To: Zach Flanagin, Chair, Academic Senate

From: Jim Sauerberg, Faculty Handbook Coordinator

Date: October 12, 2017

RE: Needed change in “ranked faculty” in Faculty Handbook

The Faculty Handbook has traditionally used “ranked faculty” to mean those Saint Mary’s faculty members whose names appear on the Rank & Tenure roster. And “adjunct faculty” and “part-time faculty” and “lecturer” to refer to those Saint Mary’s faculty members who have non-tenure-track appointments.

With the advent of the Collective Bargaining Agreement these terms have become incorrect. First, Bargaining Unit Faculty Members now also have ranks (Assistant and Associate). Second, we now use “adjunct” to include all non-tenure-track faculty members.

I intend to make the following changes to the Handbook:

a)“ranked faculty” to be replaced by “tenure-track faculty” whenever appropriate

b)“tenured faculty” to be kept

c)references to “adjunct faculty” and “part-time faculty” and “lecturer” to be replaced by “Salaried Adjunct” and “Assistant Adjunct” and “Associate Adjunct” and “Bargaining Unit Faculty” as appropriate. (This is largely (completely?) already accomplished.)

d)“faculty” to be used, as always, when referring to, well, all faculty members

I don’t believe any of these are controversial or changes in policy. With this note, I am informing the Senate of these changes. If you feel formal adoption is necessary, please consider doing so.

Below I attach an example.

1.6.1.1.5Voting Rights

  1. Elections conducted by the Committee on Committees:
  2. Tenure-trackRankedFaculty.All tenure-trackrankedfaculty will automatically receive notice that the election ballot has been electronically posted. Faculty members may vote in one School only.For school-designated positions, all faculty members must declare on the preference survey which pool of eligibility for which they qualify, determined by the School where the majority of courses are taught in a given scholastic year.
  3. Voting eligibility of Salaried Adjunct, Assistant Adjunct and Associate Adjunct faculty will be determined by the Office of Academic Affairs. the Provost’s office. Each year, by the beginning of the spring semester, the Office of Academic Affairs the Provost’s offices must submit to the Faculty Governance Coordinator a roster of eligible Salaried Adjunct, Assistant Adjunct and Associate Adjunct faculty who are teaching one or more full courses in the then current academic year.