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Agenda of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Assembly

The Faculty Assembly will meet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13 in 70 Van Allen Hall.

Please sign one of the attendance sheets available at the door.

1. Discussion/amendment/approval of the minutes of the February 2002 meeting of the Faculty Assembly.

2. Motion to approve the revision of the College's clinical faculty policy. Executive Associate Dean Raúl Curto will explain the revisions to the College's clinical faculty policy, submitted with a motion to approve by the Executive Committee (see attached pdf file), which would permit the appointment of unsalaried clinical faculty members. Unsalaried clinical faculty perform functions similar to those of adjunct faculty, but are appointed and evaluated under the criteria for clinical faculty appointments rather than those for tenure-track faculty appointments. Like salaried clinical-track appointments, unsalaried appointments would be authorized only in departments with academic programs subject to professional accreditation. (Four departments in the College currently have salaried clinical faculty: Music, Psychology, Social Work, and Speech Pathology & Audiology.) If the revised policy is approved by the Faculty Assembly, it will be transmitted to the Provost for approval.

3. Discussion of criteria for adjunct faculty rank. The Executive Committee has requested that the Faculty Assembly discuss the attached options (pdf file) for the section on "Appointment to Adjunct Faculty Status" in the Handbook for CLAS Faculty. Before deciding on which option to pursue, the EC would like to hear from departments what the standards are for the use of the "adjunct" designation in the various disciplines represented in the College.

4. Nominating committee. The three-person nominating committee acts to ensure that there will be at least one candidate nominated for each open Assembly office next year (i.e., vice chair and secretary). The organizational meeting at which next year's officers will be elected will take place at next month's Faculty Assembly meeting.

5. Proposed revision of the Foreign Language Incentive Program. The Educational Policy Committee submits the attached revision of FLIP (pdf file) for the Assembly's approval.

Questions about Faculty Assembly can be directed to Cheryl Walsh (353-2639).