VI. Personnel Committee

Section 1. Organization

The Assembly Personnel Committee shall consist of six (6) members elected by the teaching faculty of the Assembly. Three (3) members shall be from the School of Arts & Sciences and three (3) members shall be from the School of Education and Business Programs.

Section 2. Membership

1. Only tenured teaching faculty may be elected to and serve on the Assembly Personnel Committee. At least one of the faculty members elected to the Assembly Personnel Committee from each School must also be a member of the School's Personnel Committee. Faculty members are elected to two-year terms.
2. No faculty member shall serve on the Assembly Personnel Committee in a year when the faculty member is being considered for promotion.

Section 3. Duties and Responsibilities

1. To recommend to the Assembly such policies regarding evaluation, procedures, tenure, and promotion as it deems appropriate and advisable.
2. To recommend to the University President and Provost such policies regarding salary as the Committee deems appropriate and advisable, and shall report to the Assembly on current policies and practices.
3. To receive and review all School Personnel Committee and School Dean recommendations for tenure, promotion, merit, post-tenure review, continuing review, sabbatical leave, and termination. The Assembly Personnel Committee shall add its own recommendation and rationale to each case before forwarding them to the Provost and the affected faculty member.
4. To meet with faculty members, when requested, about Committee decisions.
5. To meet, if necessary, with the University President or the Provost to discuss preliminary presidential decisions before implementation.