PROPOSED FACULTY BYLAWS
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FACULTY BYLAWS
ARTICLE III
1.
ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES
Title B. Faculty Senate
3. Representation. Representation shall be by academic unit and
by academic sub-unit.
b. Election
of senators shall be by academic unit in non-departmentalized units, and by
academic sub-unit in departmentalized units.
Administrative officers with concurrent academic rank shall be counted
as members of the respective academic units or sub-units to which they have
been assigned, and are eligible for election as senators. Units
or sub-units having at least 5 and fewer than 11 members shall elect one
senator. Units or sub-units having at
least 11 12 but
no more than 19 members shall elect 2 senators.
Units or sub-units having more than 19 but no more than 27 members shall
elect 3 senators. Units or sub-units
having more than 27 but no more than 35 members shall elect 4 senators. Units or sub-units having more than 35
members shall elect 5 senators. (Approved by faculty in
mail ballot in November 2007) Units or sub-units having fewer than 5 members
may elect one senator or may, by mutual agreement, combine with another
sub-unit for the purpose of representation on the Faculty Senate. If either option is chosen, the sub-unit must
notify the Secretary of the Faculty Senate, in writing, of its decision to
exercise this option; this notification must be given prior to the next
scheduled election. (See Article III.B.6.b.
below.) Such sub-units that do not
choose one of these options will not be represented on the Faculty Senate. (See Article I.h. above.) (Approved by
faculty in mail ballot in December 2004)
ARTICLE VII
2.
FACULTY PERSONNEL POLICIES
Title B. Initiating
Personnel Committees
3. Types
and Composition of Initiating Personnel Committees.
a. Personnel
Committees of Academic Subdivisions.
All departments, non- departmentalized Schools, Health, Physical
Education and Athletics, and the Library shall have a Junior and Senior
Personnel Committee.
b. Minimum Size. The
minimum size of an IPC shall be five voting members.
c. Membership
of Senior Personnel Committees. All
full professors on continuing appointment shall serve on the Senior Personnel
Committee to consider cases of professors and associate professors, except when
their own case is being considered.
Bartle Professors holding the title of full professor who agree to serve
on this committee during a given academic year, and within a five-year limit
from the date of appointment as Bartle Professor, shall do so. (Approved by
faculty in mail ballot in April 1997) In instances where five were three
members of the Senior Personnel Committee cannot be drawn from within the
academic subdivision, the committee shall be constituted to provide a majority of minimum of
three from a combination of full and associate professors from
within that academic subdivision who are on continuing appointment with at
least two semesters of academic service at this University; the associate
professors to be elected by the faculty of the academic subdivision; the
remaining seats to be filled by full professors from other academic
subdivisions at this University appointed by the Provost after consultation
with the faculty of the academic subdivision in which the case is being heard
and the appropriate UPC (see Title D).
The Committee shall be formed by the Provost after consultation with the
faculty of the academic subdivision in which the case is being heard when the
inclusion of the sum of full and associate professors eligible to serve is fewer less
than three.
Title D.
The All-University Personnel Committee
3.
2. Conditions
of Service. Only voting faculty
on continuing appointment and holding the rank of associate or full professor,
including Bartle Professors in those titles who agree to serve within the
five-year limit stipulated in Article I.e. above (Voting Faculty), (Approved by faculty in mail ballot in April 1997) shall be eligible to serve on the AUPC.
No Chairperson, ,
or Director shall be eligible to serve on the AUPC. No member of the AUPC shall participate in the
review, of
or nor read files, on a case emanating from his/her academic sub-unit
(or unit when no sub-unit exists) (Approved
by faculty in mail ballot in February 1989) or from a unit in
which he/she has previously served heard as a member of an IPC. Members will be elected for two-year terms,
and no member shall serve two consecutive terms. Approximately one-half of the members shall
be elected in each academic year. No
member of the AUPC shall be required to serve on any standing committee of
the Faculty Senate. When any member
of the AUPC resigns or can no longer serve, his/her unexpired term shall be
filled by the person who received receives the next highest number of votes in the
previous election.