East Carolina University

Unit Code Screening Committee

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

 

Attendance:

a.       Andrew Morehead, Bill Grossnickle, Carl Swanson, Beth Velde, Mark McCarthy, Kathy Misulis

b.      Department of English representative: Margaret Bauer & Donna Lillian and Department of Biology representative Lisa Clough

 

2.                  Call to order: Meeting was called to order at 4:05 in Brewster B104

 

3.         Review of code for the Department of English

Line

Issue

First paragraph

Redo the punctuation. You need some semicolons, not all commas

38

Insert comma after Appendix D (suggested)

49

Italicize ex officio (suggested)

80

Could you be consistent in use of caps with Fixed Term Faculty (suggested)

95 & 133

Be consistent in use of caps to start Department (suggested)

420

Be consistent in use of hyphens (suggested)

427

Be consistent re: permanently tenured (suggested)

Section N

Be clear re: use of proxies in personnel decisions (suggested)

603

Consider substituting that for which (suggested)

 

Carl Swanson moved, Kathy Misulis seconded motion to approve code of Department of English. Motion carried.

 

4. Review of code for the Department of Biology

 

Line, page

Issue

12, p. 2

Add “‘ for master’s degree” (suggested)

Throughout

Take out specific references to section of Faculty Manual

Throughout

Italicize ECU Faculty Manual  (suggested)

13, p. 4

Remove extra space before; (suggested)

7, p. 3

Add the word “ title” after “rank” if you want fixed term to vote (suggested)

1, p. 7

Check for accuracy on whether Office of Cooperative Education is still in existence, consider making more general statements to maintain flexibility (suggested)

8-14, p., 8

Consider capitalizing “Personnel Committee, Promotion Committee”, etc. (suggested)

p. 8

Fix the formatting (suggested)

7, p. 8

Consider changing to “annually” in terms of election (suggested)

9, p. 8

Clarify the election is from the membership of the committee (suggested)

10, p. 8

Change “appoint” to “elect” (suggested)

12, p. 8

Clarify that must have rank equal to the rank the person desires (suggested)

14, p. 8

Reword to consistently use verbs or nouns to begin each item on list, consider being consistent with punctuation at end of the list (suggested)

Page 9

Reformat so that it is understandable (suggested)

15-17, p. 9

Review punctuation (suggested)

24, p. 9

Change “comprise” to “include” (suggested)

3, p. 10

Change to read “annually” in terms of election (suggested)

14, p. 10

Clarify standing committees in reference to all personnel action committees (suggested)

26, p. 10

Clarify if ex officio members have a vote, do this throughout (suggested)

5, p. 112

Capitalize “Chair” and be consistent throughout (suggested)

15, p. 13

Consider revising wording to active tense (suggested)

10, p. 13

Consider changing category to activity (suggested)

2, p. 14

Remove “Attachment A” and reword to “agreed upon departmental policies” (suggested)

20, p. 15

Be consistent re: punctuation, consider adding “and” (suggested)

p. 18

Be consistent re: formatting (line 17) (suggested)

13, p. 19

Italicize Newly Revised (suggested)

p. 19

Consider how quorum is determined in term of members (suggested)

9, p. 19

Do not capitaliize chair (suggested)

24, p. 19

Remove “SAC’s” and replace with “major planning documents” (CHANGE)

Page 20

Missing procedures for developing criteria for salary increases (see J on the checklist for unit codes). SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE

5, p. 20

Collapse C and D into “Administrators will be evaluated according to the ECU Faculty Manual.” (CHANGE)

Add

See item “I” on unit code checklist. You need to add procedures for discussing with its unit administrator the unit’s annual budget request and annual report. SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE

 

Code returned to Biology due to substantive changes required. Changes must be made and approved by Biology faculty prior to returning code to committee for second review.

 

 

5.  Meeting adjourned at 5:10 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted: Beth P. Velde PhD, OTR/L secretary