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 AY2022

  1. Resume the question of the title changes for lecturers, changing the titles from Lecturer / Senior Lecturer and Principal Lecturer to Assistant Teaching Professor, Associate Teaching Professor and Full Teaching Professor. (Carry-over charge from AY 2021)
  2. Lead a collaborative effort with all stakeholders to review how POWs are currently used and to consider proposed changes, including a way to assure consistency across colleges. 
  3. Investigate best practices for annual evaluations–particularly related to standardized guidelines for chair’s evaluations.
  4. Investigate best practices for student evaluations and make recommendations related to their use for both annual evaluations and promotion/tenure.
  5. Clarify the time a lecturer-track faculty member has to be in each rank before being eligible to submit a promotion packet.
  6. Review policies related to awards, promotions, and other faculty related activities that have deadlines for material submissions, and identify deadlines that occur when  9 month faculty are not on contract. Make recommendations to ensure the requirement of faculty to meet these deadlines does not force faculty to complete related work when not on contract, unless they choose to do so.
  7. Consider amending E05, 3.C.2.a to require that external tenure committee representatives either be Full Professors, rather than just tenured professors, or that a Full professor be chosen as an alternate otherwise.
  8. A lot of outstanding service to RIT receives no official recognition. Consider the creation of annual awards for outstanding service (as we have for teaching).
  9. Investigate the avenues for allowing NTT faculty a periodic leave of absence or sabbatical.

Membership

Sandi Connelly

College of Science

Co-Chair AY 2022-2023

At-large representative

2022-2024 (1st term)

Tracy Magin

National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Co-Chair AY 2022-2023

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Leonie Fernandes

Academic Affairs

2023-2025 (1st term)

Callie Babbitt

Golisano Institute for Sustainability

2022-2024  (1st Term)

Catherine Beaton

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

At-large representative

2022-2024 (2nd term)

Stephen Boedo

Kate Gleason College of Engineering

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Kyle Dunno

College of Engineering Technology

2021-2023 (1st Term)

Hamad Ghazle

College of Health Sciences and Technology

2021-2023 (1st Term)

Laverne McQuiller

Academic Affairs

Provost's delegate

Open Term

Zhi Tang

Saunders College of Business

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Corinna Schlombs

College of Liberal Arts

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Bolaji Thomas

College of Health Sciences and Technology

At-large representative

2022-2024 (1st Term)

Sarah Thompson

College of Art and Design

2022-2024 (1st Term)

M. Mustafa Rafique

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

2023-2025 (1st Term)

Aaron McGowan

College of Science

2023-2025 (1st Term)