THE
FACULTY SENATE
Senate Document Number 6309S
Date of Senate Approval 04/09/09
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Statement
of Faculty Senate Action:
FWDC 10
Revised: Revision of the Appointment process for Faculty ILS Oversight
Committee
and its constituent subcommittees (Revision of
SD0703F,
SD0304F, SD0105F, SD8307F; Faculty Handbook 10.3.8)
Effective: Immediately
Delete from Faculty Handbook under
Section 10.3.8 the entire section beginning with “Structure:” and ending
immediately before the section beginning with "Duties:"
The section currently reads as follows:
Structure:
The Faculty ILS committee is composed of:
* Six
voting faculty members, in staggered three-year terms, with at least one member
from each of the three academic divisions. The committee will be nominated by
the FWDC (in consultation with ILSOC) and voted upon by the Faculty Senate.
* One
member of APC, chosen by APC (ex officio, without vote)
* Dean for
University Programs (DUP) or designate (ex officio, without vote)
One voting member will be chosen as chair of the committee
at the first meeting of the academic year.
Each member of the Oversight Committee will be
responsible for coordinating a particular area of the ILS.
o One
member will work with the DUP to coordinate Liberal Studies Colloquia.
o One member will coordinate topical clusters
o
Four members will each chair one of the four subcommittees overseeing the
intensive areas: Diversity, Writing, Quantitative and Information
Literacy. Membership on these
subcommittees is organized by the subcommittee chairs, and reported to ILSOC
and FWDC for approval. Membership for each subcommittee is set at a minimum of
three, and will consist of staggered two or three-year terms.
Replace with:
Structure:
The
Faculty ILS Oversight committee is composed of:
* Six voting faculty members.
* One member of APC, chosen by APC (ex
officio, without vote)
* Associate Provost for University Programs
(APUP) or designate (ex officio, without vote)
The
voting members of the committee will be the chairs of the six subcommittees and
will be elected for one-year, renewable terms by the members of the ILSOC
subcommittees from among the members of those subcommittees.
One
voting member will be chosen as chair of each subcommittee at the first meeting
of the academic year; one voting member of ILSOC will be chosen as chair at the
first meeting of the academic year.
Each
subcommittee will be responsible for coordinating a particular area of the ILS:
Liberal Studies Colloquia; Topical Clusters; Diversity Intensives; Writing
Intensives; Quantitative Intensives; and Information Literacy Intensives.
Members
of intensive subcommittees are appointed by Faculty Senate, upon nomination
from the FWDC. Subcommittees will
consist of a maximum of five members, except for the Writing Intensive
subcommittee, which will have eight appointed members in addition to the
Director of the
RATIONALE and PROCEDURES
FOR TRANSITION:
The
FWDC believes that having the ILS Oversight Committee elected from among the
members of the various subcommittees serves the need of assuring knowledge and
competence on ILSOC. With this change it is no longer desirable to have the
Oversight committee continue to choose members of the subcommittees; instead,
having those persons nominated and appointed by FWDC and the Senate provides
needed representativeness and input from the faculty at large. The FWDC is mindful of the desirability that
members of the subcommittees be knowledgeable about the intensives they are to
oversee; but recognizes also that faculty who do not teach in one of the
intensives may also have relevant knowledge and interest.
Current
members of the intensive subcommittees will serve their current terms and
replacement members, or additional members as may be needed to fill out
subcommittee memberships, will be appointed as provided in this document.
Election of members of ILSOC from the six subcommittees will begin (as existing
members rotate off) in Fall, 2009.