Streamlined Appointments for Non-Voting Faculty
submitted by David Notkin, then Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) chair
We previously had a traditional but increasingly unwieldy procedure for appointments of non-voting faculty in CSE; we were required to have a full faculty vote for every such appointment.
We've worked with the Dean's Office (and Academic HR) to put into place a new, more streamlined procedure. In essence, in this procedure the voting faculty yields the responsibility for these appointments to the department's Executive Committee (chair and associate chairs ex officio, with four additional elected members). For some of the appointments (in particular, adjunct and affiliate appointments, as well as any potentially controversial appointments), we will ask for advice from the entire voting faculty; this is an informal agreement with the faculty and is not codified in the procedure.
Putting this into place required (a) permission from the Dean and (b) a vote of the faculty. Our faculty were given an email version of the procedure for electronic discussion (with an offer of a face-to-face meeting), followed by a physical ballot with the updated version of the procedure. It passed unanimously.
Might be worth considering some form of this as a time-saver that is consistent with the faculty code.
You can find the procedure on the CSE website.
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