Senate Document SD 98-25
(Approved, 4/12/1999)
 
MEMORANDUM
 
To: Fort Wayne Senate
From: Faculty Affairs Committee 

J. Silver, Chair
Subject: Definition of Voting Faculty
Date: March 5, 1999
Disposition: To the Nominations and Elections Committee for approval by the faculty. 

 
WHEREAS, A change in the definition of Voting Faculty in 1988 inadvertently disenfranchised some faculty pursuing graduate degrees; and

WHEREAS, The authority to award graduate degrees is vested in the parent campus rather than in the Voting Faculty of IPFW; and

WHEREAS, Academic control of the content of graduate degrees is vested in the parent campus rather than in the Voting Faculty of IPFW;

RESOLVED, That the Constitution of the Faculty be amended as follows:

Current

I. C. The Voting Faculty shall consist of those full-time members of the Faculty who are not enrolled in a degree program at IPFW and who:

  1. Hold appointments in academic units subject to those powers of the Fort Wayne Faculty detailed in Section VI, below, and perform duties at least half of which consists of teaching or other creative/scholarly work; or
  2. Hold the rank of librarian or associate, assistant, or affiliate librarian.
 

Proposed

I. C. The Voting Faculty shall consist of those full-time members of the Faculty who are not enrolled in an undergraduate degree program at IPFW nor in a graduate degree program in their home department and who:

  1. Hold appointments in academic units subject to those powers of the Fort Wayne Faculty detailed in Section VI, below, and perform duties at least half of which consists of teaching or other creative/scholarly work; or
  2. Hold the rank of librarian or associate, assistant, or affiliate librarian.
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