About Staff Council

The Staff Council is comprised of volunteers and its membership is composed of 13 elected representatives. 50% of the Council representatives are of nonexempt status. The ratio of representation to staff is approximately 1:40. We are elected by our peers within our own apportionment category. There is one representative from the Atlanta Academic category, one from Atlanta Administrative, four from Macon Academic, three from Macon Administrative, two from General University, and one from MERC.

Council representatives are staff employees with at least two years of full-time employment at Mercer. Representatives may not hold the Faculty rank, Assistant Vice President or higher, Assistant Dean or higher, and cannot have served on the Council within the past 12 months. Each representative serves a term of three years beginning July 1st.

The Council meets once a month unless additional meetings are necessary.

When staff issues are presented to the Staff Council, they are taken under consideration. If the Staff Council feels that they should be pursued, usually an Ad Hoc committee is appointed, such as the Child Care Task Force, and this committee researches the issue and reports back to the Staff Council. If the Council feels that recommendations should be made to the President, they do so. If staff bring problems/issues to the attention of Staff Council that fall within another area, such as Benefits, those problems/issues are forwarded to the appropriate department for resolution. The Staff Council sponsors the annual Staff Picnic of which three are held...one in Macon, one in Atlanta, and one at MERC in Warner Robins.

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