The University Senate took the following actions at its December 1, 2006 meeting:
Ending annual appointments for nontenure-track faculty The senate will recommend to President Richard L. McCormick the abolishment of limits on reappointing nontenure-track faculty (including instructors, lecturers, assistants, librarians, and research annuals). These faculty members are currently limited to three reappointments. The senate proposes appointing nontenure-track faculty to one- to three-year initial contractual appointments, and allowing for subsequent dean’s-level reviews for three year appointments after that. The senate also voted to recommend that Executive Vice President Philip Furmanski remind all academic units that annuals and tenure-track faculty are eligible for the Faculty Academic Service Increment Program, and that instructional and research annuals be made eligible to apply for internal and external grants.
See the Faculty and Personnel Committee’s entire report here.
-- Ashanti M. Alvarez