January 28, 2009 Faculty Governance Committee Meeting

 

1. Present:

o       Chair: Puri Martínez; voting members: Mark Jones, Catherine Rigsby, George Bailey, Ken Wilson, MGF Gilliland, and Marianna Walker

o       Ex-officio members with vote: Marilyn Sheerer, Deirdre Mageean, Phyllis Horns, and Jan Tovey

o       Resource persons: Hope Murphy, Esq; Lori Lee, and Linda Ingalls

 

2. Approved minutes of meeting of 12/03/08

 

 

3. Appendix D.V. The committee continued discussion of proposed changes to Appendix D.V. Rigsby moved approval of the revisions. Tovey seconded. Motion carried unanimously. The revised section of Appendix D.V will be sent to the Agenda Committee.

 

4. Appendix D VI, Due Process reviewed by subcommittee Martinez, Rigsby, and Bailey with input from Murphy. The committee discussed the proposed revisions. Rigsby moved approval of the revisions. Tovey seconded. Motion carried unanimously. The revised section of Appendix D.VI will be sent to the Agenda Committee.

 

5. New Business 1: University Policy Development Proposal.

 

Tovey circulated the draft of the University Policy Development Proposal.

 

Rigsby nominated Martínez to fill the vacancy in the University Policy Development committee. Martínez agreed to serve. Tovey accepted the nomination.

 

The committee approved the following procedure for approval of the proposal: from the University Policy Development Committee to Faculty Governance to Faculty Senate. Lori Lee will contact chair of UPDC regarding this.

 

Tovey asked Martínez to join her in discussions with Donna Payne regarding possible implementation of the proposal. Martínez accepted. In these discussions, Martínez will act as liaison for Faculty Governance and Committee on Committees.

 

 

6. New business 2: Review of business carried over.

 

 

1.      Collaborate with the Diversity Office in a workshop on increasing diversity in the faculty.
Each unit is working on individual diversity plans – Faculty Officers will look over what diversity officer has drafted and submit to FG if necessary.

 

2.      Continue work on the ECU Policy on Five-Year Review of Academic Administrative Officers. Subcommittee established of Tovey, Horns, Wilson, Walker in 1-14-09.

 

3.      Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix D regarding changes to section V governing the work of the Appellate Hearing Committee.  Completed as of 1-28-09.

 

4.      Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix D regarding definition of voting faculty.   This issue related to number 10 in the list. Because of the Board of Trustees Policies, revisions to voting faculty definitions in Appendix D and Appendix L are no longer necessary.

5.      Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix D regarding deletion of interpretations included online. Lori to do

6.      Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix D regarding faculty members’ request for a leave of absence, i.e. for fixed term faculty.   Subcommittee established of Bailey, Walker with Ingalls as resource person on 1-28-09. They will look at 7 and 8 in this list.  

 

7.      Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix D regarding section D.II.c.3. procedures to extend probationary period. Subcommittee established of Bailey, Walker with Ingalls as resource person on 1-28-09. They will look at 7 and 8 in this list.  



8.      Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix L regarding recommendations from Task Force of Fixed Term Faculty.  Completed. This information has been incorporated into Appendix C.

9.      Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix L regarding definition of voting faculty.   This issue related to number 10 in the list. Because of the Board of Trustees Policies revisions to voting faculty definitions in Appendix D and Appendix L are no longer necessary.

10. Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix L regarding incorporation of a review of colleges’ constitutions by a standing academic committee.  No longer important and will not discuss further.

11. Review ECU Faculty Manual, Appendix L regarding voting by non-tenure faculty in selecting unit administrator.     No longer important and will not discuss further.

12. Study revisions to ECU Faculty Manual regarding joint appointments. Subcommittee of Rigsby and Justiniano still working on. They will present at the end of Spring 2009.

13. Collaborate with Academic Standards Committee on revisions to Appendix C relating to the Student Opinion of Instruction Survey. Completed

14. Revise Part I of the ECU Faculty Manual regarding Interpretations.  Because of 4 in this list and also clarification regarding who is involved in making interpretations, the issue is considered done.

 

15. Consider forming college and university-wide tenure and promotion committees.   Other things should be done first before bringing this back up and forming an elected faculty group at both the college and University levels as “advisory to the dean”. The Academic Council will resubmit to the committee when they consider it appropriate.

16. NEW – establish a policy on faculty workloads including addressing the reassigned time of one semester without any product being developed – if used it should be offered to every unit and be a universal - Academic deans and directors are forming a subcommittee with Jan and Marilyn chairing the group to draft a faculty workload policy.   (“100% reassigned time” is now available and included in UNC Policy Manual.)

The meeting was adjourn at 5 pm.

 

After adjournment two editorial changes were added to Appendix D V and VI and agreed upon by the membership by email

 

Respectfully submitted,

MGF Gilliland

Professor

Brody SOM at ECU

mggillil@pcmh.com