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Purpose:
- To facilitate the SUNY and Oswego College policies regarding retired
professional staff members;
- To permit retired professional staff members to maintain contact
with the institution to which they have devoted a significant portion
of their professional lives;
- To provide a setting designed to enhance professional staff members;
and
- To provide to the College at Oswego a pool of experience and talent
which may be invited at the discretion of the President of the College
to assist in the conduct of the institution’s affairs.
Membership:
- All professional staff members who retire from service at SUNY Oswego
shall be considered members of the Emeriti Association.
- All spouses, widows, and widowers of retired professional staff members
at SUNY Oswego shall be considered associate members of the Emeriti
Association.
- Professional staff and spouses who do not meet the above criteria
may become Emeriti Associates upon approval by the Board of Directors.
- Professional staff is understood to include faculty and administrators
holding academic rank or qualified academic rank; librarians having
the titles of “librarian,” “associate librarian,” “senior assistant librarian,” and “assistant librarian;” and non-teaching professionals who are not designated clerical, classified,
or management confidential.
- The chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Association shall
communicate with professional staff persons upon their retirement, informing
them of the services and programs of the Association and inviting their
participation and financial support.
Financial Contribution:
- Members of the Association and widows and widowers of deceased members
will be invited to make an annual contribution to support the work of
the Association.
- The suggested amount shall be set by the annual meeting at a level
believed to be sufficient to fund the Emeriti Newsletter and other approved
programs of the Association for the next year.
- Members of the Association may choose to make a one-time contribution
of $125.00.
Annual Meeting:
- There shall be an annual meeting of the Emeriti Association, held
on the first Monday of August at an hour and place set by the Board
of Directors.
- At that meeting, an annual class of Board of Directors members will
be elected and any unexpired Board vacancies filled.
- The annual meeting shall act on the Board of Directors’ recommended
activities for the next year and the amount of financial contribution
to be requested of members.
- The fiscal year of the Association begins on the first day of September.
Board of Directors
- The business
of the Association shall be conducted by a Board of Directors.
- The Board of
Directors shall be made up of nine (9) or ten (10) members. Three (3)
members shall be elected at each annual meeting to serve three-year
terms.
- If the person
selected to serve as Emeriti Newsletter editor is not one of the elected
Board members, that person shall become an ex-officio member of the
Board, giving the Board a total membership of ten (10).
- At its first
meeting after September first, the Board of Directors shall select from
its own membership a chairperson, a vice chairperson, a secretary, and
a treasurer. Board officers shall take office upon election and serve
until replaced.
- The chairperson
and vice chairperson of the Board of Directors shall also serve as president
and vice president respectively of the Emeriti Association.
- The Board of
Directors shall appoint an editor for the Emeriti Newsletter to serve
for a three-year term. The editor may appoint an editorial board to
help carry out the mission of the Newsletter.
- Vacancies on
the Board occurring between annual meetings may be filled by the remaining
members of the Board. Persons so appointed shall be subject to election
to the balance of the unexpired term at the next annual meeting.
- The College’s
Vice President for Development and Public Affairs or that person’s
designee shall be invited to serve as the College’s liaison to
the Board of Directors.
- Prior to the
annual meeting, the Board of Directors shall select a three-member Nominating
Committee from its own membership to present a slate of candidates for
election to the Board of Directors.
- The Board of
Directors shall present to the annual meeting a schedule of proposed
activities for the next year and a suggested financial contribution
sufficient to fund the activities.
Amendments
- This constitution shall be adopted and may be amended, upon the recommendation
of the Board of Directors, by a two-thirds vote of the members present
and voting at an annual meeting.
Approved at Annual Meeting, August 2, 2004
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