CHARGES TO THE FRPR COMMITTEE FOR
FY-05
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. Work with the Provost's office to
maintain records of the hiring frequencies of lecturers and other non-tenure
track appointments across units.
Records should allow for the determination of whether hiring for
non-tenured positions might offset or reduce the number of tenured or
tenure-track faculty.
6. 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, 2005. 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 include suggestions for charges to next
year's committee.
Additional Charges
7. Review
non-tenure track classifications across the University in teaching, research,
and service and make recommendations to FacEx for uniform policies. Monitor the implementation of the newly
established policy on Lecturer positions and other non-tenure track appointments. 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. Determine if the causes that have contributed to the recent
increase in non-tenure track appointments are internal to the University or
reflect regional or national trends.
Present concerns raised by this study to FacEx for discussion with the
Provost and with the Board of Regents.
8. Determine the extent and impact of recent and
anticipated faculty retirements, including phased retirements, upon academic
units. (See attached rationale) Continue to work with the Provost's office to obtain
information about hiring plans for replacement hires. Determine if specific academic units might be particularly
impacted by faculty retirement in the near future and report findings and
recommendation to FacEx.
Rationale for Charge #8 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?