years ago. Hozeski, who was also the head of the task force that created the proposal, said distance education and computers and technology were just beginning and are lost in the current constitution.
The proposal also streamlines committees under three councils: one that represents students, one that represents faculty and one that represents all three constituencies.
Hozeski said the new order strengthens the voice of students, faculty and professional personnel.
If the Board passes the proposal, the new constitution wouldn't go into effect until Spring 2005, when the next Senate elections will be held.
"The implementation, once the Board passes it, shouldn't be too bad," he said. "Everything is spelled out in the current Constitution."
Hozeski said the biggest problem in implementing the new Constitution would be creating a rotation system for electing senators.
"Otherwise we'd have a complete turnaround every two years," Hozeski said.
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