Roster
Chair
Allen Edmonson, MD (Medicine - clinical)
Faculty Senators
Syamal Bhattacharya (Medicine - clinical)
Waleed Gaber (Medicine - basic)
Andrea Franks (Pharmacy)
Beth Bowman (Allied Health)
Ed Harris (Dentistry)
Hammond Cole (Medicine - clinical)
Linda Ross (Allied Health)
Mark LeDoux (Medicine - clinical)
Amado Freire (Medicine - clinical)
Eldridge Johnson (Medicine - basic)
Sid Stein (Dentistry)
Muammer Cetingok (Coll. Social Work)
Non-Senate Members (ex-officio)
Probably: Cheryl Scheid, V-C for Academic, Faculty and Student Affairs, and R.A. (Dino) Palazzolo (Senior Consultant, Academic Affairs)
Responsibilities and Goals
Responsibilities: Specific areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to, policies and recommendations related to the following:
- Policies for appointment, promotion, and tenure
- Policies for off-campus assignments and leaves of absence
- Policy for discharge for cause
- Evaluation of administrators
- Procedures for faculty performance assessment
- Workshops on promotion and tenure
- Policy on consulting
- New faculty orientation
Goals:
- New Faculty Orientation (in consultation with the Budget and Benefits Committee), include information concerning allocation for retirement and regulations for 50% cashability at retirement
- In conjunction with the Budget and Benefits Committee, ensure uniform implementation of Research Incentive Policy to all colleges, as well as to clinical faculty members relative to their basic science counterparts
- Off-campus assignments and Faculty Development with leaves of absence
- Initiate discussion to change the off-campus assignments and Faculty Development Policy as the Faculty Sabbatical Policy as approved for TUK by the Board of Trustees
- Clarification of tenured salary and official structure of the appointment and reappointment letters
- Revisit alternative policy for the post-tenure review of the faculty
