Faculty Senate

Task Force to Review Governance Documents

 

Task Force on Governance Documents Charge:

Rationale: The purpose of the proposed Task Force on Governance Documents is threefold:

1. To ensure that department and college governance documents are consistent with the expectations of shared governance as delineated in the Faculty Handbook;

2. To confirm that the practice of shared governance is recognized and valued at all levels of the institution;

3. To develop a process that affords the prerogative of shared governance to all faculty.

 

Summary Charge Statement:

The Task Force on Governance Documents is charged with developing a procedure for the ongoing review of department and college governance documents and with reviewing the governance documents of departments and colleges.

 

Commentary to Charge:

The task force will review governance documents to identify inconsistencies in the governance documents of departments within a college and to identify inconsistencies between department governance documents and their college document. The review will be guided by the standards of care found in such governance procedures as set forth by the ISU Faculty Senate and by suggestions promulgated by the AAUP and other similar organizations. The review will focus on consistency of college and department documents with respect to areas such as, but not limited to shared governance, promotion and tenure processes, post tenure review and voting procedures.

The task force will not focus on the delineation of uniform topics or criteria for the governance document of each until nor will the task force undertake policy-making. It is also not the charge of the task force to review subject matter within the auspices of the
P & T Task Force; however, the Governance Documents Task Force will benefit from the newly reconciled issues undertaken by the P & T Task Force.

The work of this task force is very important to Iowa State University and its future. The TF will report to the FS president by the end of the spring semester of 2006 as to progress that has been made. A report to the Executive Board of the FS is expected by the end of the Fall semester of 2006.

 

Task Force to Review Governance Documents Members
Chair	Max Porter	CCEE 461A Town	4-7456	mporter
AGR	Tom Loynachan	Agronomy 1126 Agronomy	4-3064	teloynac
BUS	Cynthia Jeffrey	Accounting 3366 Gerdin	4-9427	cjeffrey
DES	Dorothy Fowles	Art and Design 28r Design	4-8898	dfowles
ENG	Pete Reilly	CBE 2031 Sweeney	4-5968	reilly
HSC	Carl Smith	C&I N165B Lagomarcino	4-0317	csmith
LAS	John Mayfield	GDCB 2106 Molecular Biol.	4-6847	jemayf
LAS	Denise Vrchota	English 320 Carver	4-0501	vrchota
VET	Jim McKean	VDPAM 1710 Vet Med	4-8792	x2mckean

Final Report