Minutes of Faculty Welfare
Committee, Meeting for Thursday, October 14, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Regular, voting members
present (3): Katrina DuBose, chair, Andrada Ivanescu, and Ken Ferguson, acting
secretary.
Regular, voting members
absent (4): John Reisch, Michael Hartley, Christine Avenarius, and Louis Warren
Ex-officio, voting members
present (3): Linda Ingalls (Representative of VC for Academic and Student
Affairs), Jonathan Dembo (Representative of the Chair of the Faculty), and
Charles Boklage (Representative of the Faculty Senate).
Others present: John Toller,
Lori Lee
Because a quorum, or
majority of the regular, voting members, was noted as not present, there were
no votes called. Approval of the minutes
from the last meeting was postponed for an e-mail vote, where a quorum could be
constituted.
There was a discussion of
Attachment 3 from the Faculty Welfare Committee prepared documents, containing
the suggested text submitted by the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Community
Relations to be included in the Faculty Manual.
After discussion of the three-part text, it was suggested that only the
following passage need be included in the Manual, edited only to delete
references to other passages not also to be included:
“VI. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Policy and University Commitment to Diversity.
East Carolina University celebrates diversity among
the faculty, staff, and students, and is committed to fostering respect for
human difference and equal opportunities for all, regardless of membership in a
University protected class. To that end,
the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Community Relations develops and
implements equal opportunity policies and diversity programs. Information about the Office of Equity,
Diversity, and Community Relations programs and policies, the University’s
protected classes and related nondiscrimination policies and procedures may be
found by visiting the Office Web site at www.ecu.edu/edc.”
In the discussion, it was
suggested that the direction in the retained passage to the official OEO Web
site would be adequate to resolve any faculty questions about the groups
covered by the policy (such as faculty, students, applicants, and visitors) or
the current list of classes within such groups to be afforded special
protection under the policy.
No vote was taken on the
suggestion in regard to Attachment 3. A vote was going to be completed via
e-mail for this item.
There was a discussion of
Attachment 2 from the Faculty Welfare Committee prepared documents, the section
of the Faculty Manual dealing with the Privileges for Retired Faculty (Part VI,
General Personnel Policies, I. Employment Policies, I. Retirement), also to be
subject to possible revision.
In regard to the E-mail
privileges, John Toller stated that to retain an e-mail account, it is no
longer necessary for retired faculty to log in annually. It was suggested that this item be revised to
read:
4. E-mail
Retired faculty may keep their e-mail accounts.
In the discussion of parking
privileges for retired faculty, it was suggested that Section 2. Parking Permits be revised to state that the retired
faculty “may obtain a parking permit
valid in Faculty B Zones,” instead of the weaker condition of “may request,” the latter implying that their
requests may possibly be denied. It was
also requested that Faculty Manual clarify whether the B Parking will be free
to retired faculty, or made available at their cost.
In the discussion of the ECU 1 Card, it was suggested that
Faculty Manual make it clear that retired faculty may obtain an ECU 1 Card,
although they must apply for a new card upon retirement (reported by Linda
Ingalls).
There was also a discussion
as to why certain privileges for retired faculty had been removed from the
Faculty Manual, including the rights to purchase tickets to university events
such as athletic contests and entertainment and the right to tuition waivers
for individual courses. Reasons for
these omissions were cited, for example, that the ticket policy is not under
the control of the faculty.
No votes were taken on any
suggestions in regard to privileges of retired faculty.
John Toller was going to
continue to revise this section and look into other recourcces that retired
faculty can access.
Further sections of the
Faculty Manual to be considered for revision were distributed to members
present, who agreed to examine these sections in preparation for the discussion
at the next regular meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at
5:10 p.m. without objection from the members present.