The Faculty Personnel Committee is comprised of two student representatives and ten faculty representatives. The committee advises the University Provost on issues that affect the relationship between students and faculty, and work to improve student-faculty relations, faculty diversity and competitive wages.

FACULTY PERSONNEL COMMITTEE

CHARGE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Faculty Personnel Committee shall be responsible for advising the Provost on all tenure and promotion cases.

MEMBERSHIP:

1) FPC Membership. Membership of the Faculty Personnel Committee is fixed and shall consist of ten (10) members who are elected to staggered two-year terms.  No person may serve two consecutive terms. Five (5) members shall hold appointments in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Five (5) members shall hold appointments in the Professional Schools and Colleges. Only regular tenured Officers of Instruction with academic departmental, school, or college appointments of 0.5 FTE or greater are eligible to serve on the FPC. The word `regular' excludes adjunct, visiting, and courtesy appointments. The President, Vice-Presidents, Provost, Vice-Provost, Associate or Assistant Provosts, Dean or Associate Deans are ineligible to serve on the FPC. Department heads in the CAS are ineligible to serve on the FPC. No individual may serve on the FPC during a year when his or her promotion case will come before the FPC and must resign from the FPC if this happens. No more than one person from the same department in any School or College with departments shall serve at the same time on the FPC; no more than one person from any School or College without Departments may serve at the same time on the FPC. No person shall serve simultaneously on the Faculty Advisory Council and the Faculty Personnel Committee.

2) Election of FPC members. Only members of the voting faculty who are Officers of Instruction with tenure or in tenure track positions shall be eligible to vote for elections to the FPC. The Secretary of the Faculty, with the help of the University Senate, shall ensure that the number of candidates nominated shall be at least one more than the number of open positions in both the College of Arts and Sciences and in the Professional Schools and Colleges. Candidates for the FPC may be nominated by any person who is eligible to vote in the election for that position. Except in instances of self-nomination, the nomination must be accompanied by evidence that the person nominated is willing to serve in the position. Separate ballots shall be prepared for the candidates from CAS and the Professional Schools and Colleges. Both ballots shall be circulated to all eligible voting Officers of Instruction. All members shall be elected for two-year terms, except for those filling vacancies in unexpired terms. Elections for the FPC shall be held in the spring quarter.

3) Student participation: Two University students, nominated by the appropriate procedures within the ASUO and appointed by the President, shall serve as voting participants in the deliberations of the committee. The student participants are to abide by the usual regulations adopted by the committee for its members.

4) Selection of the Chair: The FPC shall meet in the spring quarter subsequent to the election of the new members. The continuing members and the new members shall elect a chair for the following year. 

5) Resignations: A member of the FPC who does not serve out his or her full term shall be replaced by the normal election process if possible, and if not, the person who received the next highest vote in most recent election for the position shall be appointed to serve out that term.

REPORTING:

The Faculty Personnel Committee shall report to the University Senate. At a minimum this report shall be in the form of an annual written report for the previous academic year submitted by the Committee Chair to the Secretary of the University Senate no later than the first University Senate meeting in October. The committee shall also make additional written or oral reports to the Senate as necessary.