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29.				The Committee on Grievance is a faculty Committee created to provide faculty members with an internal process in which colleagues can hear and attempt to resolve matters pertaining to an individual faculty member's employment. The Committee's membership, jurisdiction, and procedures are discussed in this policy. Procedural issues may be further elaborated by the Committee through the adoption of operating procedures consistent with the policy.
(a)				Membership The Committee on Grievance shall consist of five members of the faculty, of whom two shall be from the permanent staff, two from the temporary staff, and one a member-at-large who may be from either the permanent or the temporary staff. One member of the faculty from the permanent staff and one from the temporary staff shall stand in reserve for service on the Committee if one or more of the regular members be disqualified for consideration of a case by a conflict of interest. When the services of a faculty member standing in reserve are required, the choice of which faculty member is to serve shall be such as to maintain the number of temporary staff and the number of permanent staff on the Committee whenever possible. At the beginning of each case, the question of whether a conflict of interest exists for a member of the Committee shall be decided, and the choice of the alternate member shall be made by the regular members of the Committee on Grievance, the member(s) in question abstaining. A member of the Committee has a conflict of interest if: (i) The member is a member of the department or program of the petitioner; (ii) The member has herself or himself previously voted in any capacity in the case being brought to the Committee; or (iii) The member is a current or former family member of the petitioner. No currently serving members of the administration or of the Committee on Tenure and Promotion shall be eligible for election to or service on the Committee on Grievance. Each year the members shall elect one of their number as Chair.
(b)				Terms of office, nomination and election Members of the Committee shall be elected for terms of three years, the terms of office to be staggered so that one of the permanent staff members and one of the temporary staff members be elected in one year, the member-at-large be elected in the next year, and one of the permanent staff members and one of the temporary staff members be elected in the following year. A member of the Committee shall not be eligible for re-election until after a period of time equal to that individual's term of office on the Committee. The classification of a member of the faculty as a member of the temporary staff or as a member of the permanent staff shall be determined by the status of the individual at the time of nominations for election to the Committee. If a member of the temporary staff is made a member of the permanent staff during his or her term of office, the member continues to serve on the Committee as one of the temporary-staff members until his or her term expires. Nominations and elections shall be made in accordance with the provisions in sections 46 of the Faculty Code. The members of the Committee shall nominate two candidates from the permanent staff for each opening in that category and two candidates from the temporary staff for each opening in that category, and, for elections in which the position of member-at-large is to be filled, one additional candidate each from the permanent and temporary staff. The ballot shall list all candidates, those nominated by the Committee and those nominated by the faculty-at-large, in two groups: members of the permanent staff and members of the temporary staff. All voting members of the faculty will vote preferentially within each group. In elections in which the position of member-at-large is to be filled, the member-at-large shall be that candidate from the entire slate of nominees who is elected with the largest