University Governance

 

CHARGES TO THE STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES FOR
PROMOTION AND TENURE COMMITTEE
FOR FY-09

FacEx approved 6/25/08
Date approved by FacEx:9/11/08

• Contact FacEx chair Nancy Kinnersley, (kinners@eecs.ku.edu), for further information or to schedule a meeting with FacEx to discuss recommendations for action on the charges.
• Minutes of each meeting should be e-mailed to the Governance Office (govern@ku.edu) as soon as they are approved.  The minutes will be posted to the Governance web site.
• If the committee is recommending a change to university policy or rules, FacEx must officially receive that recommendation by March 17, 2009 in order to meet timeline requirements for full review by Governance.
• A final report on the committee’s actions on each of the charges, as well as the committee’s recommendations for FY 09 charges and membership, should be e-mailed to the Governance Office (govern@ku.edu) by April 1, 2009.

STANDING CHARGES

1.  Review department and school criteria and procedures for promotion and tenure pursuant to section 6.3.5.1 of the Faculty Senate Rules and Regulations for consistency with the requirements of Article VI of the rules and regulations, and approve criteria, guidelines and procedures that are consistent with those requirements.  Identify inconsistencies and coordinate with the Provost’s office to provide feedback to departments, the College, schools, and other administrative units to correct problems.  Submit  issues that cannot be resolved to FacEx as provided in section 6.3.5.1 (ongoing).

2. Review guidelines and forms developed by the Provost, and procedures developed by the UCPT pursuant to 6.3.5.2 for consistency with the requirements of Article VI of the rules and regulations, and identify problems or concerns.  Provide comments to the Provost and UCPT, and report issues that cannot be resolved to FacEx as provided in section 6.3.5.2 (ongoing).

3.  Promote and facilitate compliance with the standards and procedural requirements of Article VI of the Faculty Senate Rules and Regulations by maintaining and disseminating guidance documents for departments, the College, schools, and other administrative units (ongoing).

4.  Monitor the implementation of the new Faculty Senate Rules and Regulations concerning Promotion and Tenure.  Identify issues and problems as they arise and report recommendations to FacEx as needed (ongoing).

SPECIFIC CHARGES

1.  In relation to standing charge 2, above, review the newest forms and guidelines from the Provost’s Office and determine if standards not already in FSRR are included in those documents, and if so, whether those standards should be included in FSRR.  Report recommendations to FacEx by November 3, 2008.
 
2.  Draft procedures to be used in conducting the reviews of units’ revised policies and procedures.   Submit the procedures to FacEx for discussion by November 3, 2008.

3.   Study the report and recommendations of the Task Force on Teaching and Learning to identify language that could serve as standards for teaching.  Determine if such language and other recommendations should be added to FSRR.    Report recommendations to FacEx by February 16, 2009.

4.  Review Initiative 2015 to determine if implementation of the recommendations therein will require modification of the Promotion and Tenure standards or of evaluation guidelines.  Report recommendations to FacEx as needed (ongoing)