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SECTION 350.2 BOARD REGULATIONS ON STANDING COMMITTEE ON FACULTY RIGHTS
SOURCE: SBHE Policy Manual, Section 605.1, 605.2, 605.3, 605.4, 605.5
- Each institution shall have a Standing Committee on Faculty Rights consisting
of three or five tenured faculty members elected for staggered terms by the
faculty governance structure. The Committee shall elect its own presiding
officer annually and shall hold formal hearings in accordance with the procedures
described in section 605.4 on all matters referred to it under these policies.
The Committee shall judge any allegation of bias or conflict of interest.
In the event that an individual member is judged by the Committee to be biased
or to have a conflict of interest in a specific case, the Committee shall
replace the member with a substitute member for that case.
- 1.1
- The NDSU Standing Committee on Faculty Rights has been established
according to the bylaws of the University Senate, Part IX, Section 4.
- Each institution shall adopt procedures concerning mediation implementing
section 605.5 of these policies. Institutions shall pay all mediation costs.
- Chapter 44-04 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to open meetings and records, including section 44-04-19.2 concerning confidential or closed meetings, applies to Standing Committees on Faculty Rights. Pursuant to N.D.C.C. § 44-04-20, each committee chair shall file in the president's office the name, address and telephone number of a person who may be contacted to obtain information concerning meetings or to request notice of meetings. Proceedings concerning the appointment or removal, including nonrenewal, of a faculty member may, pursuant to N.D.C.C. § 15-10-17, be closed, unless the faculty member requests that the proceedings be open, in which case the proceedings shall be open. Proceedings not concerning the appointment or removal of a faculty member, including proceedings concerning discipline not involving dismissal, shall be open.
HISTORY: Replaces portions of Policy 605, SBHE Minutes April 25,1995, pg 6554. Amended April 25, 1995; July 1, 1996; May 10, 2000; December 2001, August 2003.