Faculty Senate Elections

Campus Colleagues,

Two weeks ago, I communicated with you about nominations for upcoming Faculty Senate elections held by your colleges and units. You also heard from President Capilouto about providing feedback for the Faculty Senate Administrative Regulation (AR). Both are crucial to the university’s commitment to upholding our guiding principle of shared governance.

The work of the Faculty Senate will be essential to continue the immense impact UK has on communities through teaching, research, service and care. The work of faculty across the institution has far-reaching implications: your work touches the lives of students in classrooms; your research guides us to answers for Kentucky’s most pressing questions; and the service and care you provide to our communities enable growth and healing in countless ways. 

Serving on the Faculty Senate can be a pivotal moment for faculty, as the work conducted by the body has direct and lasting effects on the institution and academic matters. The connections with other faculty across campus — across disciplines — enabled by the Faculty Senate can impact both your work and your passions. These transdisciplinary collaborative opportunities are invaluable both to faculty development as well-rounded professionals and experts and to the continued development of UK as an elite institution of learning and discovery.

Through the month of October, your colleges and units will continue sharing information about faculty senator elections — I encourage you to use this opportunity to learn more about these processes within your areas and to run for election. As a faculty senator, you can use your voice to represent both your college or unit and UK faculty as a whole. 

It is in the Faculty Senate that faculty will help shape the trajectory of education and curriculum at UK. The Faculty Senate was created to maximize faculty input from all colleges and areas in the university and to empower faculty as experts in your fields as well as education and curriculum.

I am excited to see how the Faculty Senate will work to advance UK and our Commonwealth in the months to come. Thank you for continuing to help build the future of faculty representation at UK. 

Robert S. DiPaola, M.D. 
Provost