CHARGES TO
THE FRPR COMMITTEE FOR FY-04
1. Review University policies related to
the rights and responsibilities of the faculty, including the following general
areas:
a.
Appointments, promotions, granting of tenure, and non-reappointment,
b.
Merit evaluations, rewards, and sabbatical leaves,
c. Protection of the faculty's right
to privacy.
Insure that all current policy
statements regarding these matters are adequate, appropriate, and readily
available to all faculty.
2. Consider any individual inquiry
involving faculty rights, privileges, and/or responsibilities.
3. Initiate contact with representatives
of the AAUP regarding any concerns they might have relating to faculty rights,
privileges, and responsibilities.
4. Through consultation with the Office of
the Provost, monitor compliance with Sections 7.3.1, 7.3.2, and 7.3.3 of the
Faculty Senate Rules and Regulations concerning maintenance of confidential
faculty files.
5. Submit to FacEx: a) approved minutes of
each meeting (minutes must be kept), b) recommendations for action as they are
approved by the committee, and c) a final report by April 1, 2004. The final
report should make clear what was done about each of the charges to the
committee and make recommendations to FacEx for action. The report should also
provide the names of the committee's members and include suggestions for
charges to next year's committee.
Additional
Charges
6. Review University policies and
practices in regard to the appointment and evaluation, merit and otherwise, of
non-tenure track faculty. Continue to
work with the Office of the Provost to clearly and uniformly define the term
"other instructors".
Continue to explore the trend of hiring more non-tenure track faculty,
with particular focus on its effects on traditional University staffing
traditions and its teaching, research, and service functions.
7. Continue the discussion of Program
Restructuring that was begun last year.
Review the recommendation made by the O&A committee. Forward your recommendations to FacEx.
8. Continue review of the 1/4/02 memo from
Associate Dean Carl Strikwerda regarding proposed changes to the Faculty
Senate Rules on review of chairpersons.
Meet with Dean Strikwerda and FacEx to discuss the proposed changes once
more. Review governance regulations
concerning appointment and reappointment of chairs. Are there conditions under which it appropriate for a university
administrator to violate such regulations?
9. Determine
the extent and impact of recent and anticipated faculty retirements, including
phased retirements, upon academic units. (See attached rationale)
Rationale
for Charge #9 from Lloyd Sponholtz:
As an example, in the history
department, as many as one-third of the faculty will have retired in the decade
ending in 2009. Some sub-units of the department (medieval history) have been
devastated; and others (Russian and Eastern European history) have faculty all
of whom are of retirement age. Permanent replacements are delayed even further
by phased retirements. Is the situation in history a unique case, or is the
problem more pervasive?