Resolution 98/99-11

AMENDING CHAIR SELECTION PROCEDURE IN FACULTY HANDBOOK

Whereas, the Provost’s and Academic Senate’s Joint Sub-Committee on the Review of Deans and Department Chairs has found that:

1.    "Fundamental to the success of a Chair is a capacity to coalesce interest and commitment to this objective with his or her faculty"

2.    "The core ingredient is that whatever steps are taken are believed by those  who take time to be serving their interest, and that their stake in a common venture is enhanced by taking them.

Whereas, elections add credibility and serve to imbue a Chair with increased power to coalesce interest among the faculty.

Therefore, it is resolved that the Academic Senate recommends to the President of the University of Southern California that the Faculty Handbook, Section 2-1 (C) Academic Organization be revised by replacing words "and/or" with the word "and" in the paragraph concerning procedures for appointment of department chairs.
 
 

Resolution Number: 98/99-11                                                     Motion by: Engineering Faculty Council
Date: April 14, 1999 
To be presented at meeting held: May 12, 1999
(Tabled at the April 21, 1999 meeting)

 Action taken: Passed, with 12 in favor, 8 opposed,  7 abstentions