Background to the Charge

According to the Faculty Senate Bylaws, the Financial Affairs Committee is a standing committee of the Faculty Senate charged with two general functions:

1. This Committee is concerned with all questions related to financial affairs of the University, including institutional surveys, reviews and recommendations on budgeting, and financial policies of the University.
2. This Committee shall prepare annual recommendations for the improvement of faculty salaries and fringe benefits.

Committee Charge

Accordingly, the Senate Agenda Committee respectfully requests that the 2016-2017 Financial Affairs Committee prepare a report on the following charge:

1. Based on current information and any other analyses that it may wish to undertake, the Committee is asked to make recommendations on appropriate merit and market adjustment increases for FY 2017. The Committee should present its recommendations electronically on these matters to the Faculty Senate Agenda Committee by 17 November 2015 for presentation to the Senate on 9 December.
2. The Committee shall review the existing benefit and compensation structure, analyze any changes proposed by the administration, including cost-sharing practices for medical, dental and life insurance, and propose possible changes, and determine the impact of proposed changes on faculty and staff; and
3. The Committee shall investigate the possibility of changing the default for pension plans and subsidizing T-Passes.

Background to the Charge

According to Faculty Senate legislation for Standing Committees, the Full-time Non-tenure-track Faculty is to be charged with reviewing and making recommendations on matters affecting this population of the Northeastern University community.

Committee Charge

1) Examine whether full-time, non-tenure-track faculty members are appropriately protected against possible retaliation by administration and, if not, report and recommend possible steps that may be taken toward that end.

2) Consider current titles and their appropriateness to responsibilities assigned.

Background to the Charge

This Committee is concerned with the rights and status of faculty personnel, including standards of tenure, promotion, and advancement for University faculty; and questions of professional development, academic freedom, and economic welfare.

Committee Charge

The Senate Agenda Committee respectfully requests the 2015-2016 Faculty Development Committee to address the following charge:

1. The Committee shall review current tenure and tenure-on-entry practices that are outside the tenure process as defined by the Faculty Handbook. This specifically relates to the identification of outside referees, but generally may include other non-official practices;
2. The Committee shall review the results from ADVANCE and evaluate its effectiveness in promoting diversity within the University faculty;
3. Other priorities, to be determined by the Senate Agenda Committee, may be charged as they arise.

The SAC liaison shall work with the committee chair to identify a time line for one interim report. Final report(s), including appropriate recommendations, shall be submitted to the Senate Agenda Committee by the end of March 2016. SAC would like to take this opportunity to remind all Senate Committees that section 5.f. of the Senate Bylaws states that “The Faculty Senate, through its authorized committees of representatives, shall receive information that it needs for its studies from the staff offices of the University.”

Committee Charge

The Administrator Evaluation Oversight Committee (AEOC) is assigned several functions, which include the following:

1. The Administrator Evaluation Oversight Committee (AEOC) will oversee and staff administrator review committees for the purpose of evaluating of chairs, program heads, deans and the Provost in a manner consistent with the procedures delineated in the Administrator Evaluation Process. At the discretion of the Senate Agenda Committee, the AEOC may also coordinate the evaluation of non-academic units.
2. The AEOC will review the reports from the administrator review teams, analyze the results for institutional patterns, and provide a report with recommendations to the Senate Agenda Committee, to the Provost or Provost’s designee, to the appropriate vice president, or, when appropriate, to the President.