Minutes

MINUTES

Meeting of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas, 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Golden Eagle, Suite A, of the Union Building. Dean Warren Burggren presided. David Holdeman (English) kept the minutes.

The Call to Order was conducted by Dean Warren Burggren.
Minutes for the meeting of Wednesday, April 2, 2008 were approved as presented.
Terry Clower, Chair of the Faculty Senate, provided an update on the activities of the Faculty Senate. He requested faculty to take part in shared governance by:

a)       participating the evaluation of administrators;
b)       voting on upcoming revisions to the Faculty Senate bylaws (which are necessary to bring the bylaws into agreement with new university policies, including the new promotion and tenure policy);
c)       participating in Faculty Senate committees (spots will soon be available on committees concerned with enrollment management and revision of the Faculty Handbook);
d)       providing feedback and bringing concerns to faculty senators.

Passed unanimously by show of hands a Faculty Council proposal for amendment to the CAS Constitution. The following wording (in bold type, below) is added to the description of the CAS Personnel Affairs Committee, CAS Constitution, Article I. Section C.2:

The Personnel Affairs Committee

The function of the Personnel Affairs Committee shall be

a. to formulate policy for the College regarding the appointment, promotion, granting of tenure, and termination of faculty of the College,

b. to review and approve departmental criteria and procedures for evaluation of faculty performance for purposes of promotion, tenure, and progress in rank,

c. to ensure equitable procedures in assessing faculty merit and salary recommendations on the departmental level, and

d. to make recommendations to the Dean on promotion, tenure and progress in rank cases presented to the College by its departments.

The membership of the committee shall consist of four elected members of the faculty, one from each area (see II.B.), and three members of the faculty appointed by the dean. The Dean, assistant deans, associate deans and department chairs shall not be eligible for election or appointment to this committee. Only faculty members holding the academic rank of professor are eligible for membership on the committee. Each year the committee will select a chair from among its members in their second or third year of service. The Dean and Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs may attend and participate in advocate presentations made as part of deliberations for promotion, tenure and progress in rank cases.

Dean Burggren conducted discussion of the following items:

Supplemental Travel. More faculty are applying and CAS is making more of an attempt to support international travel. Consequently, some awards have been smaller than in the past. In response to questions, Associate Dean Kathryn Cullivan agreed to circulate the criteria for determining awards.
The appointment of Dell McDaniel to serve as Senior Research Facilitator until such time as an Associate Dean for Research can be appointed.
Possible adoption of a template for UNT websites. Dean Burggren and Tim Christian suggested that some standardization may be necessary or desirable for websites created in the future. At the same time, it is desirable to allow units the freedom to showcase their unique attributes.

The meeting adjourned at 5:00 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

David Holdeman


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