Transcript Faculty Governance: - Indiana University

Faculty Governance:
The Hows and Whys
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First-• My story of involvement in faculty
governance
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The Plan for Our Time Together
• Why Shared Governance is important
• Organization of Faculty Governance at
– IU
– IUPUI
– Academic Units
• Examples of current issues at each level
• Faculty Rights and Responsibilities,
including Review Functions of the Faculty
• Your Questions
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Shared Governance
• Complex organizations, such as universities,
need some form of governance which according
to Webster's Dictionary has the aim of keeping in
a straight course or smooth operation for the
good of the individual and the whole of the
organization.
• Shared governance requires informed
participation and collaboration by faculty,
students, staff, and administrators.
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Shared Governance
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities
– http://www.aaup.org/statements/Redbook/Govern.htm
• “The faculty has primary responsibility for
such fundamental areas as curriculum,
subject matterand methods of instruction,
research, faculty status, and those aspects
of student life which relate to the
educational process.”
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Why you should be involved
• Altruism
• Requirement in the Service area of Faculty
responsibility
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IUPUI Dean of the Faculties’ Guidelines for Preparing and
Reviewing Promotion and Tenure Dossiers 2005-2006, p 15
http://www.academicaffairs.iupui.edu/pdf/promotionandtenureguidelines.pdf
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Why you should be involved
• Altruism
• Requirement in the Service area of Faculty
responsibility
• Visibility for School/Unit
• Visibility for self
• Influence the direction of the University
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AAUP Statement on Government of
Colleges and Universities
• The faculty has primary responsibility for such fundamental areas as
curriculum, subject matter and methods of instruction,
research, faculty status, and those aspects of student life which
relate to the educational process. On these matters the power of
review or final decision lodged in the governing board or delegated
by it to the president should be exercised adversely only in
exceptional circumstances, and for reasons communicated to the
faculty. It is desirable that the faculty should, following such
communication, have opportunity for further consideration and
further transmittal of its views to the president or board. Budgets,
personnel limitations, the time element, and the policies of
other groups, bodies, and agencies having jurisdiction over the
institution may set limits to realization of faculty advice.
– (emphasis added)
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• Websites
– http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/
– http://www.indiana.edu/~ufc/
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UFC Current Issues
General Education at Indiana University
• Follow the University Faculty Council's
discussions on general education for
Indiana University baccalaureate degrees.
This page contains current drafts for
discussion and will be updated frequently
with new resources related to general
education.
• http://www.indiana.edu/~ufc/docs/AY05/Circulars/GenEd.htm
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One Component of Gen Ed Proposal
• Minimum Grade Requirement
– The proposal sees a distinction between general
education requirements on the one hand, which have
definite and significant learning goals for both
knowledge and intellectual capabilities, and
exploratory options and elective requirements on the
other hand, which do not have such goals. To insure
that students achieve the general education goals at
least minimally, the proposal calls for students' being
required to earn grades of C- or higher to fulfill their
general education requirements.
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UFC Current Issues
Admission Standards for all Campuses
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IUPUI Faculty Constitution
• Preamble
– We, the faculty members of Indiana University Purdue
University Indianapolis, in recognition of our common
goal to better human conditions through the process
of education, and in recognition and appreciation of
the rights and responsibilities bestowed upon us by
the State of Indiana through the Indiana University
and the Purdue University Boards of Trustees for the
accomplishment of this goal, do establish this
Constitution for the purpose of creating a system
which will aid in the identification, definition, and
accomplishments of major specific objectives of
this faculty.
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Article II. Faculty Rights and
Responsibilities
The faculty shall:
1. advise the Chancellor of IUPUI, the
Indiana University and the Purdue
University Presidents, and the Boards of
Trustees concerning policies for
admission, retention, and academic
placement of students;
2. establish policies governing conduct and
discipline of students;
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Article II. Faculty Rights and
Responsibilities
3. develop curricula, course content, academic
procedures, and degree requirements, and
nominate candidates for degrees, subject to the
rights of review by appropriate governing bodies
within the universities and by appropriate
external bodies when their prerogatives are
affected;
4. fix the academic calendar and the general
policies for scheduling classes;
5. establish policies for institutional and student
participation in extracurricular activities;
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Article II. Faculty Rights and
Responsibilities
6. advise the Chancellor of IUPUI, the Indiana University
and the Purdue University Presidents, and the Boards of
Trustees concerning policies and administration of the
libraries;
7. recommend to the Chancellor of IUPUI procedures for
implementing at Indianapolis all-university criteria and
procedures for appointments to the faculty, general
faculty welfare, dismissal from the faculty, nonreappointment, promotion in academic rank, tenure, and
sabbatical leaves of absence;
8. consult with decision-making administrators regarding
proposed changes in academic organizations;
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Article II. Faculty Rights and
Responsibilities
9. continually review educational policies;
10. consult with decision-making administrators
regarding planning of physical facilities and
staffing;
11. participate in the process of selecting
candidates for major executive academic
positions; and,
12. have the right to petition the Boards of
Trustees through appropriate channels
regarding views of the faculty on any matter
pertaining to the conduct and welfare of the
institutions.
