Membership of UCPC

1. All voting members of the University Council Personnel Committee shall be tenured members of the faculty. The committee shall consist of members chosen as follows:

   Seven members of the University Council, one each from among the faculty elected to represent the colleges of Business, Education, Engineering and Engineering Technology, Health and Human Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts, and two from among the faculty elected to represent the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. These members shall be appointed by the Faculty Senate prior to the selection of other members of the committee, and shall serve staggered two-year terms during their membership on the University Council.

   Members from the faculties of the colleges chosen as follows:

   One member from each of the following college councils chosen by members of that college council: Business, Education, Engineering and Engineering Technology, Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts;

   Such members shall not be chosen from the same academic departments as the members selected for the committee from these colleges by the Faculty Senate.

   One member from the faculty of the College of Law and the University Libraries chosen by that faculty.

   The vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School who shall serve ex officio, nonvoting;

   The executive vice president and provost who shall serve as chair, ex officio, nonvoting.

2. The committee's duties are to provide colleges and the faculty with university criteria, current policies, and compliance dates for various personnel actions; to review and formulate recommendations for academic personnel for all proposed changes in university policy pertaining to salary increases, tenure, promotions in rank, and for sabbatical leaves, and to report such recommendations to the University Council.