University Council Personnel Committee
(NIU Bylaws, Article 2.2)

Membership of University Council Personnel Committee 

2.2 University Council Personnel Committee

2.2.1 Composition The University Council Personnel Committee shall consist of the following members:

(A) Two tenure-track faculty members selected by and from the tenure-track faculty members serving on University Council.
(B) One student member selected by and from the student members serving on University Council.
(C) Two operating staff members selected by and from the operating staff members serving on University Council.
(D) Two supportive professional staff members selected by and from the supportive professional staff members serving on University Council.
(E) One instructor member selected by and from the instructor members serving on University Council.
(F) One clinical faculty member serving on University Council.  
(G) The vice provost for faculty affairs who shall serve ex officio, and who shall not vote.
(H) The chief human resources officer (or designee), who shall serve ex officio, as chair, and who shall not vote.

2.2.2 Duties 

2.2.2.1 To act as an advisory body to the university on personnel issues. Review the personnel policies and procedures of units and all proposed changes in such policies that require University Council approval. Provide recommendations on policy changes to University Council. 

2.2.2.2 Ensure that the personnel policies and procedures of the university's divisions and units related to position classification other than tenured/tenure-track faculty are up to date, adequate to the demands and expectations placed upon them, and properly enforced and implemented. To accomplish this purpose, the committee may undertake analyses of aggregate personnel decisions by units for the purpose of determining compliance by such units with university policies. In doing this, the committee shall not, however, undertake investigations or reviews of individual personnel decisions, except as such decisions must be reviewed in the context of a broader aggregate analysis of unit personnel actions.  

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

MEMBERSHIP

2022-2023

2023-24

Faculty

Carol Walther Carol Walther
LAS

Faculty

Larissa Garcia Dee Anna Phares
LIB

Student

Raaif Majeed

Chris English

Operating Staff

Linda Srygler

Fall-Zac Birch
Spring-Holly Nicholson

Operating Staff

John Hulseberg

Tiffany Morris

Supportive Professional Staff

Andrew Rogers Shannon Stoker

Supportive Professional Staff

Melanie Costello

Tom O'Grady

Instructor

Meredith Geller

 

Clinical Faculty

Wendy Vaughn

Wendy Vaughn

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
(nonvoting)

Chad McEvoy

Bárbara González

Chief Human Resources Officer (or designee) (nonvoting) chair

Liz Guess

John Acardo

Contact Us

University Council
Altgeld Hall 103

Benjamin Creed
President, Faculty Senate
Chair, University Council
bcreed@niu.edu

Pat Erickson
Administrative Assistant
pje@niu.edu

Linda Saborío
Faculty Advisory Council to the IBHE
lsaborio@niu.edu

Carrie Kortegast
Faculty Personnel Advisor
ckortegast@niu.edu

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