Resolution for Changes to the Name, Constituency, and Charge of the Non-Tenure Track Instructors Committee

Whereas non-tenure track faculty members currently include instructors, clinical and research faculty as well as faculty in the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, and

Whereas language in the Faculty Handbook establishing the Senate’s Non-Tenure Track Instructors Committee was written before clinical and research faculty tracks were established, and

Whereas clinical and research faculty, and other non-tenure track faculty share many common concerns with instructors,

Therefore, the Non-Tenure Track Instructors Committee recommends that its charge be expanded to include concerns brought forward by all non-tenure track faculty members. Such an expansion in charge will require that the current description of the committee in the Faculty Handbook and its name be revised accordingly.

Current description:

Faculty Handbook

Chapter 2: Faculty Participation in University Senate

2. University Senate Constitution

Article 4. Committees

Section 18.

Non-tenure Track Instructors Committee: The Non-tenure Track Instructors Committee shall consist of six tenured faculty members, three non-tenure track instructors, two department heads/chairs, and one representative of the central administration, all with staggered three-year terms. The committee will consider the special concerns of non-tenure track instructors and may propose policies relating to the status, function, and rights of non-tenure track instructors within the University. Each fall the committee chair will inform all non-tenure track instructors of the committee's existence and purpose..

Revised description:

Non-tenure Track Instructors Faculty Committee: The Non-tenure Track Instructors Faculty Committee shall consist of three six tenured faculty members, three instructors, and three other non-tenure track instructors faculty members, two department heads/chairs, and one representative of the central administration, all with staggered three-year terms. The committee will consider the special concerns of non-tenure track faculty instructors and may propose policies relating to the status, function, and rights of non-tenure track faculty instructors within the University. Each fall the committee chair will inform all non-tenure track faculty instructors of the committee's existence and purpose.

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