Effective Date: June, 22 2012
Last Reviewed: June, 22 2012
1. Departmental Responsibilities:
- Faculty are expected to be active participants and contributors to their respective academic departments. Faculty are expected to contribute to curriculum review and development, faculty searches, and other departmental functions, as requested by the department chair. Full-time faculty members are expected to attend all meetings of their department.
- In addition, faculty must attend to the development of the Library collection, most particularly within their own disciplines. Typically, requests or recommendations are to be submitted to the Acquisitions Librarian though extraordinary requests should be discussed with the Library Director.
2. College-wide Responsibilities:
- Faculty Senate and Assembly Meetings: Faculty members are expected to attend all meetings of the Faculty Assembly and to vote in all faculty elections, unless prevented from doing so by official duties or other serious reasons. Faculty members are invited to attend all meetings of the Faculty Senate.
- Faculty Governance: Faculty governance rests on the assumption that Faculty hold a substantive role in decision-making in several identified areas in the life of the College including the curriculum, faculty professional development, and faculty rank and tenure. It is expected that faculty will participate in faculty governance through service on the Faculty Senate, the Standing Committees of the Senate, the Board of Fellows, the Rank and Tenure Committee and other committees reporting to all the divisions of the College. Generally, no faculty member should serve on more than two College standing committees at any one time.
- Attendance at College Functions: Faculty members are expected to attend the major academic events of the College, including the Academic Convocation, Commencement, Academic Development Days, and Academic Achievement Day.