Senate Document #11
   Amendment to Article I of the Constitution of the Faculty Senate


Article I of the Constitution of the Faculty Senate now reads:

     The faculty shall be composed of all persons having academic
rank at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the
Chancellor of the University, and the Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs.  The ranks are Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant
Professor, and Instructor.  All ranked members may vote in faculty
elections.  Those eligible for election to the Faculty Senate shall
be those full-time employees of the institution who carry academic
rank.  An untenured faculty member may request the Secretary of the
Senate to omit his or her name from the ballot and thus decline
Senate election.  Tenured faculty members may not decline election
to the Senate or to Senate offices.  It is assumed the members of
the Faculty Senate will regularly attend Senate meetings and Senate
committee meetings.  When a Senator cannot attend a regular meeting
of a Senate committee or the Senate, he should inform in advance
the appropriate chairman and specify his reasons.  A Senator
missing more than three meetings of either the Senate or a Senate
committee will have his Senate membership reviewed by the Faculty
Senate.


It is proposed to replace this article by:

     For purposes of voting in the Senate elections and eligibility
for election to the Faculty Senate and its offices, membership in
the Faculty is defined as follows.  This definition will not
contravene any regulations or provisions of the University code or
of any individual contracts, but will define membership in the
faculty solely for the purposes above.

     The faculty shall be composed, firstly, of all persons having
academic rank at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the
Chancellor, and the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.  The
ranks are Professors, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and
Instructor.  Ranked members of the faculty may vote in Senate
elections and are eligible for election to the Senate and to Senate
offices.

     Membership in the faculty will also include persons holding
special appointments to faculty status and teaching at least the
equivalent of a 50% load in the current academic year.  "Visiting",
"Adjunct", and "Research" faculty, at any rank, hold special
appointments.  Other examples of special appointments are Lecturer
and Artist-, Poet-, or Writer-in-Residence.  The intent of this
provision is that persons who are appointed to special faculty
status, and who carry in a given academic year at least 50%
equivalent teaching responsibility, shall have the rights and
responsibilities of faculty members vis-a-vis the faculty Senate. 

     An untenured faculty member may request the Secretary of the
Senate to delete his or her name from the ballot and thus decline
Senate election.  Tenured faculty members may not decline election
to the Senate or its offices.

     It is assumed the members of the Faculty Senate will regularly
attend Senate meetings and Senate committee meetings.  When a
Senator cannot attend a regular meeting of a Senate committee or
the Senate, he should inform in advance the appropriate chairman
and specify his reasons.  A Senator missing more than three
meetings of either the Senate or a Senate committee will have his
Senate membership reviewed by the Faculty Senate.



(Passed by Faculty Senate February 21, 1978.)