FACULTY SENATE MINUTES

The sixth regular meeting of the Faculty Senate for the academic year 1983/84
was held on Tuesday, February 21, 1984, at 2:10 p.m. in Mendenhall Student
Center, Room 244, with James LeRoy Smith, chair, presiding. Members absent
included the following: J.O. Smith (Business). Alternates present were:
Thornton for Longhill (Business), Denny for McGee (Continuing Education),
Adler for Sayetta. (Physics), Castellow for Grossnickle (Psychology), Dewar for
Broadhurst (Technology), Thiele for Ryan (Administrative Council Rep.)

Floor privileges were granted to members of the Faculty. Affairs Committee and
to Douglas Ray, Theatre Arts.

Due to the absence of the parliamentarian, Caroline Ayers (Chemistry) was
appointed by the Chair.

Approval of the Minutes The following corrections were made to the minutes of

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January 24, 1934:

page 2, #5, line 10: substitute after comma: voting ad hoc representation
will be called for.
page 3, #14: meeting with. the Search Committee at 12:00 was with Ryan
instead of Byrd.
page 4, paragraph 4, line 2: substitute systems for services and change
informational to information

page 4, 3B: Current Faculty Assembly delegates also include Caroline
Ayers.

Agenda Item 3A: Announcements from the Chair

1. The Board of Trustees of ECU met on February 17. Several actions were
taken, including the passing without dissent of a resolution on salaries of
university personnel. Chancellor Howell had forwarded the resolution from
the Faculty Senate using the same data and broadening the "Therefore..." to
read, "Therefore, be it resolved that the East Carolina University Board of
Trustees supports a fair salary increment for faculty members and all other
university personnel for 1984-85." The Board will send the resolution to
the Board of Governors.

the recently revised gift policy statement presented by Vice Chancellor
Lanier. The Board of Trustees will meet again on April 27.

Connected with the Trustee action on Salary matters, Chancellor Howell has
thus approved Senate resolutions 84-1, -2, ~3, and -4; (the resolutions
passed January 24 which were to be sent to the Chancellor and the Faculty

Assembly.) The two respective amendments were treated as separate
resolutions, the total thus being four.

The Faculty Assembly meets February 24 in Chapel Hill. Our delegation will
take the resolution passed by this Senate to that body. The six committees
will make their reports on current items of business: Academic Freedom and
Tenure, Budget, Faculty Welfare, Governance, Planning and Programs, and

Professional Development. Our delegation will have a full report at our
March meeting.

 
4, The Phi Kappa Phi Symposium is in full swing, and the Chair encouraged
senators to attend the evening session February 21 and the session in which
papers are being given February 22. Faculty were urged to encourage
students to also attend. On February 21 Ambassador J. William Middendorf,
II, will speak on the "Risks and Possibilities for U.S. Policy in Central
America and the Caribbean."

5. Larry Webster is now Director of Computing and Information Systems, and we
extend a welcome to him and look forward to working with him.

6. The 1984 East Carolina University Spring Lecture-Seminar Series will be
held March 19, 20, and 21 with two lectures by the distinguished author,
journalist, political advisor and political analyst, Mr. Frank Mankiewicz.
Two seminars will provide opportunity for faculty and students to pursue
issues and questions ‘surrounding the Series Topic: "The Electronics
Campaign Trail: The Straws, the Primaries, and the General Election."

Professor Francis Belcik of the Department of Biology has notified the
Senate office of his "First One Man Art Show" to be held in Biology BN-109
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on February 24-25. Sixty-eight pieces are listed in
the program.

Committee on Committees is calling for faculty preference for academic and
administrative committees. Please give these your serious consideration.

9. Judy Sadler announced that the Democratic meeting to elect delegates will
be held on March 1 at 8 p.m. at respective polling places.

10.The Chair suggested that the following rules for this meeting be adopted:
1) Adjournment will be at 5 p.m. unless a motion to do otherwise is
introduced.

2) Each senator would speak no more than twice on an issue.
3) Each senator so desiring would have an opportunity to speak once on the

issue before recognizing those who wished to speak twice. These
procedural rules were adopted.

Agenda Item 3B: Election of Five Members and Chair of the Nominating
Committee for F: Faculty Senate Officers

Nominees were: Constantine Kledaras, Div. of Social Work
Bea Chauncey, Music
William Grossnickle, Psychology
Sylvene Spickerman, Nursing
Judy Sadler, Library Science

Nominations were closed. Al2 five nominees were elected by acclamation.

