Draft of bylaws
The CEHHS Senate is responsible for keeping the bylaws of the College up to date (section 7.4) and thus took on the project this year of bringing our College's bylaws into line with the new UT Faculty Handbook. We used the opportunity presented by this task to make other changes necessary to "clean up," clarify, and add information aimed at making the bylaws a more useful tool.
Click on the link above to see the explication of the changes and gain access to a PDF of the complete document. On that page you are also welcome to make comments and have discussion about concerns and praise about the new document.Alignment with UT Faculty Handbook:
The proposed changes to our bylaws necessary to bring it into line with the Faculty Handbook revisions are highlighted in red. These changes can be found in the following sections:
3.1.1 (cut and pasted from Faculty Handbook)
3.1.1.3, 3.1.1.4 (cut and pasted from Faculty Handbook)
3.1.2.2, 3.1.2.3 (modified from Faculty Handbook to apply to Associate/Assistant Deans)
3.1.3 (cut and pasted from Faculty Handbook)
3.1.3.3, 3.1.3.4 (cut and pasted from Faculty Handbook)
Clean up/Clarify/Add
The proposed changes to our bylaws to fine tune them are highlighted in blue. These changes can be found in the following sections:
1.1 add "hereinafter referred to as the College" to save us from repeating the entire name
3.2 add "If department names change through appropriate procedures this section shall be updated without holding a vote" to prevent the need for bylaws amendment votes on this issue
5.2 changing "Dean's Executive Committee" to "Dean's Advisory Council" to reflect current practice
5.3.6 complicated procedures for election of senate president, that have never been logically possible in practice, are deleted and the president is simply elected for one year by the senators
5.3.15 "within two weeks of each CS" meeting is deleted as it is not always possible when faculty are serving as scribes in addition to their regular responsibilities
5.4.4 the previous information in this section is deleted as the publication of meeting minutes makes it not necessary for CRC chairs to give oral reports at senate meetings. The section previously numbered 5.4.5 is now 5.4.4,and so on
5.6 add "...not under the jurisdiction of another University entity" for clarification
5.6.2 change to simplify and to reflect current practice
5.7.2 add "Through granting college-level awards" to clarify, remove sentence about Faculty Development Awards as that procedure has changed at the university level and no longer requires this step.
5.8 add Technology Advisory Committee--the senate in discussion with the ad hoc technology advisory committee members and with Associate Dean Cagle decided this committee needs to be a permanent one
Another change, throughout the document
"Tenure leading" has been changed to "tenure track" and "Full Professor" has been changed to "Professor."
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