ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FACULTY GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

Date: May 28, 1984
To: James LeRoy Smith, Chair of the Faculty
From: Robert Woodside, Chair

Membership of the committee (including ex officio members)
Robert Woodside, Mathematics

Judy Sadler, Library Science (Vice Chair)

Art Haney, Art (Secretary)

Michael Bassman, Foreign Languages and Literatures
James Buck, Business ;

Pat Daugherty, Biology

Eldean Pierce, Nursing

Angelo Volpe, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Caroline Ayers, past Chair of the Faculty

James LeRoy Smith

Committee meetings

August 23, 1983 Organizational meeting
September 9 (Stella Daugherty attended for JL Smith)
September 30 (Ayers, Smith, Sadler, Buck)
October 21 (Daugherty, Buck)

November 11 (Ayers)

November 18 (Bassman)

January 20, 1984 (Buck)

February 3 (Buck, Pierce)

February 10 (Smith, Buck, Pierce)
February 17 (Volpe, Smith, Ayers, Sadler)
March 16 (Buck)

March 30 (Volpe, Buck)

Dates of reports to the Faculty Senate during the year
October 25, 1983

December 6

February 21, 1984

March 27

April 17

No instructions given to the conmittee by the Faculty Senate other than
those found in the committee's organizatiunal charge,

The committee is formally organized and conducts business using
Robert's Rules of Order. Among other activities, the committee was
charged with consideration of the charges made in various unit codes
because of the adoption of Appendix C. In cases where there was a
question about a unit code, a representative of the unit was invited to
meet with the committee and discuss the changes in their codes. A
subcommittee (Sadler, Haney) was appointed to discuss with Chancellor
Howell any references to salary recommendations that might be included
in unit codes. Another subcommittee (Sadler, Haney and.Bassman) was
appointed to draft a proposal on the definition of voting faculty in

 
Apendices A and L. A third subcommittee (Bassman, Daugherty) Was —
appointed to draft’ a recommendation on faculty voting on constitutional &
changes.

Committee accomplishments :

Sent the following unit codes back to units along with the
committee's suggestions for changes. (All were later revised by the
respective units, resubmitted to the committee and approved.)

Nursing 9/30/83

Theatre Arts 9/30/83, 1/20/84
Home Economies 10/21/83
Continuing Education 2/3/84

Approved and sent to the Senate the following revised codes:
Aerospace 9/9/83

Technology 10/21

Nursing 11/11

Counseling Center 11/11

History 11/11

Business 2/3/84

Music 2/3

Theatre Arts 2/10

Foreign Languages and Literatures 2/17
Home Economies 2/17

Continuing Education 3/16

Library Science 3/30

Approved and sent to Senate a change in the Senate By-Laws that would
allow a unit which is entitled to more than one senator to elect a
second alternate.

Approved and sent to the Faculty Senate the docutent on Patents and
Copyrights.

Approved and sent to the Senate an amendment to the Faculty Senate
Constitution that would clarify the definition of the General Faculty.

Approved and sent to the Senate an amendment to Appendix L changing the
definition of a voting faculty person.

Approved and sent to the Senate an amendement to Appendix D that would
direct that a unit chairperson not participate in a faculty vote on
personnel matters. (This proposal was later withdrawn from the
Senate because of anticipated problems in amending Appendix D. A

Similar stated resolution was then approvved and sent to the Faculty
Senate. ;

VIII. Citation of resolution number's that originated with the committee:
83=41, -50, -51; 84-5, -6, -11, -7; =15, ~18, -20A, -25, ~26, -27, -28.

IX. Consideration of the remaining unit codes.

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X. Structure, duties and functions of committee: satisfactory. Personnel:
excellent.

XI. No suggestions for improving the effectiveness of the conmittee.