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Faculty Council Representatives
f) Election of unit representatives.
Each academic unit shall conduct its election of
unit representatives by procedures it shall itself
establish. The results of the unit elections shall
be reported by each academic unit president or
chair to the Faculty Council Coordinator and the
President of the Faculty no later than the middle
of March. The President shall announce the
results of the elections at the April Council
meeting.
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Faculty Council Representatives
g) Election of at-large representatives.
Election of at-large representatives shall be
conducted in accordance with the procedures
specified by the Faculty Council Bylaws,
provided that the number of at-large
representatives shall be equal to the number of
unit representatives, and provided further that
the number of elected representatives from any
academic unit shall be less than one-half of the
total number of elected members of the Council.
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Review Functions of the Faculty
• The faculty shall express its judgment on
any administrative action brought to its
attention which raises an issue of
academic freedom, tenure, promotion,
salary, the nature and conditions of work,
non-reappointment, or dismissal.
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Review Functions of the Faculty
• The Faculty Boards of Review shall
consider grievances of faculty members or
librarians concerning academic freedom,
tenure, promotion, salary adjustment, the
nature or conditions of work, or
reappointment. Any faculty member or
librarian desiring a review of university
action in these stated areas shall request,
in writing, a review by a Faculty Board of
Review.
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Review Functions of the Faculty
• Collective faculty judgment on major
issues affecting faculty interests may be
expressed via a referendum.
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Faculty Grievance Advisory Panel
• An elected faculty group designed to be
available early on in the course of developing or
potential grievances.
– The Faculty Grievance Advisory Panel members are
available to serve as impartial consultants for
faculty/librarians and administrators who seek
confidential informed advice from senior faculty
colleagues.
– The Panel members also are available to help resolve
situations informally by encouraging and facilitating
discussions between the parties to the grievance.
– At the conclusion of its work, the Faculty Grievance
Advisory Panel shall not compile any report or file
containing the specific information of any grievance
brought to it.
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Faculty Board of Review
• A Faculty Board of Review is to consider
grievances, via a Formal Hearing, to
gather appropriate information, and to
consider its findings in light of existing
policies and principles of fairness. The
Board of Review shall file a written report
of its findings and recommendations in a
timely and expeditious manner.
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Faculty Board of Review
• Determines
– whether appropriate procedures were followed;
– whether the grievance arose from inadequate
consideration of the qualifications of the faculty
member or librarian;
– whether presentation of erroneous information
substantially affected the decision; and
– whether essential fairness was accommodated
throughout the decision-making process.
– The Boards of Review may consider the issues set
forth in 4 a-d regarding promotion and/or tenure
grievances, but a Board of Review shall not function
as a substitute Promotion and Tenure Committee.
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Proposed Policies
Conflict of Commitment Policy for Faculty from the IUPUI Faculty Affairs Committee
Conflict of Interest Policy for Faculty - from the
IUPUI Faculty Affairs Committee
Proposed Campus-Wide Policy for Probation,
Dismissal, & Reinstatement - from the IUPUI
Academic Affairs Committee
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• Indiana University School of Informatics,
IUPUI
– Constitution
– Bylaws
• http://www.iupui.edu/~facinfo/associatedean/indyinformatics.html
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When Shared Governance
Doesn’t Work Well-• I’ll be honest. The principal reason I became an
administrator is because I grew increasingly frustrated
spending endless hours, days, weeks, and months of my
life on committees that were supposed to recommend
choices, solutions, and directions to other people who
either didn’t listen to what the committee had to say, in
some cases never intended to listen to what the
committee had to say, or did listen to the committee but
made a different decision.
Graham B. Spanier
– Reprinted by permission of the Pacific Sociological Association
with revisions by the author (Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 35,
No. 2, pp. 295-300)
– http://www.kon.org/archives/forum/12-1/spanier.html
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Your questions, thoughts,
comments--
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