2005-2006
FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento
AGENDA
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Foothill Suite, 3rd Floor, University Union
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
CONVERSATION WITH FACULTY TRUSTEE CRAIG SMITH (CSU, LONG BEACH) [3:10]
REPORTS:
CONSENT CALENDAR
CONSENT ACTION
| FS 05-70/Ex. | COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT - UNIVERSITY |
Campus Educational Equity Committee
Rhonda Rios Kravitz, Library, 2007
REGULAR AGENDA
| FS 05-71/Flr. | APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 17, 2005 |
SECOND READING
| FS 05-69/Ex. | UARTP DOCUMENT - AMEND SECTION 6.06.D |
BACKGROUND: The Executive Committee’s recommended policies address the need for sharing accurate information with the faculty search committees related to our campus commitment to the “active elimination of discrimination and the affirmative recruitment of a diverse, multi-racial community of students, faculty, and staff.” (President Gonzalez, letter accompanying Update to Affirmative Action Plan in Compliance with Executive Order 11246, dated October 31, 2003) The issue involves competing needs for legal compliance, commitment to diversity, and departmental prerogatives re: faculty hiring. The need for accurate information on this issue has been accentuated by the passage of Proposition 209 in California and the consequent uncertainties about strategies and processes. Concerned members of the university community express sentiment that recruitment processes have not been effective to date in generating strong and diverse pools of applicants for faculty positions. The manner in which that information is presented to departmental faculty committees raises sensitive issues of mandated processes and external control.
This issue has been worked on by the Committee on Diversity and Equity (CODE) and the University Appointment, Retention, Tenure and Promotion Committee (UARTP) over the last several years. In the Spring of 2005, the Executive Committee received a report from UARTP expressing its recommendations (letter from UARTP Chair Dillon dated May 11, 2005 - caution: the file is 39 pages long) concerning the CODE proposal (Recommendations for Revisions to PM FSA 02-11, section D, dated October 2002, revised 4/19/05) and began a series of discussions and meetings with representatives of several groups and the University Counsel and Vice President for Human Resources. Over the last two months we have developed the recommendations for consideration by the Senate.
Note: The language itself has not changed from first reading, but merely reorganized into three distinct subject areas: 1) Election, Status, Service of the Search Committee Chair, Department Chair and Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Representative; 2) AA/EOR Roles and Responsibilities; and 3) Training.
The Faculty Senate recommends amending the University ARTP document, Section 6.06.D as outlined in Attachment A.
The transmittal memo from the Executive Committee to the Senate can be found at Attachment B-1 from the November 17, 2005 Faculty Senate agenda.
INFORMATION
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