Ad Hoc Faculty Advisory Committee (AHFAC) Report To

Faculty

Mark Johnston Jonathan MillerRyan MusgraveJennifer Queen

David Richard (co-Chair)Don Rogers

Emily RussellJoe Siry

Carol M. Bresnahan (co-Chair)Gloria Cook

Nancy DeckerSue Easton Jim Gilbert

Eileen GregoryScott Hewit

Committee

AHFAC Report To Faculty

O ChargeO Proposed Changes To the All-College

BylawsO Recommendations For Changes To

The A&S and CPS Bylaws

AHFAC ChargeO Review and decide what areas and elements, as

applicable to all faculty, need to be governed by the All-College Bylaws. AHFAC will need to determine whether Crummer faculty should or should not be included in all areas. Areas not included in the All-College Bylaws will be left to the individual colleges or schools for their own bylaws.

O Draft recommendations for changes to the All-College Bylaws. We hope to identify a ‘scribe,’ who will take the committee’s recommendations and put them into words; AHFAC will then review the draft to be sure its intentions were correctly captured and expressed.

Principles That Guided Our Recommendation

O Minimalist changeO Whenever possible, keep existing committee structure and

function in placeO Voice

O Develop recommendations that ensure each college has a voice O Representativeness

O Recognize the inherent challenges in having one college that is so much larger than the other as we consider how voices are heard

O CustomO Recognize that A&S committees exist to facilitate work and are

not bodies independent of the larger collegeO Independence

O Recognize the desire of CPS faculty to control its curriculum and its T&P mechanism

O Partnering and cooperationO Recommend bylaws that augment and enhance the working

relationship of all the collegesO When in doubt, opt for the choice that is most likely to

encourage cooperation and communication

What AHFAC can not and did not do…

O AHFAC can not make changes on its own – any changes must be approved by the faculty

O AHFAC did not recommend moving any A&S committee or to which body a committee reports

O AHFAC did not recommend creating any new committees at any level

All-College Bylaws: Recommended Changes

O Mission StatementO AHFAC recommends that the mission

statement of Rollins College be included as the first item in the All-College bylaws

All-College Bylaws: Recommended Changes

O All-College Executive Council (Article IV)O Current Purpose: To advise the

President at his/her behestO Proposed Additional Function: To

serve as a steering committee to guide faculty on resolving issues of academic import that are greater than the scope of any single faculty.O Can be convened at the request of A&S

Executive Committee or equivalent bodies in CPS or Crummer, President, or Provost

All-College Bylaws: Recommended Changes

O All-College Executive Council (cont’d)O Proposed

O Initially charged to adjudicate whether an issue truly is larger in scope than any single faculty

O Then determines the mechanism, and its membership, by which negotiation and resolution may take place

O Report to the President if resolution is not attainable

O President will then make a decision

All-College Bylaws: Recommended Changes

O All-College Executive Council (cont’d)O Composition

O Add one CPS seatO President of the Crummer School of

BusinessO President of College of Professional

StudiesO President of College of Arts and SciencesO Four additional College of Arts and

Sciences facultyO President and Provost are non-voting

members

CPS

What has not changedO Faculty Appeals Committee

O Add one CPS seatO No changes in committee’s charge

CPS

Mandated ReviewO Two year evaluation period

O All-College bylaws must be evaluated after two years by the Executive Council

O Making decisions based on data rather than hypothetical situations

O Although we can not anticipate all of the possible issues that may develop, what we can do is create the organizational process by which we collectively and democratically manage those issues.

Unanimous recommendation

O The proposed changes to the All-College Bylaws were unanimously supported by the AHFAC committee.

The score sheetCurrent Bylaws Proposed Bylaws

Mission statement reaffirmed CPS represented Faculty can convene ExecutiveCouncil to advise President

Mechanism for resolving issues larger in scope than one faculty

Mandated review of bylaws to see how we’re doing Bylaws reaffirm democratic principles and that “decisions that affect the academic operation of Rollins College must be made within the procedural framework outlined here.”

These proposed changes fundamentally enhance faculty inputin decision-making regarding all issues of academic import.

Recommendations for A&S and CPS bylaw changes

O PrinciplesO Minimalist changeO VoiceO RepresentativenessO Partnering and Cooperation

O Implications of creating new all-college committees

O Implications of having committees in which CPS is not represented

O Implications of having CPS faculty sit on existing A&S committees and vice versa

Recommendation toA&S and CPS

O Within A&S:O Provide a seat with voting privileges to CPS

(subject to the rules of qualification) on the following committeesO Finance and ServicesO Professional Standards

O Maintains distribution of awards, etc., provided CPS reps is on board

O Student LifeO Academic Affairs Committee

O Faculty Evaluation Committee will not have a CPS member

Recommendation to A&S and CPS

O Within CPSO Provide a seat with voting privileges

to A&S (subject to the rules of qualification) on the Curriculum committee

O Provide a non-voting observer seat to A&S (subject to the rules of qualification) on the CPS Promotion and Tenure Committee

A&S

A&S

NON-VOTING