[Faculty] Senate Update Plus

Wed Apr 6 14:53:15 MST 2016

Dear Fellow faculty,

This past Monday's Senate meeting had some very good conversation and
several items were addressed that I thought you might be interested in.  If
you want to see the summaries of past meetings, go to
http://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/faculty-senate/senate-agendas.  

1.  The Senate voted to approve the UA Open Access policy for publications.
A copy of that policy is at
http://new.library.arizona.edu/research/open-access/policy.  In short, the
University will be working with faculty to make their journal articles
available to all through the UA Campus Repository.  They will work with the
journals to assure there is no copyright infringement before anything is
published.  More will be forth coming on exactly how this will all take
place, the procedures, etc.  Check out the article in Lo Que Pasa
https://uaatwork.arizona.edu/lqp/faculty-senate-approves-policy-expand-publi
c-access-ua-research?utm_source=lqp
<https://uaatwork.arizona.edu/lqp/faculty-senate-approves-policy-expand-publ
ic-access-ua-research?utm_source=lqp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_lq
p> &utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_lqp. 

2.  We also had a lively discussion about proposed changes to the University
Handbook for Appointed Personnel.  The proposed changes can be found at
http://policy.arizona.edu/faculty-affairs-and-academics/proposed-revisions-u
niversity-handbook-appointed-personnel.  Look them over and let me know if
you have any concerns. 

3.  Finally, there was much discussion about Non-Tenured Track
(Non-Continuing Track) faculty positions and how they are represented at the
University.  There were discussions about who are included in the category
"General Faculty."  As I understand it, if you are on a multi-year contract
(MY), Continuing or Continuing eligible (C/CE), Tenured or Tenure eligible
(T/TE), or hold an Emeritus status, you are General Faculty.  If you are on
a year-to-year (YTY) contract, you are not, regardless if you've been here
on a YTY for the last 10 consecutive years.  And there's the rub - we have
many faculty, on YTY contracts for multiple years.  This is an ongoing
conversation and I know your Senators would like to hear your views.  A
couple links to look at are:

http://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/facgov/files/nte_in_colleges.pdf
- This shows the data from 2014 of various faculty positions within colleges
at the UA.

http://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/facgov/files/what_does_it_mean_to
_be_a_member_of_the_general_faculty_0.pdf   - These are two proposals that
the Senate never got to because we simply ran out of time.  

I welcome any comments or questions regarding these or any issues you would
like to address.

Regards,

Ed Martin, Senator-at-Large

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**Doing something once is worth more than seeing it done a thousand times**

Edward C. Martin, Ph.D.                                 Tel:  (602) 827-8200

County Extension Director                             Fax: (602) 827-8292

Maricopa County  Cooperative Extension

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E-Mail:  ecmartin at email.arizona.edu <mailto:ecmartin at email.arizona.edu> 

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