WHEREAS, the Faculty Handbook and the bylaws
and promotion and tenure documents of departments and schools contain extensive
provisions for the appointment and reappointment of tenured, tenure-track, and
continuing non-tenure track faculty and for the periodic review of the teaching
done by them, but currently many departments and schools lack written policies
for the appointment and reappointment of Supplemental Contract instructors and
other temporary faculty who may be repeatedly reappointed, or for the periodic
review of the teaching done by them, be it therefore
RESOLVED,
that by June 1, 2014, each department or school must have a written policy,
approved by a majority of its full-time voting faculty and by the University
Faculty Senate's Coordinating Committee on Education, which describes its
procedures for appointing and reappointing Supplemental Contract instructors
and other temporary faculty. The
procedures for reappointment must include provisions for periodic review by a
committee composed of full-time voting faculty, at least as often as every
third year, of a dossier of teaching materials, such as syllabi, homework
assignments, quizzes, examinations, term papers, projects, and other materials
used in the grading of the students, as well as the grade distributions in the
courses and the comments made by the students.