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Spring 26 FSU Election Results And Announcement of Special Election for Vice President

Dear FSU member,

Voting for the President, Librarian, Non-Tenure Track, and Tenured Representative elections closed this morning at 9AM, and the election results are in.

Congratulations to your newly elected FSU Executive Committee members:

President:                                               Jason Rodriquez, Professor, Sociology

Librarian Representative:                  E.K Lee, Librarian IV, Healey Library

NTT Representatives:                         Monique Fuguet, Senior Lecturer, Mathematics, Karen Grayson, Senior Lecturer II, English

Tenured Representatives:                  Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Associate Professor, Political Science, Helen Poynton, Professor, School For The Environment

(please contact the FSU Elections Committee if you would like details on the final vote tallies).

Thank you to all the candidates for running for office and to all who voted.

When the current FSU Vice President, Jason Rodriquez, takes office as President at the end of the Spring 26 semester, the office of FSU Vice President will be vacated. The FSU Executive Committee has approved a special election for Vice President. Information on the special election, inclusive of the call for nominations and election timelines, is attached . A nomination form is also attached (please note that the winner of the special election for Vice President will take office at the end of the Spring 26 semester and will serve the remainder of the current 2 year term for Vice President, which concludes at the end of the Spring 27 semester).

FSU Elections Committee:

Lynne Byall Benson, Senior Lecturer, Women’s Gender And Sexuality Studies

Andrew Elder, Librarian V, Healey Library

Travis Johnston, Associate Professor, Political Science

Rania Said, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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