Meeting Minutes
University Policy Committee for
Faculty Affairs
Meeting Minutes: May 17, 2005
(Draft pending approval at September, 2005 meeting)
PRESENT Paul Jay, Chair, Beverly Kasper, Chris Manning, Ken
Olsen,
Hank Rose
Introductory Matters:
The Chair called the meeting to order at 9:55.
A call for approval of Minutes of 4/22/05 was approved unanimously.
Old Business:
Appeal & Grievance Process: There was a call for further suggestions. Some
slight language changes were offered.
Question: should librarians be included as a section from which to elect
members of the Appeals Committee? Yes, if librarians are also eligible to
use the appeal and grievance procedures. But that seems unclear. It was
noted that librarians are listed in the Faculty Titles document as full-time
faculty "with limited status." The committee agreed unanimously to
interpret the "Applicability' clause of the grievance and appeal procedures
as applying to librarians with faculty status, and therefore to include this
group as a voting block for purposes of electing members to the appeal and
grievance committee.
Question: For now, are faculty of the School of Communication, Technology
and Human Services also included as members of the faculty of CAS? If so,
should they, for now, be a separate category? Or should that await the
separate incorporation of the new school? The group concluded that these
issues should be clarified; but that faculty should be represented only
once.
The plan is to post the draft for general faculty comment in the fall.
New Business:
Proposal for Expanded Campus Security. Phil Kosiba and Bernie Ward made a
presentation and answered questions. After a thorough discussion the
committee agreed to support the proposed plan, but directed the chair to
communicate to Mr. Kosiba and Mr. Ward its concern that in the
implementation process due consideration be given to student and faculty
rights, and to preservation of a relaxed and open environment conducive to
scholarly pursuits.
Tuition Remission Benefits Plan. Tom Kelly made a presentation. He
explained that this issue had been assigned by UCC to the Budget & Finance
UPC. But B&F had consulted with this group at the beginning and had
promised to return with their product, before delivering it to the
president. Dialogue ensued.
Resolved: that the Faculty Affairs UPC approves and endorses the Tuition
Remission Benefit Policy as crafted by the Budget and Finance UPC. (Vote:
6-0-0).
Resolved: that the Faculty Affairs UPC commends and thanks Paul Jay for his
skillful, conscientious, and gracious leadership over the last two years,
taking note of the degree to which his contribution has helped to define how
the UPC approach can benefit the entire University. (Vote: 6-0-0)
The Chair thanked all the members for their work. And in particular thanked
the members whose term now ends: Isiaah Crawford and Hank Rose.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:02.