CHARGES TO THE FRPR COMMITTEE FOR FY-06
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. Determine
how to inform faculty of their intellectual property and copyright rights,
including the authority to limit or deny access to their intellectual property
by electronic means such as cameras and tape recorders in their classrooms.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Submit
to FacEx: a) approved minutes of each meeting, b) recommendations for action as
they are approved by the committee, and c) a final report by April 1, 2006. 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
8. 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.
9. 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 #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?