THE
FACULTY
SENATE
Senate
Document Number 5107S
Date
of Senate Approval 03/15/07
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Statement
of Faculty Senate Action:
Senate of the Senate Resolution
In order to fulfill
the responsibility imposed on the faculty by the final paragraph (Compliance)
of the Standards of Shared Governance on the 16 UNC Campuses document, the
Senate charges the Faculty, Welfare, and Development Committee, in consultation
with the Institutional Development Committee, to modify the Faculty Senate’s Standing
Rules and Rules of Order as needed to better position the faculty to be
able to implement part 3 of the Administration-Faculty Collegiality
section of the Shared Government Document. The Committee should consider
both substantive changes in duties and structural and procedural modifications
which enhance the faculty’s ability to assert its influence in areas where it
has "an appropriate interest but not primary responsibility."
Among the matters
FWDC should consider are the wisdom of reviving the University Planning Council
system and mechanisms for assessing the degree to which faculty and
administrative policies, decisions, and activities are consistent with and
contribute to the University’s Mission Statement, the University
Community Council’s statement on the Shared Values of Our University and
UNCA’s planning documents.
FWDC will also add
to the duties of the Senate Executive Committee the responsibility of producing
a brief summary report of the degree to which faculty participated in decisions
which the Shared Government Document specifies are relevant.
Such changes as are
deemed necessary will be incorporated into the Standing Rules and Rules of
Order to be adopted when the Senate reconvenes in the fall to begin its
2007-2008 sessions.