Rank, Tenure and Salary Committee Report

9-16-02

 

The Committee has met once this semester and has begun to address the following issues.

 

  1. A request from the Library Faculty that changes be made in our tenure procedures to allow the Director of the Library to serve on Tenure Committees for library faculty. The sticking point is that our procedures require a member of a tenure committee to be on faculty contract, but the Director is on an administrative contract. The RTS Committee will recommend that simple changes in our procedures be made to grant the request.

 

  1. Issues around childbirth/adoption/health care concerns for faculty.
    1. Pregnancy Leave: We hope to formulate a proposal for a policy that would put rights to these leaves in writing.
    2. Leaves to care for family members: We hope to write a proposal for a policy to delineate faculty rights in this area.
    3. Support for childrearing by faculty members: We hope to write a proposal for a policy to delineate faculty rights in this area.
    4. Extending the Tenure Probationary Period: We hope to write a proposal for a policy to delineate faculty rights in this area.

 

We will meet again this week to continue work on these proposals. The hope is that we will have something to propose by the October Meeting of the Faculty Forum.

 

  1. Should there be a University Tenure Committee?  We are beginning talks concerning what we should attempt in this area.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Dwight M. Olson, Committee Chair