Faculty Senate Personnel Committee
(FS Bylaws, Article 3.3)

Membership of Faculty Senate Personnel Committee

3.3 Faculty Senate Personnel Committee

3.3.1 Composition All voting members of the Faculty Senate Personnel Committee shall be tenured members of the faculty, except for ad hoc clinical or research faculty who shall be included for cases involving promotion in rank for these faculty classifications, or examination of substantive policy and procedures change that may affect those in these classifications. The committee shall consist of members chosen as follows: 

3.3.1.1 Seven members of the Faculty Senate: one each from the faculty elected to represent the colleges of Business, Education, Engineering and Engineering Technology, Health and Human Sciences, 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 Faculty Senate. 

3.3.1.2 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.

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

3.3.1.4 Three ad hoc clinical or research faculty at the associate professor rank or higher. Such members shall serve only to consider and vote on cases involving clinical or research faculty promotion in rank or policy involving criteria and procedures substantively affecting clinical or research faculty promotion.

3.3.1.5 The vice president for research and innovation partnerships, who shall serve ex officio, and who shall not vote; 

3.3.1.6 The vice provost for faculty affairs, who shall serve ex officio as chair, and who shall not vote;

3.3.1.7 The executive vice president and provost who shall serve ex officio, and who shall not vote. 

3.3.2 Duties – Except as covered by the faculty union collective bargaining agreement, the Faculty Senate Personnel Committee will: 

3.3.2.1 Provide the colleges and the faculty with university criteria, current policies, and compliance dates for various personnel actions. 

3.3.2.2 Review and formulate recommendations regarding all proposed changes in university policy pertaining to tenure, promotion in rank (for both tenure and non-tenure faculty appointments), leaves-without-pay, and for sabbatical leaves for academic personnel. All such recommendations shall be reported to the Faculty Senate. 

3.3.2.3 Ensure that the personnel policies and procedures of the individual colleges and of the University Libraries are up-to-date, in compliance with university policies, adequate to the demands and expectations placed upon them, and properly enforced and implemented in all situations.  

3.3.2.4 Formulate recommendations regarding sabbatical leave applications in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 of these bylaws. 

3.3.2.5 Review and forward its recommendation to the president on each case involving promotion (including non-tenure faculty, if applicable), tenure, or sabbatical leave in which the executive vice president and provost disagrees with a unanimous recommendation made by the college and department concerned. 

3.3.2.6 Serve as an appeals board to hear and forward recommendations to the executive vice president and provost on individual cases involving:

A. Allegations of procedural violations at the college level;
B. Disagreements on a personnel decision/recommendation between a college and a department;
C. Disagreements on a personnel decision/recommendation between a dean and a college council or college personnel committee;
D. Concerns of the executive vice president and provost about a possible violation of personnel procedures or standards which was not resolved at the college level.

The definition of this review authority is further specified in Article 10.3.4 of these bylaws.

3.3.2.7 Perform such other functions as may be assigned to it by these bylaws. 

Membership

FSPC Members from Faculty Senate Two-year terms	2024-2025	2025-2026	2026-2027
Business	Fall-Meghann Cefaratti ACCY Spring-Mark Mellon ACCY	Fall-TBD Spring-Mark Mellon ACCY
Education	Jodi Lampi, CURR	Jodi Lampi CURR
Engineering and Engineering Technology	Veysel Demir ELEC	William Mills TECH	William Mills TECH
Health and Human Sciences	Cris Sabio for Rossetti NURS	Cris Sabio NURS	Cris Sabio NURS
Liberal Arts and Sciences	David Valentiner PSYC	Virginia Naples BIOS	Virginia Naples BIOS
Liberal Arts and Sciences	Fall-Brendon Swedlow POLS Spring-George Slotsve ECON	Fall-George Slotsve ECON Spring-Brendon Swedlow  POLS
Visual and Performing Arts	TBD for Hartenhoff THED	TBD for Staikidis	Kryssi Staikidis ARTD

Membership

FSPC Members from the College Councils One-year terms	2024-2025	2025-2026	2026-2027
Business	Chang Liu OMIS	Vijaykumar Krishnan Palghat MKTG
Education	Stephen Tonks LEPF	Paul Wright KNPE
Engineering and Engineering Technology
Health and Human Sciences	Fall-Bette Montgomery / Julie Patterson Spring-Bette Montgomery	Bette Montgomery FACS
Law	Therese Arado	Laurel Rigertas
Liberal Arts and Sciences	Virginia Naples BIOS	Trude Jacobsen Gidazewski HIST
Visual and Performing Arts	Vacant	Ann Van Dijk SOAD
University Libraries	Vacant	Wendell Johnson
FSPC Ad Hoc Clinical or Research Faculty Members One-year terms	2024-2025	2025-2026	2026-2027
	Kimberly Hart CAHE	Wendy Vaughn LAW
	Danica Billingsly AHCD
	Blythe Kitner AHCD	Blythe Kitner AHCD

Membership

Other Members Ex officio, nonvoting	2024-2025	2025-2026	2026-2027
Executive Vice President and Provost	Laurie Elish-Piper	Laurie Elish-Piper
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs	Bárbara González	Bárbara González
Vice President for Research and Innovation Partnerships	Richard Mocarski	Richard Mocarski