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THE GEORGE WASHINGTON I]NTYERSITY \-, Vashington, D.C. MINUTES OF THE REGUI.AR MEETING OF THE FACULTY SENAIE HELD ON DECEMBER 14, 2O[I IN THE STATE ROOM Present: President Knapp, Provost l,etman, Registar Amundson and Padiamenadan Chatnovitz; Deans Feuer arrd Gotdman; Ptofessore Acquavivan Brazinslqy, Castleberry, Cordes, Dictrson, Garris, Greenberg, Hamano, Helget, Kim, McAleavey, Newcomer, Sidawy, Simon, and Swaine Absent: Intedm Dean Akma& Deans Bamatt, Bermao, Bmw:n, Dolling, Eskandarian, Guthrie, andJohnson; Prcfessorc Bamhifl, Briscoe, Dhuga, Dickinson, Fairfa:r, Hartington, La,ng, Parsons, Rehman, Shesser, Stotq Williams, and Yezer CALLTO ORDER The meet''rgwas calledto otder at2zl4p.m. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES Ptofessot Helgert advised that the $13 miltisn cost estitnate in the Novembef repoft of the Physical Facilities Committee fot renovation and construction of the Superdorlr, *as incorect. The cotrect amount was provided after the meeting by Dean Konwercki, who teported the cost at apptoximately $130 million. The Senate apptoved the addition of this infonnation to the meeting rninulss, aud the minutes of the meeting held on November 9, 20l2wete approved as corected. CI{ANGE IN THE ORDER OF THE AGENDA Because a quorirm was not prcsent at the beginning of the meeti.g, Professor Castlebery tequested and teceived unanimous coosent to change the otder of thi agenda so that items 51 6, and 7 could be presented as the next items of business. CAMPUS SMOKE.FREE INITIATIATTYE Vice Ptesideot fot Flurnan Resources Sabdna Ellis made a brief report. As planned, G\Fs intent to lauach the Initiative was announced on November 15. The anurouncement was the culmination of many months of activity in which students were irrvolved. Ms. Eltis also indicated that she had met with the Executive Corntnittee of the Faculty Senate and the Joint Cotnt'.ittee of Faculty and Students to discuss plans to achieve a smoke-ftee campgs. Faculty Senate Minutes, December l4r201lJ| Page2 A task fotce is now meeting to talk about how this initiative will be implemented. Therc ate four principal components, those beiog the policy itself, sign4ge to infotm everyone GW is a smoke-free catnpus, a smoking cessation prograrn, and policy enfotcement. GW cutently has a smoke-free policy that includes all buildings. The new policy will be eipanded so that it is coosistent with present D.C. law, which allows property orrnets to ban smoking 25 feet from their buildings. The policy cutrently has an irnplementation date of Septembet 1"?.013. As smoke-fr6s sarnpus programs have been put in place at othet colleges and uaiversities in the countryr therc is always a cessition component to provide assistance to smoken as the carnprrs is made emoke-ftee. In tesponse to a question by Ptofessot Castleberry about feedback on the policy, Vice President Ellis indicated that she is chairing the task force on the hculty and saffside, and Dean of Students Konwerski is chaidng on the shrdent side. The student rcpresentative on the task fotce has metwith a number of sardent organizations, and the ask force ieelf is solici*ing ftedback to be considered as the initiative morres toward futl implementation. The task fotce is discussing enforcement mechanisr"s that will be adopted in order to secr[e policy sornpliance. It will also continue discrrssi.g ways to make moie information available to the cnmpus community on how the University will move fotward with the initiative. Both Dean Konwetski and Vice President Ellis exptessed the opinion that the mote feedback was teceived and coasidered, the easier policy imptrementation would be. Vice Ptesident Ellis said she thought it would pobably be a good idea fot her to cycle back eithet to the Senate Executive Comtnittee or the Joiat Committee of Faculty aad Snrdents with updates as appropdate, or perhaps even to the Faculty senate itself. REPORT ON THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEYELOPMENT Dean Michael Feuer ptesented the teporq and disttibuted hatd copies of it at the .meeting. The relrort is included with these minutes. Dean Feuet characterized the Gtaduate School of Education and Fluman Development (GSEHD) as a small School with a big agenda, having campus locations in the Washington Mettopolitan Area as well as in Hampton Roads, Virginia. As set forth in the reporq the School consists of frve departments, each of which offets masters degree progtams' an Educational Specidist degree, and an Ed.D. progfam. A Ph.D. program in Qsuns6ling is offercd through GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. GSEHD is acctedited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the Disttict of Columbia, and two other accreditation bodies associated wilfo Qsrrns6ling and telated educational progtams, and anothet fot Rehabilitation Education. GSEHD'S many connections with local, natio.al, and international groups presents a btoad footpdnt fot the School's programs and sttategic initiatives. The School exercises a leademhip tole in many otgenizations including the Amedcan Educational Research Associatio& tlre National Board for Professional Teaching Standads (NBPTS), Chi Sigma Iota (counseling) and also collabotates with the National Capital Language Resource Faculty