Faculty Committees
Faculty Grievance Hearing Committee (three-year term)
Terry Cole |
Professor |
COM |
2010 |
Ken Muir |
Associate Professor |
SOC |
2010 |
Hugh Hindman |
Professor |
MGT |
2009 |
Kevin Howell |
Assistant Professor |
TEC |
2009 |
Margot Olson |
Associate Professor |
TEC |
2009 |
William Irwin (Alternate)
|
Assistant Professor |
LRE |
2009 |
The Faculty Grievance Hearing Committee shall each be composed
of five (5) members and one (1) alternate to be elected by the faculty. Membership
on the committees shall be apportioned by academic rank as
follows:
Two (2) professors;
Two (2) associate professors;
One (1) assistant professor;
One (1) alternate.
The Committee shall elect
their own chairperson and recorder.
Candidates shall be elected to three-year terms. Old
terms end and new terms begin on August 15. Elected members
of the Committee shall be eligible for renomination and re-election. Promotion
during term of office will not remove one from membership on
the committee.
In the event a vacancy should occur on the Committee during
the academic year, the Chair of the Faculty Senate shall nominate
an individual holding the appropriate rank to fill the unexpired
term. The Chair of the Faculty Senate shall take into
consideration equitable apportionment of the Committee's membership
among the various colleges/schools. Such nominations
of the Chair of the Faculty Senate must be approved by a two-thirds
(2/3) majority vote of the Faculty Senate.
Faculty Grievance Assistance Committee (two-year term)
| Stella Anderson |
MGT |
2009 |
| Sandie Gravett |
P&R |
2009 |
| Ray Russell |
CS |
2009 |
| Faculty |
|
Vacant |
The Faculty Grievance Assistance Committee shall consist of four
(4) members who each shall have served on a Faculty Due Process Committee or a Faculty
Grievance Committee, but are not currently members of the Faculty Due Process Committee or
the Faculty Grievance Committee. The term of membership shall be two years; provided that the
first committee members shall have staggered terms with two members serving two-year terms and two members serving one-year terms. The committee members shall be appointed by the Faculty Senate according to customary Faculty Senate procedures.
The Faculty Grievance Assistance Committee exists to advise the faculty member about the preparation of the case for hearing by the Faculty Due Process or the Faculty Grievance Committee, to answer the faculty member's questions about the process of grievance, or to be available as a source of information for the faculty member during the grievance process. Please refer to Chapter III, Section 3.9 in the Faculty Handbook for further information.
Faculty Due Process Committee (Permanent Tenure, three-year term)
| Chip Arnold |
ENG |
2010 |
| Faculty |
Vacant |
2010 |
| William Atkinson |
ENG |
2009 |
| Kenneth Muir |
SOC |
2009 |
| Hugh Hindman |
MGT |
2008 |
| Alternate |
Vacant |
2010 |
The Faculty Due Process Committee conducts formal, adversarial hearings in which parties to a dispute may present evidence designed to establish their respective positions, to the end that the committee may make findings of fact and attendant recommendations for proper resolution of the dispute. Please refer to Chapter III, Section 3.8 in the Faculty Handbook for further information.
The quality and credibility of University dispute
resolution procedures are enhanced by the participation of
faculty committees. That members of both the Faculty Due Process
Committee and the Faculty Grievance Committee are elected by
their colleagues rather than appointed signifies a collegial
approach to resolving disputes.
Each of the two committees (Faculty Due Process Committee and the Faculty Grievance Committee) shall be composed of five members and an alternate, all to
be elected by the faculty. Nomination and election shall follow
procedures for other at-large faculty elections.
Membership
of the Faculty Due Process Committee shall be composed of faculty
with permanent tenure, regardless of rank.
Membership of the
Faculty Grievance Committee shall be apportioned by academic
rank, as follows:
Two (2) professors;
Two (2) associate professors
and:
One (1) assistant professor
each of whom should preferably
be a member of a department different from those of the others.
The alternate member of the Faculty Grievance Committee may
hold any of the foregoing ranks but may not be a member of
the same department as any other member of the committee.
The
term of office of a member of either committee shall be three
years (provided that the first election shall be for staggered
terms, with two persons to be elected to three-year terms, two
persons to be elected to two-year terms, and one person to
be elected to a one-year term); the alternate shall be elected
to a three-year term; as the respective terms of the first
class of committee members expire, their successors shall be
elected to regular three-year terms.
In the event a
vacancy should occur in the membership of a committee during
the academic year, the chair of the Faculty Senate shall designate
a person holding the appropriate rank to fill the unexpired
term. The chair of the Faculty Senate shall take into consideration
equitable apportionment of committee membership among the various
colleges/schools. Such designations by the chair of the Faculty
Senate are subject to approval by a two-thirds vote of the
Faculty Senate. The alternate shall attend committee
meetings but shall not vote except as a replacement for a regular
member. No committee member shall participate in an inquiry
if that person holds appointment in the aggrieved faculty member's
department, participated directly in the decision or action
questioned by the grievance, or has any other substantial conflict
of interest. No officer of administration, including departmental
chairs or directors of administrative units, shall be eligible
to serve on such a committee.
