51ÁÔÆæ

Motion

The 51ÁÔÆæ University Committee moves that the 51ÁÔÆæ Faculty Senate support the development of a policy that would maintain the 51ÁÔÆæ Directory hard copy and electronic listings for both emeriti and retired faculty members. Further, that the University Committee work with the Provost and Chief Information Officer to develop such a policy to be implemented in time to ensure implementation for the 2004/2005 editions of the 51ÁÔÆæ Directory. Finally, that the policy be provided to the 51ÁÔÆæ Faculty Senate for information and included in the 51ÁÔÆæ Selected Academic and Administrative Policies once finalized.

Rationale

The University Committee recieved from the 51ÁÔÆæ Retired Faculty Association (RFA), through its President Professor Emerita Carol Baumann, the following motion:

The 51ÁÔÆæ Retired Faculty Association requests the 51ÁÔÆæ University Committee to establish a policy whereby the names of professors emeriti shall not be removed from their department’s listing in the 51ÁÔÆæ Staff Directory, except in cases of demise or at the request of the said professors emeriti.

Many of our retired (and emeriti) faculty sustain an on-going professional commitment to the 51ÁÔÆæ campus community. As such, and given their desire to maintain a presence in our 51ÁÔÆæ Directories, the University Committee fully supports their request and recommends that the Faculty Senate add their support. Currently, retired/emeriti faculty are maintained for one year, post-severance, in the directories. They are then deleted. This is a database artifact, given the current process in place for getting all faculty/staff directory information. Specifically, the personnel database is used to download directory information, deleting all severed faculty one year after termination. To implement a policy to include our former colleagues post-termination will require a manual input approach, which could be electronically streamlined to ensure timely loading in of former colleague’s data.