Approved, November 2000

The selection process is as follows:

1. At the beginning of the spring semester of the fourth year of the current director's term, the chair of the department will notify all full time tenure-track and tenured faculty of their eligibility for the position of director of Public History.

2. Members who wish to serve a four-year term as director of Public History must provide the chair of the department with three documents: a letter of intent to seek the position, a one-page statement of vision for the Public History program, and a curriculum vitae.

3. The chair of the department will photocopy the documents described above and make these documents available to the faculty eligible to vote on personnel issues. These documents must be made available at least two weeks in advance of the department meeting called to select the director of Public History. 4. At the designated meeting called to deliberate and select the Public History director, faculty members will vote by secret ballot. To secure the position, a faculty member will need to receive a simple majority of the votes cast by those present; no proxy votes will be accepted.