Common use of Composition of and Procedures Before the Joint Appeals Board Clause in Contracts

Composition of and Procedures Before the Joint Appeals Board. 1. There is hereby established a Joint Appeals Board which shall be empowered to hear all appeals involving substantive academic judgments and any alleged procedural errors directly related to those judgments which are filed in accordance with the preceding subsection D. The Board shall be empowered to request any and all parties to submit evidence related to each appeal and to seek testimony from witnesses. The Joint Appeals Board shall establish regularly scheduled sessions for hearing appeals and may adopt such rules and regulations for hearing and deciding appeals that are consistent with this Section 2. These rules and regulations will be made available by the Joint Appeals Board to the Association, to the University, and to the parties to a specific appeal. 2. The Joint Appeals Board shall be composed of at least six (6) full-time tenured members of the Faculty and the same number of full-time academic administrators who hold academic rank. The Faculty representatives shall be elected by the full-time members of the Faculty for three (3) year terms, at least two (2) to be elected in the Fall semester of each year from a slate of candidates which the Faculty Senate is hereby authorized to prepare and to conduct necessary elections. The term for Faculty representatives will commence at the start of the Spring semester immediately following their election and be completed at the end of the Fall semester three (3) years after the semester in which they were elected. In preparing the slate of candidates and holding the elections in accordance with the authorization granted in this Section, the Faculty Senate is requested to evolve a procedure to assure that the Faculty members of the Joint Appeals board shall be as representative as possible of the diverse academic disciplines of the University. The administrative representatives shall be appointed from time to time by the Office of the Xxxxxxx, except that an administrative representative's removal from the Appeals Board will not affect such representative's obligation to participate in the decision of any panel involving appeals that were heard by the panel prior to such administrative representative's removal from the Board. 3. Each appeal shall be submitted to a panel of the Joint Appeals Board consisting of two