Faculty Governance Committee

Minutes 09/24/08

• Persons present:
• Members: Jan Tovey, Catherine Rigsby, Mariana Walker, Marilyn Sheerer, George Bailey, Phyllis Horns, MGF Gilliland, Edson Justiniano, Mark Jones, Puri Martinez; Deirdre Mageean
• Guests: Linda Ingalls, Lori Lee, Hope Murphy
• Minutes of last meeting approved
• Discussion of “Appendix B Policy for the Cumulative Review of Permanently Tenured Faculty of East Carolina University” also known as post tenure review
• Add “meeting at least semiannually” [unknown to what this referred]
• Consider this a “performance review of tenured faculty”
• Who initiates the review - depends upon Unit Code, Appendix C, and Appendix D
• Faculty assembles a 5-year performance view file
• Materials provided in annual report
• Highlights of last 5 years
• Intended to provide opportunity to recognize and reward outstanding performance
• Tenure committee must realize
• “Outstanding” in all three is no longer necessary for tenure
• Best one or two of three has come to us from Guidelines from the Board of Governors
• Subcommittee will review and provide by 12 noon tomorrow
• George Bailey to Linda Ingalls to Catherine Rigsby
• “Cumulative”
• Change in name of committee
• Do not change in points taken from guidelines
• What about mentoring in development plan, anywhere? Formal developmental program agreed to by faculty member should suffice
• Approved document pending editorial changes with editorial changes for consistency

• Discussion of Mandate from GA with deadline March 1, 2009 includes: special faculty, hearings, review Appendix D
• Some simple editorial changes suggested
• Insert what is grieveable
• Moved to 6-10 Special Faculty definitions
• University Attorneys have identified places where wording leads to problems
• In process of generating list: Jan Tovey, George Bailey, University Attorney
• Nothing to do with other committee meeting Wed mornings at 0730
• Subcommittee will include: George Bailey, Puri Martinez, Edson Justiniano, Catherine Rigsby
• Email originally sent Feb 14, 2008, resent 7/9/2008 including BOG Code 600 (see later)

• Jan Tovey met with Chancellor Steve Ballard and discussed the Administrator Review
• Ad hoc faculty committee, Jan suggested 5-7 people, clinical & 2 from Faculty Governance
• Other areas to be included? Such as Graduate Assembly too? Yes
• It should be sent back to FGC
• The joint statement was agreed upon 02/19/08 but other things have supervened, the Trustees and Chancellors are committed to Nov 2007 policy – the review is administrative work with faculty input
• Substantive faculty input is removed and may lead to problems
• The policy does not follow “best practices” seen elsewhere
• Commitment to faculty input is there from Chancellor & Vice Chancellor

• Discussion of matters which we need to discuss:
• Code 600 Changes
• Start on Commission on Scholarship (mandated by UNC)
• Joint appointments, will be difficult if not impossible to achieve by March 2009
• Something from Appendix C in a week > 2 weeks ago
• To the extent we are included in UNC Tomorrow report
• It is being finished but not is not yet completed
• Subcommittees’ reports have been returned
• What is the timeline? Committee expected report for Scholarship of Engagement December, 2009
• Brainstorm what do we need to do with
• Faculty Manual
• Scholarship of Engagement
• Common documentation
• At the General Assembly today
• Appalachian & Charlotte farthest along attempting UNC Tomorrow changes
• Faculty involved, very difficult even if get words, implementation is very difficult

• On Oct 15, Diversity Office will present “Myths about the Faculty Manual”
• It does work works to hire diverse faculty
• Some administrators have asserted that their hands are tied by the Faculty Manual
• The Climate discussion suggested that classism rather than race was the problem

• 1649 Adjourned
• Respectfully submitted, MGF Gilliland MD, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BSOM at ECU