Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities FY2025

Committee Details:

Committee: Faculty Rights, Privileges, and Responsibilities
Committee Category: Standing Committees of the Faculty Senate
Fiscal Year: FY2025

Members—

  • Chair: Elizabeth Berghout, Music, Faculty, Voting, 2025
  • Betsy Esch, American Studies, CLAS, Faculty, Voting, 2025
  • Eugene Parker, Education & Human Sciences, Faculty, Voting, 2025
  • Lorin Maletsky, Engineering, Faculty, Voting, 2026
  • Heminia Machry, Interior Architecture, Faculty, Voting, 2026
  • Colin McRoberts, Business, Faculty, Voting, 2027
  • Dallas Doane, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Voting, 2027

Charges—

Standing Charges

FY2025 As circumstances require:

  1. Monitor the implementation of university policies related to the rights and responsibilities of the faculty, including the following general areas (1) appointments, promotions, granting of tenure, and non-reappointments; (2) merit evaluations, rewards, and sabbatical leaves; (3) protection of the faculty’s right to privacy; and (4) intellectual property. Review all current policy statements regarding these matters to ensure that they are adequate, appropriate, and readily available to all faculty members. Report issues, problems, and recommendations to FacEx (ongoing).
  2. Respond to inquiries and address issues regarding faculty rights, privileges, and responsibilities (as they arise). 
  3. Communicate with representatives of the AAUP regarding their concerns relating to faculty rights, privileges, and responsibilities.  Report issues, problems, and recommendations to FacEx (ongoing).

Specific Charges

  1. Continue to monitor and review policies regarding creation of online courses.
  2. Explore solutions to the low response rate of the Student Survey of Teaching and its implications for HLC requirements and related faculty responsibilities to provide quality education.
  3. Explore adequacy of the delivery of information to faculty about Intellectual Property (e.g., when it comes to course materials such as syllabi, exams; Jayhawk Global).
  4. In response to students’ growing use of AI (e.g., ChatGPT) in coursework, determine if existing policy is sufficient regarding rights faculty have to change past grades when academic misconduct is discovered on assignments already graded.
  5. Formalize FRPR communication with Faculty Senate to ensure the committee is aware of relevant discussions and are able to act accordingly.
  6. Monitor the implementation of the Simple Syllabus program and report to the Faculty Senate about possible impacts on other issues studied by FRPR in its standing or specific charges.
  7. Be prepared to consult with United Academics of the University of Kansas (UAKU), if requested, in matters relevant to the work of the committee

 

Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities FY2025