. FACULTY SENATE

The first regular meeting of the Faculty Senate for the academic year

1981/82 will be held on Tuesday, September 22, 1981, at 2:10 p.m. in

Room 221, Mendenhall Student Center.

AGENDA

Call to Order
Approval of the Minutes
Special Order of the Day
A. Announcements
B. Annual Report of Faculty Assembly (Robert Hursey)
C. Elections
1. Due Process Committee (Appendix D, Section V,E.)
(see attachment)
2. Hearing Committee (Appendix D, Section IV, C.)
(see attachment)

3. Reconsideration Committee (Appendix D, Section VI, B.)
(see attachment)

D. Planning Commission Report (Henry Ferrell)
Unfinished Business

A. East Carolina University Code (See attachments: ECU Code and copy
of letter from Chancellor Brewer)

Report of Committees

A. Student Scholarships, Fellowships and Financial Aid Committee
(Doug Kruger)

New Business

 
Agenda Item 3C: Elections for Following Committees

i.

2.

Due Process Committee

The Due Process Committee guarantees that a tenured faculty member
may not be discharged or suspended from employment without good and
just cause. The Committee consists of five members and five alternates,
all of whom must be members of the regular teaching faculty who hold
permanent tenure.

Within ten days of receipt of the notice from the Chancellor or
his delegate of intention to dischargehim/her, the faculty member may
request a hearing before the Due Process Committee.

The hearing deals only with those written specifications for ate
reasons of the intended discharge or suspension. In reaching its decision,

the committee shall consider only evidence presented at the hearing and
such written and oral arguments as the committee, in its discretion, may
allow. The faculty member has the right of appealing the committee's
decision.

Current members:
wurrent members

Carolyn Bolt, Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Robert Hursey, Mathematics

Members whose terms are expiring:

Trenton Davis, Allied Health
Lawrence Hough, Political Science
Jo Ann Jones, English

Current alternates:

Sally Brett, English
Jack Thornton, Economics

Alternates whose terms are expiring:

Caroline Ayers, Chemistry
Anne Briley, Library Services
Joe Davis, Mathematics

Hearing Committee

The Hearing Committee guarantees to nontenured faculty members
the right of a hearing concerning an unfavorable action resulting in
nonreappointment or nonconferral of permanent tenure.

 
Hearing Committee continued
The Hearing Committee is composed of five members and five

alternates who are full-time faculty members without administrative
appointment.

Within five days after receiving notice of an unfavorable action
concerning nonreappointment or nonconferral of permanent tenure
resulting from the conference with the Chancellor, the faculty member
may request a hearing before the Faculty Hearing Committee

The Hearing Committee's review of the faculty member's case shall
be limited solely to determining whether the decision not to reappoint
or confer permanent tenure was based upon any of the grounds stated to

be impermissible in Section 604B of The Code of the University of
North Carolina.

The Hearing Committee shall consider the written request and
grant a hearing if it determines that (a) the request contains a
contention that the decision was based upon impermissible grounds
under Section 604B of The Code and that (b) the facts suggested,
if established, will support the contention.

Current members:

Carl Adler, Physics
Y.J. Lao, Allied Health
Judith Sadler, Library Science.

Members whose terms are expiring:.

Myree Hayes, Psychology
Don Ensley, Allied Health

Current alternates:

Charles McDonald, Biology
Ed Powers, Business
Donald Sexauer, Art

Alternates whose terms are expiring:

Martin Lutz, Psychology
Floyd Read, Science Education

3. Reconsideration Committee

This committee guarantees the right of tenured and nontenured
faculty members to a hearing on termination of employment due to
financial exigency or major curtailment or elimination of a teaching,
research, or public service program. Bi

 
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The membership of the committee is composed of five members and
five alternates who are full-time faculty members without administrative

rank.

If a faculty member makes a written request within ten days after
receiving notice of termination of employment, the Chancellor or his
delegate shall insure that the hearing is accorded before a standing
committee of the Faculty Senate, the Committee on Reconsideration
of Faculty-Program Termination Decisions. The committee may consider
only such evidence as is presented at the hearing and need consider
only the evidence offered that it considers fair and reliable.

Current members:

Y¥.J. Lao, Allied Health
Malcolm South, English
Karen Hancock

_Members whose terms expire:

Stella Daugherty, Mathematics
Robert Irwin, Music

Current Alternates:

Art Haney, Art
Joseph Hill, Marketing and Management

Artemis Kares, Library Services

Alternates whose terms expire:

James Hix, Chemistry
Sandra Wurth-Hough, Political Science