Faculty
Senate Meeting
April
20, 2010
NEW
BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY
BUDGET COMMITTEE REPORT
Budgetary Recommendations for the academic
year 2009-2010
April 15, 2009
Steve Ballard, Ph.D.
Chancellor,
Dear Chancellor Ballard:
Enclosed are the University Budget Committee’s budgetary
recommendations for the academic year 2009-2010. In these difficult economic times, the
Committee appreciates the open and candid manner with which you and your
administration have embraced the work of the Committee. The members recognize that the current budget
environment precludes any of us from knowing the full extent of budgetary
issues confronting East Carolina University until the close of each fiscal year. The Committee also recognizes your efforts in
minimizing the effects of budgetary cuts on the academic mission of ECU with
particular emphasis on student, staff, and faculty employment. Your administration’s interactions with the
Committee have provided the transparency necessary for shared governance. This environment has made it possible for the
Committee to provide you with what we believe to be sound and timely
advice.
The charge of the University Budget Committee is to advise you and
report to the Faculty Senate. The
enclosed recommendations are our means to provide you with the advice you
require and will be reported to the Faculty Senate as per our charge.
Sincerely,
Timothy P. Gavin, Ph.D.
Chair, University Budget Committee
Attachment
cc: Marianna Walker, Ph.D., Chair of the Faculty Senate
University
Budget Committee members
Recommendations
1.
Budget
cuts and allocation of new funding should be made in line with the Value
Statement of the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees policy framework
for resource allocation that protect to the greatest extent possible the
academic core and our commitment to
teaching, research, and service.
2.
Budgetary
cuts should minimize any adverse effects on student learning or the safety of
students and University personnel.
3.
Consistent
with the views expressed by your administration, budgetary cuts should seek to
prevent or if necessary minimize reductions in force.
4.
It is important to continue open lines of
communication and transparency among all constituencies (students, staff,
faculty, and administration) of the University.
5.
Budget
cuts should minimize damage to the University in ways that are not easily
reversed upon the return of an improved economy.
6.
Budgetary
cuts should be avoided that adversely affect areas of revenue generation
including but not limited to student credit hours, grants and contracts, and
medical services.
7.
The
University should continue to review efficiencies to realize cost-savings.
8.
The
Budget Task Force should remain in place until the budget outlook has improved.
9.
The
University should continue to pursue appropriate state reimbursement for
indigent care provided by ECU Physicians.
10. The University should continue to pursue
appropriate state funding of the dental school.
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Faculty
Senate Meeting
April
20, 2010
NEW
BUSINESS
FACULTY
WELFARE COMMITTEE REPORT
Proposed
additional revisions to the ECU Faculty
Manual, Part V. Academic Information, Section II. Academic
Facilities, C. Emergency Action Plan
Additional
suggested revisions to Section II. C. Emergency Action Plan are
noted below in bold print. (Final action on
other revisions in Section II. Academics was taken in March 2010, FS Resolution #10-15.)
II. Academic Facilities
Revise and maintain in the Faculty Manual.
C.
Emergency Notification & Actions
The University has
established an Emergency Notification System called ECU Alert. Through
ECU Alert, the campus community is warned of dangerous situations and receive
emergency action instructions through email, pop-up box, web page, tone, text
and voice through VOIP phones, scroll bars on plasma screen displays, outdoor
speaker system, text messaging and Tweets. Faculty should establish several
ways to receive these alerts and emergency action instructions. Initial
Alerts, emergency instructions and follow-up information will be posted on line
at www.ecu.edu/alert.
Faculty must become familiar with exit routes as well as shelter-in-place
procedures for their classroom/s and building/s. Once an alert has been
issued, it is the responsibility of Deans, Department Heads and Vice
Chancellors to verify that all units have received and are following the Alert
instructions.
C. Emergency Action Plan
Once
notified of an emergency, the appropriate vice chancellor will inform the unit
heads who will notify department chairs. The department chairs are responsible
for notifying their faculty who will inform students in the classroom buildings
of the specific emergency and what actions should be taken. If the emergency is
one that requires people to stay away from the campus, the appropriate vice
chancellor will notify all faculty off campus not to
come on campus until the emergency is over.
Proposed New Section in the Faculty
Manual.
D.
Emergency Evacuation Procedures
Faculty
have responsibility for familiarizing themselves with emergency plans for their
unit and are expected to assist with and encourage complete building evacuation
whenever the fire alarm system is activated or when instructed to do so through
other means of notification. Faculty are
expected to inform students in the classroom buildings of the specific
emergency and what actions should be taken. Attempts should not be made
to fight a fire unless trained in the proper use of fire-fighting
equipment. Faculty are not expected to place
themselves in a position that will compromise their safety. Once safely
outside the building faculty should remain with their class, identifying any
missing students and provide names and any other pertinent information to ECU
Police or Greenville Fire Rescue.
Faculty
Senate Meeting
April
20, 2010
NEW
BUSINESS
FACULTY
WELFARE COMMITTEE REPORT
Proposed revisions
to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part VI.
Section VII. C.
Serious Illness and Disability Leave for Faculty Policy
Revise text and maintain in the Faculty Manual.
Revised actual policy should be relocated to the University Policy
Manual.
C. Faculty Serious Illness and Parental Leave
Policy
This policy provides leave with pay for eligible faculty for cases of serious
health conditions, maternity leave, or parental leave as defined by the Family
and Medical Leave Act. See the University Policy Manual for more
information.
C. Serious Illness and Disability Leave for Faculty Policy
The purpose of this policy
is to provide permanent faculty who do not currently earn sick leave with paid
leave for cases of a serious health condition, maternity leave, or parental
leave as defined under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The purpose of this policy is also to
coordinate leaves granted under federal and state acts such as the FMLA [29
U.S.C. § 2601, et seq.], the North Carolina Family Illness Act (NCFIA) [SB1115,
Section 28.3B], and the UNC Policy on Serious Illness and Disability Leave for
Faculty [UNC Policy 300.2.11(G)]. All
three policies cover the same serious health conditions, maternity leave or
parental leave. This policy supplements
the FMLA and NCFIA to provide for a period of paid leave rather than such leave
being unpaid. This policy does not apply to brief absences of 14 calendar days
or less that are usually accommodated informally. This policy is intended to
apply to short-term and intermediate-term disability of up to one year.
Exceptional cases may be considered by the University.All
eligible …
X. Effective Date
This policy shall become
effective immediately upon approval by the Board of Trustees of
Full
policy available online:
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/customcf/fsagenda/fsa210fwillnesspolicy.pdf
Faculty
Senate Meeting
April
20, 2010
NEW
BUSINESS
EDUCATIONAL
POLICIES AND PLANNING COMMITTEE REPORT
1. Proposal for
a Certificate
in Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Department of Geological
Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences.
2. Proposal
for a Certificate
in Community Health Center Administration, Department of Public Health, in the School
of Medicine and Department of Health Services and Information Management, in
the College of Allied Health Sciences.
3. Proposal
for a Certificate
in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Department of
English, College of Arts and Sciences.
4. Request
for discontinuation
of the Departmental Certificate in Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences.
5. Request
to add a new Special
Education Concentration to the
Master of Arts in Teaching Program, Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
College of Education.
6. Request
to add two new concentrations entitled Software Design and Development
and Software Project Management and Quality Assurance to the Master
of Science in Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science, College
of Technology and Computer Science.
7. Notification
of Intent to Plan a Master
of Science in Health Informatics and Information Management, Department of
Health Services and Information Management,
College of Allied Health Sciences.
8. Request
for Authorization
to Plan a PhD in Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, School of
Medicine.