Nominations for Chair of the committee were: Grossnickle and Sadler.
Ballot

Grossnickle 22

Sadler 28

Total ballots 50

 
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Sadler was elected. The committee will report April 18 at the organizational
meeting. :

Agenda Item 4A: Teaching Grants Committee

Rosenfeld presented the list of 83-84 grant recipients (attached to 2/21/84
agenda). Fifteen of thirty grants were funded. The range was $100 to $1,180
with a mean of $486 per proposal. The goals of the committee for 83-84 were:
1) To call for both summer grants and regular teaching grants at one time
in February (accomplished),
2) To attempt to revise the guidelines (accomplished), and
3) To develop a rating sheet (task in progress).

Agenda Item V.B. Admissions Committee

The Chair anncunced that the Admissions Committee has unanimously endorsed
the new high school requirements for entrance into the UNC system adopted by
the Board of Governors. (These include: four units English, three units
mathematics, two units social science, three units science, and nine units
undesignated.) Mayberry (Foreign Languages) expressed concern that nothing in
the required N.C. curriculum addresses the request of the U.S. Congress to
make the curriculum more international.

Agenda Item VC. Committee on Committees

Haney (Art) presented the first reading of the revision of the Faculty
Welfare charge (see October 25, 1983, Senate minutes, resolution 83-43.)

4.A. Committee Functions:

The Faculty Welfare Committee monitors programs and policies concerned with
insurance, annuities, leaves of absence, and other fringe benefits, faculty
salaries, and all other programs and policies which affect the general welfare
of the faculty or of specific faculty members; recommends to the -Faculty

Senate new programs and policies and changes in existing programs and
policies.

The revision will be presented at the next Senate meeting for action.
Agenda Item VD. Faculty Governance Committee

1, 2, 3. Haney presented the revisions to the Codes of Theatre Arts,
Business, and Music. All were approved. (Resolution 84-5)

4, A new definition of voting faculty was proposed (Apendix bs
A voting faculty person is defined for the purposes of this code, that is,
for the purposes of all faculty voting relating to the appointment of
administrative officials, the development of unit codes, unit program
(quadrenniel) evaluations, and unit administrator (quadrenniel) evaluations
as (1) a full-time individual with an academic title or on special faculty
appointment (cf. The Code, 604 C) and (2) not less than half a normal
teaching or research program as practiced in his or her unit. The teaching—
research requirement does not apply to heads of units, libraries, the
faculty of the Counseling Center, or other University officers who may hold
tenured positions in home units. Voting rights within individual units on
matters addressed in their codes other than these referred to in this pre-

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sent document should be a topi¢ addressed in individual unit code develop-
ment. The School of Medicine and Division of Continuing Education may &
define voting faculty for the purposes of this code in accordance with their
unique structures i re to the approval of the Faculty Senate.
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Davis (Math) moved dnsertion of . . ..an academic title (or on special faculty
appointment ) in‘their second year of appointment. . . Sadler seconded the

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motion. The amendment passed. (Resolution 84-6) In addition to the

Chancellor's approval being need d, ,the Board of Trustees must also approve
this revision. amended diy. Uta appomed;
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Agenda 5D.5: New Definition of General Faculty (Appendix A)

The General Faculty shall consist of all full-time members of the teaching,
research staff who hold an academic title, including those: on special
faculty appointment (cf. The Code 604 C).

Moyer offered the amendment, ". . . full-time members of the teaching,
research, or administrative staff. . ." Hough seconded. The amendment
passed. (Resolution 64-7) The amended resolution was approved. [Chair's note
of 3/6/84: Constitutional Amendments require two readings before the Senate

for final approval. Thus, the amended amendment will be an agenda item March
27, 1984.]

Agenda Item 5E: Agenda Committee

Larry Hough (Political Science) presented the recommendation of dates for Ed

the Faculty Senate and the Agenda Committee for 1984-85 (attached to 2/24/84
agenda). Their recommendation was approved., (Resolution 84-8)

Agenda Item 5F: Faculty Affairs (Report of the Faculty Affairs Committee
Relative to REmoving the Six-Year Restriction on Non-Tenure Track Positions. )

Ione Ryan, chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee, presented the report of
the Faculty Affairs Committee (available in Senate Office) and moved for

adoption of the following section at this time:

The Faculty Affairs Committee recommends that the Faculty Senate formally
1. endorse the position taken by the AAUP in its 1978 statement, a position

which was recently sanctioned by the General Faculty Task Force of the
Planning Commission of East Carolina University:

All persons appointed to full-time teaching positions at East
Carolina University should either be tenured at the time of initial
appointment or recipients of tenure upon the successful completion of
an appropriate probationary period--save only those who are visitors,
temporary replacements, or for whose disciplines the institution in
good faith expects to have only a short-term need.

