Minutes of Faculty Council Meeting

20 November 1998 - 12:00 noon

A227 Abercrombie Laboratory

Present: Wilson (speaker), Aranda, Caldwell, Driskill, Gibson, Meade, Patten, Yunis. Guest: David Auston. Absent: Akin, Bayazitoglu, Cox, Dharan, Ghorbel, Rea, Wittenberg.

The agenda consisted of: (1) Guidelines for Faculty Appointments, Promotion, Tenure and Renewal of Contracts.

(1) Guidelines for Faculty Appointments, Promotion, Tenure and Renewal of Contracts: David Auston accepted CouncilÕs invitation to attend its meeting in order to discuss two specific issues: (a) the deanÕs authority to prevent a departmentÕs recommendation from going forward to P&T, and (b) the solicitation of opinions other than those gathered by the department. It was the opinion of Council that in the interest of fairness to the candidate, and to insure the utmost in proper procedure, that any case approved by a department for promotion or tenure should go forward to P&T whether the dean is or is not in agreement with the departmentÕs recommendation. With regard to additional material solicited for the dossier, the following conclusions were reached. In the case of letters solicited from individual faculty members in the candidateÕs department, these letters would be included in the dossier but held in confidence from the department itself. In the case of letters from outside the department, whether solicited or not, copies would be furnished to the department for comment if it so desired. After considerable discussion, during which all participants had an opportunity to voice their concerns, Auston agreed to get back to Council at a future date.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:15 p.m.

Joan Reid,

Secretary

The Report on Faculty Salaries and Compensation, mentioned in the Minutes of the 10 November Faculty Council Meeting is attached.