FACULTY SENATE The first regular meeting of the Faculty Senate for the academic year 1984/85 will be held on Tuesday, September 18, 1984, at 2:10 p.m. in Mendenhall Student Center, Room 221. AGENDA I. Call to Order II. Approval of Minutes of April 17 and 18, 1984. III. Special Order of the Day A. Announcements B. Elections: 1. Replacement for Martha Engelke, Committee on Committees 2. Due Process, Hearing and Reconsideration Committees C. Discussion of On-Line Registration and Registration/Drop-Add, Fall, 1984 (Gil Moore) Unfinished Business Rescheduling of Change of Major and Preregistration for Spring Semester 1985 to October 1-12 and October 812, 1984, respectively. Report of Committees New Business DUE PROCESS COMMITTEE (Senators will be given a list of tenured faculty members at the meeting.) & 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 discharge him/her, the faculty member may request a hearing before the Due Process Committee. The hearing deals only with those written specifications for 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 discreation, may allow. The faculty member has the right of appealing the committee's decision. Current members: (Number to be elected: three.) Lawrence Hough, Political Science 1985 Ione Ryan, Counseling Center 1985 5 1985 1986 1986 Donald Sexauer, Art Eldean Pierce, Nursing Trenton Davis, Allied Health Current Alternates: (No. to be elected: two.) Fred Ragan, History Robert Schellenberger, Business Pat Garton, Allied Health Alternates whose terms are expiring: James Wirth, Mathematics Virginia McGrath, 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. 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 impremissible 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: (No. to be elected: two) Miriam Quick, Nursing Judy Sadler, Library Science 1986 Mary Fowler, Education 1986 . 1987 1987 Members whose terms are expiring: Mary Jo Bratton, History 1984 Donald Sexauer, Art 1984 ores Alternates: (No. to be elected: three) Floyd Read, Science Education 1985 Brain Harris, Foreign Languages 1986 1986 1987 1987 Alternates whose terms are expiring or who have resigned: Marsha Ironsmith, Psychology David Sanders, English Deborah Panson, Business (resigned) 1984 1984 1986 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 j inati j research, or public service 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 e presented at the hearing and»need consider only the evidence offered that it considers fair and-reliable. | Current Members: (No, to be elected: two) Stella Daugherty,. Mathematics William Grossnickle, Psychology Mary Kirkpatrick, Nursing Members whose ‘terms expire: Robert Morrison, Chemistry Sandra Wurth-Hough, Political Science Current Alternates: (No. to be elected: three) Bea Chauncey, Music Robbie Edwards, Nursing Walter Calhoun, History Robert Woodside, Mathematics Art Haney, Art (ineligible)