Resolution: 99/00-06
WHEREAS protecting tenure is essential to
protecting academic freedom and to advancing the educational mission of the university,
WHEREAS dismissing tenured faculty should occur
only for good cause and only after adhering to the highest standards of fairness and due
process,
BE IT RESOLVED THAT,
the Academic
Senate asks the Administration to replace the paragraph on faculty dismissal in the
document labeled Faculty Handbook 1998 (Section 3-6 Conditions on Tenure) that reads
“Tenured
faculty may be dismissed, demoted, or prematurely retired for adequate cause (See section
on Faculty Dismissals) only upon proof of one or more of the following: serious neglect of
duty; incompetence; major violations of academic freedom; misconduct; dishonesty; conflict
of interest that brings severe injury or discredit to the University; or moral turpitude
related directly and substantially to the fitness of the faculty member in his/her
professional capacity as a teacher or researcher.”
with text
regarding faculty dismissal from the 1987 version of the Faculty Handbook that reads
“Tenured
faculty may be dismissed, demoted, or prematurely retired for adequate cause (See section
on Faculty Dismissals) only upon proof of one or more of the following: serious neglect of
duty; incompetence; major violations of academic freedom; misconduct, dishonesty, or
conflict of interest that brings severe injury or discredit to the University; moral
turpitude related directly and substantially to the fitness of the faculty member in
his/her professional capacity as a teacher or researcher.”
This
proposed language makes exactly two changes to the current language: (1) it replaces the
semicolons after ‘misconduct’ and ‘dishonesty’ with commas and (2) it
moves the logical connective ‘or’ from the beginning of the last clause to the
beginning of the clause that begins with the phrase conflict of interest.’
Resolution
Number: 99/00-06
Motion
by: Engineering Faculty Council
Date: April 25, 2000
Seconded:
??Harvey Kaslow
Tabled at May 10, 2000 Senate Meeting
Action
taken: Passed with 14 in favor, no opposed
and 2 abstentions