Employee Assembly Spring 2024 Elections
All regular full-time and part-time staff members in a non-exempt, exempt, or academic non-professorial staff category; and who are employed at the Ithaca, AgriTech in Geneva or Cornell Tech campuses of the university are eligible to run for a seat in this election.
Application Process:
Each person who wishes to be a candidate in these elections must complete the following requirements by 5:00 p.m (EST) on Friday, March 22nd, 2024.- Review the open seats listed below and select ONE.
- All seats will be elected using the Ranked Choice Vote method of voting tabulation. Each seat will be elected with voters ranking candidates in order of preference; the two “At-Large” seats will be awarded to the top two candidates in that race. You may also direct questions to assembly@cornell.edu.
- Review the Election Rules and Candidate Eligibility Guidelines below to ensure your eligibility.
- Complete the online registration form (available after 8:00 a.m. on March 1, 2024) including:
- Name as you would like it to appear on the ballot (if different)
- Phone number
- Campus address
- Seat for which you are running
- Current employee category
- Personal Statement (up to 1,250 characters including spaces)
- Photo
- While petitions are typically required for assembly elections, they are being waived for the Spring 2024 election to create greater parity between staff who are in-person, hybrid, or remote.
- Attend (or send a proxy on your behalf) the mandatory candidate information session on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 via Zoom (link to be provided).
- Online Candidate Registration Form (available after 8:00 a.m. on March 1, 2024)
Important DatesDeadline for Election Registration
- Friday, March 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM EST-online registration form submission.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2024 via Zoom-Link and time to be provided
- Tuesday, March 26, 2024-immediately following the Mandatory Candidate Information Session
- Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 9:00AM EST
- Monday, April 15, 2024 at 12:00PM EST
- Monday, April 15, 2024 at 12:00PM EST via electronic submission to the Office of the Assemblies at assembly@cornell.edu
- Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 12:00PM EST
CANDIDATE ELIGIBILITY Employees who meet the following criteria are eligible to participate in this election.Candidates must:
- work full-time or part-time in a non-exempt, exempt, or academic non-professorial staff category.
- work at the Ithaca, AgriTech in Geneva or Cornell Tech campus.
- work in the corresponding academic college/school if seeking those seats, in the corresponding staff unit if seeking those seats, or identify as a member of the corresponding affinity if seeking an "at-large" seat.
- plan to remain so for the duration of the term of the seat being elected.
- Financial Affairs, Budget & Planning, Audit & Investment Representative*
- SC Johnson School of Business Representative*
- Graduate School and Law School Representative*
- School of Industrial and Labor Relations Representative*
- Disability Representative At-Large
- Library and Museum Representative
- Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Representative At-Large
- More than 20 Years of Service Representative At-Large
- College of Architecture, Art & Planning Representative
- College of Arts and Sciences Representative
- College of Engineering/Computer Information Sciences Representative
- International Representative At-Large
- Health and Safety Representative At-Large*
- Division of Human Resources Representative
- School of Continuing Education, Summer Sessions, and eCornell Representative
- School of Public Policy Representative*