"Short-term" should mean usually two or three years, but under no
circumstances, should exceed six years.

 
ae The final statement would then read:

All persons appointed to full-time teaching positions at East
Carolina University should either be tenured at the time of initial
appointment or recipients of tenure upon the successful completion of
an appropriate probationary period--save only those who are visitors,
temporary replacements, or for whose disciplines the institution in
good faith expects to have only a short-term need. "Short-term"
should mean usually two or three years, but under ne circumstances
should exceed six years.

The Chair read several written statements received in the Senate office
regarding this issue. Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Medical School Laupus
read a statement in relation to an amendement he would introduce. (Copies of
these are available in the Senate Office.)

Adler offered a substitute motion:

Revise the final statement (see page 5) to read:
All persons appointed to permanent full-time teaching positions at
East Carolina University should either be tenured at the time of
initial appointment or eligible for tenure upon the successful
completion of an appropriate probationary period. Any full-time
state-supported position which exists (or is planned to exist) within
a given unit for more than six continuous years normally will be
considered to be permanent and, as such, subject to the restrictions
me of this paragraph.

Hough seconded the motion. Adler's substitute motion failed.
Laupus offered the following amendgment to the original motion:

WHEREAS, the School of Medicine requires the use of active clinicians
‘to carry out its mandate to provide medical education and
medical care to this region; and

WHEREAS, these clinicians may be burdened with clinical teaching and
service responsibilities to the degree that. they cannot
pursue active research programs; and

WHEREAS, the University values these experienced physicians and the
access to patients which they provide;

BE IT RESOLVED, that the report of the Faculty Affairs Committee
relative to removing the six-year restriction on non-tenure-
track positions:

- All persons appointed to full-time teaching positions at
East Carolina University should either be tenured at the
time of initial appointment or recipients of tenure upon the
successful completion of an appropriate probationary
period--save only those who are visitors, temporary

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replacements, or for whose disciplines the insitution in

good faith expects to have only a short-term need. .."Short-
term" should mean usually two or three vears, but under no

eparmercemnien mes meet six years.

be amended with mes addition of pone following sentence:

In the School of Medicine, pee reninn faculty in clinical
disciplines. may be reappointed by. the Vice Chancellor and
Dean of that. school for continuing. terms of one to: five
years. :

Concern was’ raised that this amendment might apply..to other: schools with»
clinical disciplines (e. Bs, Nursing, Allied Health).

Pories offered a substitute niin te: to: the resolved" section. of the amendment:

In schools with clinical disciplines, non-tenured faculty in such
positions may be reappointed by the appropriate vice chancellor and
dean for continuing: terms. of one to: five years.

Muzzarelli seconded Pories! amendment. ‘The revision to the amendment was
_approved.:- (Resolution 84-9).The revised‘ amendment was adopted. (Resolution
84-10) ; é ; : ;

Since it was 5 pss, Adler. moved that the vote on the main motion be deferred
to the next: meeting (March 27):.. .Castellow seconded the motion. The motion Ey

carried. The main motion is:

All persons appointed to full-time: teaching positions at East Carolina
University should either be tenured at the time of initial appointment or
recipients. of tenure upon the’ successful completion of an appropriate
probationary period--save only those who are visitors, temporary replace-
ments, or:for whose disciplines the insitution in good faith expects to
have only.a short-term need. . "Short-term" should mean’ usually two or
three years, but under no circumstances should: exceed six years.

In schools with clinical disciplines, non-tenured faculty in such
positions may. be reappointed by the appropriate.vice chancellor and dean
for. continuing: terms of one to five years.

Agenda Item VI. Discussion of eugene smoking adn ‘ips ‘deferred.

The meeting adjourned ats 5:05 p.m.

Martha: K. Engelke : Helen R. Broaddus
Secretary of the Faculty Office Sec. of F.S.

 
Resolutions passed February 21, 1984, by Senate:

84-5 Codes of Theatre Arts, Business and Music

84-6 Davis' amendment to Definition of voting faculty

84-7 Meyer's amendment of Definition of general faculty
1984~1985 meeting dates of Senate and Agenda Committee

84-9 Pories' amendment to Faculty Affairs Report

84-10 Amended amendment approved (re Faculty Affairs Report)

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