Academic Governance i. The parties hereby incorporate into this Agreement Part V of the 1966 Statement insofar as it is applicable to the University and to the extent set forth below. The faculty has primary responsibility for such fundamental areas as curriculum, subject matter and methods of instruction, research and scholarship, faculty status, and those aspects of student life which relate to the educational process. Faculty status includes appointments, reappointments, decisions not to reappoint, promotions, the granting of tenure and dismissal. The 1 With respect to faculty members, the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure reads: “The college or university teacher is a citizen, a member of a learned profession, and an officer of an educational institution. When he speaks or writes as a citizen, he should be free from institutional censorship or discipline, but his special position in the community imposes special obligations. As a man of learning and an educational officer, he should remember that the public may judge his profession and his institution by his utterances. Hence, he should at all times be accurate, should exercise appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others and should make every effort to indicate that he is not an institutional spokesman.” primary responsibility of the faculty for such matters is based upon the fact that its judgment is central to general educational policy. Furthermore, scholars in a particular field or activity have the chief competence for judging the work of their colleagues; in such competence it is implicit that responsibility exists for both adverse and favorable judgments. Likewise there is the more general competence of experienced faculty personnel committees having a broader charge. Determinations in these matters should first be by faculty action through established procedures, reviewed by the chief academic officers with the concurrence of the Board of Trustees. On these matters the power of review or final decision is lodged in the governing board or delegated by it to the President. The decision shall ordinarily concur with faculty determinations expressed through the appropriate University bodies or agencies in those areas, referred to above, where the faculty has primary responsibility, except in rare circumstances and for compelling reasons. The reasons for the failure to concur shall be communicated to the faculty. The faculty, following such communication of failure to ...
Academic Governance. A. Employees represented by the Union shall be permitted to participate in academic governance in conformity with department, college & university bylaws for academic governance and as allowed or encouraged by unit practices.
Academic Governance. Employees represented by the UNTF may partake in academic governance according to unit, college, and university practices and bylaws, and may participate as voting faculty as specified in applicable bylaws.
Academic Governance. Although this provision reflects the philosophical agreement of the parties, the parties acknowledge that governance is not a negotiable topic and that this provision is not subject to the grievance and arbitration process. The College will encourage academic departments to (1) invite adjunct faculty to attend departmental meetings, giving adequate notification of those meetings and the anticipated agenda; (2) permit one collective adjunct faculty vote on departmental issues determined by the majority adjunct faculty in attendance at any departmental meeting; (3) make minutes of departmental meetings available to interested adjunct faculty and (4) invite adjunct faculty to serve on departmental committees.
Academic Governance
