ACADEMIC,
APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
2006-2007
Academic Year
DUE: May 1,
2007
COMMITTEE: Faculty Governance
1. Membership (include ex-officio
members).
·
Regular members (with vote): Patricia Anderson, John Cope,
Mary Gilliland, Mark Jones, Edson Justiniano, Purificación Martínez, Purificación Martínez, Bob Morrison
·
Ex-Officio members (with vote):
Phyllys Horns, Deirdre Mageean, James LeRoy Smith, Mark Taggart, Catherine Rigsby
· Resource
members (without vote): Kristen Bonatz, Lori Lee, Lisa Sutton
(until December 2006), Paul Zigas (until
November 2006, also for meetings on April 25 and 30, 2007)
2. Meeting
Dates (include members present*).
·
January 24, 2007: Patricia Anderson, John Cope, Mary Gilliland, Edson Justiniano, Purificación Martínez , Bob Morrison,
Phyllis Horns, Deirdre Mageean, James LeRoy Smith, Mark Taggart, Catherine
Rigsby, Kristen Bonatz, Lori Lee.
3. Subcommittees
established during the year (include progress and/or completion of work).
·
Subcommittee on Part
XII of the ECU Faculty Manual: Mary
Gilliland, Mark Jones, Kristen Bonatz. (Completed). Presented to the Senate
January 30, 2007.
·
Subcommittee on Part
XIII of the ECU Faculty Manual: Purificación
Martínez . (Completed).
Presented to the Senate February 20, 2007.
·
Subcommittee on
Implementation of Recommendations of the Fixed-Term Task Force for Appendix C: Purificación
Martínez , Bob Morrison.
(Completed). Pending discussion by Faculty Governance next academic
year.
· Subcommittee on Implementation of Recommendations of the
Fixed-Term Task Force for Appendix D: Mark Jones, Mark Taggart. (Completed).
Pending discussion by Faculty Governance next academic year.
· Subcommittee on the Implementation
of Recommendations of the Fixed-Term Task Force for Appendix L: Mary Gilliland,
Mark Jones, Purificación
Martínez. (Completed). Continue
discussion by Faculty Governance next academic year.
· Subcommittee on
Joint Appointments: Edson Justiniano, Catherine Rigsby, Mark Taggart.
(Ongoing).
·
Subcommittee
on Revision of the Annual Faculty Survey of Administrators: Ken Wilson.
(Ongoing).
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.
·
The committee finished
and defended in the Faculty Senate revisions of Part XII and Part XIII of the ECU Faculty Manual.
·
The committee made
editorial changes to Appendix D of the ECU
Faculty Manual.
·
The committee informed
both the Faculty Senate and General Administration of these editorial changes
to Appendix D
·
The committee helped
design the policy for implementation of Appendix D, Part XII and Part XIII of
the ECU Faculty Manual.
·
The committee finished
its discussion of the Quadrennial Faculty Evaluation of Administrators.
·
Through its
representatives, the committee had preliminary discussions of the Quadrennial
Faculty Evaluation of Administrators with the Chancellor and with the
Chancellor’s Cabinet.
·
The committee will send
the Quadrennial Faculty Evaluation of Administrators to Deans, directors and
unit administrators at the beginning of May. The committee expects to receive
suggestions from them regarding this policy during the course of the summer.
After reading all suggestions, the committee will decide in its first meeting
of the 2007-2008 whether it is necessary to have open hearings before
presenting the policy in the fall of 2007 to the senate.
·
The committee has
almost completed work on the revisions of Appendix L of the ECU Faculty Manual. The committee
expects to present these revisions to the senate in Fall 2007.
·
All the subcommittees formed to study the implementation of the
recommendations of the fixed term task force finished their work. Discussions
of Appendix L at the committee level are almost completed, as indicated above.
Discussions of Appendix C and D will be carried over to next academic year.
·
The committee has established a very cooperative working relationship
with Associate Vice Chancellor Ingalls
·
Through its representatives, the committee has participated in the
following university activities:
○ Workshop
for Administrators Regarding Personnel Policies and the ECU Faculty Manual
○ 2
meetings with Provost Smith, Vice Provost Peel, and Associate Vice Chancellors
Ingalls and Cook regarding implementation
of Appendix D, Part XII and Part XIII.
○ Workshop
regarding tenure and promotion sponsored by the Committee on the Status of
Women
○ Meeting
with Chancellor Ballard regarding the Quadrennial Faculty Evaluation of
Administrators.
○ Meeting
with the Chancellor’s Cabinet regarding the Quadrennial Faculty Evaluation of
Administrators.
○ 2
meetings with Vice Provost for Research Mageean, Associate Vice Chancellor for
Research Gemperline, Dean of
Graduate Studies Pellicane, Chair of Geology Studies Culver regarding the
search of a Director for the Interdisciplinary
Institute for Coastal Science and Policy.
5. Reports to the Faculty Senate (include
dates and resolution numbers).
·
Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual Part XII Personnel
Action Dossier. January 30, 2007. Resolution #07-01
·
Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual Part XIII Promotion
and Tenure Timeline. February 20, 2007. Resolution #07-07
·
Editorial changes to
the ECU Faculty Manual Appendix D.
February 20, 2007.
·
Editorial changes to
the ECU Faculty Manual Appendix D.
April 17, 2007.
6. Business
carried over to next year (list in priority order).
· Present to the Senate the
Quadrennial Faculty Evaluation of Administrators
· Finish discussion and present to the
Senate revisions to Appendix L
· Discuss and present to the senate revisions to
Appendix C
· Follow up on the Commission of
Scholarship proposal
· Study revisions to ECU Faculty
Manual regarding joint appointments
· Revise Part I of the ECU Faculty Manual regarding
Interpretations.
· Consider voting by non-tenured
faculty in selecting unit administrator in Appendix L
· Consider the definition of voting
faculty in Appendices D and L.
· Consider forming college and
university-wide tenure and promotion committees
· Consider revision of Appendix L to
incorporate a review of colleges’ constitutions by a standing academic
committee.
7. Evaluation of the committee (include
anything that hindered or assisted the
committee's work during the year).
A. Charge:
The charge is effective
B. Personnel: The members of the committee
are dedicated and committed. All the members should be commended for their hard
work. Special thanks should be given to Lori Lee, who is an indispensable
resource member.
C. Attendance: Attendance was excellent,
even though the committee met twice a month.
D. Responsibilities: The committee has many
important and varied responsibilities. All of them were met with outstanding
professionalism.
E. Activities: The committee made
extraordinary progress in the duties carried over from previous years, this
would have been impossible without the exemplary dedication of all its members.
8. Suggestion(s) to the Chair of the Faculty
and/or
The
attendance to the meeting of Provost Smith, and Vice Chancellors Horns and
Mageean has allowed better communication of the committee with the other
administrators in campus. The change from representative of the Chancellor to
resource to the committee of the University Attorney has also been very
successful. We recommend that this model (the Academic Council present and the
university attorney as resource) be maintained in the future.
9. Does the Committee’s organizational
meeting next year need to be earlier than the date set this year?
No
If yes, when do you
prefer:_____________________________________________
Signed: Chairperson
Purificación
Martínez
Secretary Mark Jones