ACADEMIC, APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
2003-2004 Academic Year
COMMITTEE: Faculty Welfare
Committtee
1. Membership (include ex-officio
members).
Regular Members: Janice Tovey, David
Lawrence (secretary), Richard Pozzuto, Don Holbert, William Sugar (vice chair),
Melissa Nasea (chair), Richard Taylor (resigned March 2005)
Ex-officio Members: Paul Kauffman, John
Toller, John Core, Reginald Watson, Catherine Rigsby (appointed David Pravica
to represent her), Shannon O'Donnell
2. Meeting Dates (include
members present*).
* and members who contributed to
committee action, but were not at the meeting.
8/26/04 Nasea, Sugar,
Others Present: Catherine Rigsby, James Smith
9/9/04 Nasea, Sugar,
Others Present: Catherine Rigsby, Lori Lee
10/14/04 Sugar,
Others Present: Lori Lee
11/11/04 Nasea, Sugar,
Others Present: Catherine Rigsby, Lori Lee
12/9/04 Nasea, Sugar, Holbert, Toller,
Pravica
1/13/05 Nasea, Sugar,
Others Present: Lori Lee, Paul Zigas
2/10/05 Nasea, Sugar,
Others Present: Catherine Rigsby,
3/10/05 Nasea, Sugar,
Ex-Officio Members Present: John Toller
4/14/05 Nasea, Sugar, Holbert,
Tovey, Toller, Pravica, Watson
Others Present: Catherine Rigsby
3. Subcommittees established
during the year (include progress and/or completion of work).
Serious Illness and Disability Leave
(completed); Faculty Salaries (conducted surveys and reported to Faculty
Senate; will continue next year); Faculty Mentoring (conducted surveys and
report distributed to Faculty Senate; will continue next year)
4. Accomplishments during the
year, especially as addressed through committee goals. Please include recommendations made to any
University agency other than the Faculty Senate that will be noted under
#5.
5. Reports to the Faculty
Senate (include dates and resolution numbers).
November 9, 2004
Preliminary Faculty Salary Report
February 22, 2005
Preliminary faculty mentoring report
distributed
March 22, 2005
Resolution on Domestic Partners
(Resolution 05-20; referred back to committee for clarification and possible
rewording)
Proposed Policy on Serious Illness
and Disability Leave for Faculty (Resolution 05-21; passed)
Addition to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Section I.BB. relating to Mace Bearer (Resolution
05-22; passed)
Revision to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part VI. relating to parking privileges for
retired faculty (Resolution 05-23; passed)
April 19, 2005
Resolution
on Faculty Salary Practices (Resolution 05-35; passed)
6. Business carried over to
next year (list in priority order).
1. Continue to review ECU salary
conditions and report to the Faculty Senate
2. Review status of and recommend a
policy for recruitment and retention of ethnic minority faculty
3. Continue to review ECU mentoring
practices and report to the Faculty Senate
4. Consider drafting a policy on
off-campus scholarly assignment (March 10, 2005 memo from Faculty Chair Rigsby)
5. Re-consider Resolution on
Domestic Partners (referred back to committee)
6. Survey of faculty benefits and perks
at ECU and other UNC-system universities (including health plan)
7. Sick leave for 12 month faculty
(including revision of Serious Illness policy)
8. Hear and act on reports from the
Fixed Term Faculty Committee (Resolution 04-04)
7. Evaluation of the
committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the
committee's work during
the year).
The Committee's charge seems
appropriate but the personnel might need to be expanded to include a university
attorney. Attendance of committee members was sufficient for the committee to
meet and accomplish its goals with the exception of Dec. 9, 2004 when there was
no quorum. The responsibilities were handled successfully. The three
subcommittees were crucial to the accomplishment
of the Committee's work. Lori Lee was a great help to the chair and committee.
8. Suggestion(s) to the Chair
of the Faculty and/or Faculty Senate for improving the effectiveness of the
committee.
If the committee is to continue
writing quasi-legal documents such as the policy on serious illness and
disability leave, the committee might need a university attorney as an
ex-officio member.
9. Does the Committee’s
organizational meeting next year need to be earlier than the date set this
year? yes
If yes, when do you
prefer: Thursday,
August 25
Chairperson: Melissa
Nasea
Secretary: David Lawrence