Faculty Affairs Committee

Charges

Mandate from Policy B2.0

The Faculty Affairs Committee shall be responsible for policy recommendations concerning faculty tenure, rank, welfare, leave, and professional conduct and shall review all policies and procedures concerning the extended part-time and adjunct faculty of the university.  The committee will also oversee the needs related to the professional development of quality teaching and serve to foster collegiality and mentorship among faculty. The Faculty Affairs Committee shall consist of the following: one faculty member per college, each to be elected by their collegial faculty; one dean elected by the Deans Council; three members at large elected by the Faculty Senate; and the provost or their delegate (ex-officio, voting).

Charges for AY2023

Continuing Charges

  1. Title changes for NTT faculty. Update: The last time this charge was discussed at the Senate, it was recommended that the FAC do additional research (perhaps through a university-wide survey) to see how NTT faculty feel about the proposed title changes. The FAC would like to carry this forward.
  2. Annual Faculty Evaluations and Plans of Work. 
  3. (prev Charge #6) Deadlines for submission of faculty documentation of tenure, promotion, etc. This charge was to be implemented as a test case with a willing College/Unit.
  4. Prev Charge #10) NTT faculty Leave-of-Absence/sabbatical

 

Self-Charge Recommendations

To investigate inequities in workload following return from leave.

New Charges

  1. Please investigate best practices and what current college policies are regarding faculty candidate access to documents/letters from committees, unit head, dean, and provost during the mid-tenure review process. Discussions with pre-tenure faculty across different colleges indicates that in some colleges (e.g., COS), faculty candidates are not permitted to keep any copy of the dean's letter, while in other colleges these letters are communicated via email. This is in spite of specific COS policy dictating that candidates have "access" to these documents (see Table 2 here: https://www.rit.edu/myrit/system/files/cos/E05.0-Mid-Tenure-Review-Poli…). However, what is specifically meant by "access" is left vague. In COS practice as of AY 2022-23, "access" appears to mean "30 minutes to view but not record in any way".
  2. Promotion packets for NTT should include a letter from coordinators of any multi section courses that they taught, even if the coordinator’s rank is the same as the candidate for promotion.
  3. Move tenured faculty and principal lecturers to longer evaluation cycles.
  4. When we develop Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and Occupation Therapy Doctor (OTD) Programs in the College of Health Sciences and Technology at RIT, we propose to have Non-Tenure Track Clinical Faculty with the ranks of Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, and Clinical Professor. These Non-Tenure Track Clinical Faculty are normally DPT or OTD prepared and with clinical expertise.

Membership

Corinna Schlombs

College of Liberal Arts

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Chair AY 2023-24

Sarah Thompson

College of Art and Design

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Vice Chair AY 2023-24

Callie Babbitt

Golisano Institute for Sustainability

2022-2024  (1st Term)

Catherine Beaton

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

2022-2024 (2nd term)

At-large representative

Stephen Boedo

Kate Gleason College of Engineering

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Sandi Connelly

College of Science

2022-2024 (1st term)

At-large representative

 

Kyle Dunno

College of Engineering Technology

2021-2023 (1st Term)

Leonie Fernandes

Academic Affairs

2023-2025 (1st term)

Hamad Ghazle

College of Health Sciences and Technology

2021-2023 (1st Term)

Tracy Magin

National Technical Institute for the Deaf

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Aaron McGowan

College of Science

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Laverne McQuiller

Academic Affairs

Open Term

Provost's delegate

 

M. Mustafa Rafique

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Zhi Tang

Saunders College of Business

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Bolaji Thomas

College of Health Sciences and Technology

2022-2024 (1st Term)

At-large representative

 

Yong Tai Wang

College of Health Sciences and Technology

Dean's Delegate

2023 - 2025 (1st Term)