Senate Minutes, Decembet l4rZOlz Page 3 centet (NCLRC). of particular interest is the establishmenr of DC EdcoRE, the DC Consortium on Educational Evaluation and Reseatch. GSEHD houses 5 Centers approved by the Office of the Vice president for Research iNnecluurdoiendgu tchaet iocenn, ttehre o nc eEndutecra tfioonr PAodlvicayn, cie"rmrte n. t ro".f afp.epsue"aar cDhe vinel opDmisetnatnacl es cEiednuccea taionnd R(CeAhRabDilEit)a,t iothne ccoeunntseerr ifnogt ERxecseelalernchc ea nadn dg dEuqcuaittiyo nin ( CERduCcRaEti)o.n (CEEE) "rJri" center for - ^ R9"oq'izing the impottance of supporting the development of individual students faancdu fltayc ualntyd instteuredsetsn, tsG. SoEfH pDa teisctuablalisr hnedo-t em iusn iytr"ec oSncfheor.orP""s fEodr-uactast iothnaatr aiynrnru,paolly"i rernmga fgoer Research and Innovation (ERSI) and the conference on Fluman 5rg"r, izational Studies, otganized, by the Department of Fruman and organi zationarlea"rrnain g. NationaFli nAacllayd, eDmeya no fF eEu.teurc naotitoend, t(hNatA hEed h)a. df iiiu, st* boe_eyn. *e,le tc.te._d aosfPthreissi dheingth-elyle cret goarfd tehde otganization will begin in fa[, 2014. 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Farine aalllrye, atdryr . uin"rdreorowl aiys wveitrhy ,thhei :B}u]s"in' esso,f LMaewd, iacnind" E"nngdi nHeeeadnltfg, Sscciheonocles,s a"st ow.gel l* aiist 'wcoithto N,,u,ursi.in.-g ,c pouitb.lgic. Hore aAlt"ht*, and "r,a Faculty Senate Minutes, December l4r}0itz Page 4 Dean Feuet rcviewed data in the teport about GSEHD students &om the clrss of 2012' including rcsults- of a survey aboui why etudents enroll in graduate education progtams' the vdue of a GSEHD degtee, career p-faothuw ays, and thI hbot market fot gtaduates. Sutvey tespondents enroll in GSEHD aumbet of reasons, including ptofessioaal development, perconal growth, career chaage aad salary advancement. The vast maiodties also tate their degtees as having p-gre""p1a-t.e d them to sutceed ia their chosen ptofession aod achieve theit petsonal and career Not surptisrngfy, roughly 70% frd employment in some bmnch of the education ry"t * K-12 though f,ign"r iducation. A significant po*ion wo*^in_public agencies, nonptofit or e\ren fot-plofit Jompanies. This is lolsurpdsing because GSEHD defines education broadly as a fiid that emlraces not only K-712 and postsecondary institutions, but deals with the kind of hlman capital development rE 9l place in wod<places, the military and elsewherc. In terms of iicome, more than 600/o of GSEHD gtaduates eatn mone *han $50,(X)0 Iler yezrt when they graduate. This level of compensation seems modesq but salarie" to or niif,.r than those eamed by graduates from GSEllDrs peer institutions."re "ompaabte Dean Feuer concluded his remarks by describing th. School's progless toward achieving compliance with the Faculty_Code riqufuement that TSyo ofa ScLooI's faculty be tenuted or on the tenute traclc The School is still formatly out of compliance, but ,1o". 2010' the tend has been moving in the tight direction In 20i0, the ratio wis 6504 tenured or tenure-ftack faculty to 35oh; if tectuitments underway in the School all work oul the result fot2073 is proiecte d,at7v/o/30%. cruently, 8 seatches are in process. The teport also presents a bteakdown of the ovetall compliance ratio proiections for 201i by department. A pictue of faculty distribution with natural attrition a.pi"t" several scenarios fot rcaching the75'25oh goal ovet the next 6 years. Cleady, attdtionvia retitement and teplacement of tenurc and tenute-accnring lines and non-tenrre-accnring and conftact lines will not achieve the goal a combination of atttition and growth in tenure lines will be required. Sevetal pathways to compliance are depicted in the report, the surest of which would be to gtow the nrrnber of tenute lines substantially wbile thr Bame tirne replaciag "i non-tenuie lines with tenure lines. Dean Feuer said he thought fot a number of reasons, including the goals of the School and the Univetsity, one of the p6sl important factots foi the quafi of prigrams and the institution's reputation in the world hinges vety much on the .fi6af or wilfilgness to tecruit and rctain tenure-accruing ot tenured faculty. Also importartt ate development efforts and gowing programs that enable GSEHD tL expand, certainty into areas where enrollment gowth and research opporttrnities can be e>rpected. Ptofessot Casdebery said that the Stmtegic Plan qdll be discussed at each of the Senate meetings dutiog the spdng semester. He added that all of the members of the Senate have been asked to go back to their schools, ptogmms, and departments to make sure trrat people ate engaged in the process. A Stmtegic ptan tnat does iot have input from evety level abut the impacts of evohing trends on thi Universiqls futue direction will not be as good a plan as one wherc people have consideted how it will affect curdcular offedngs, depatments and proEranul, and recruitrnent efforts. Faculty Senate Minutes, December l4rZLt/. Page 5 Professot Castleberry said he thought that if schools and deparments do not get involved in discussions about the Plaa, the discussions will happen without them, decisio-ns will be made and go fotwatd and the chance for input will be iost. ll is important for the facutty and the Senate to seize the oppornrnity to ptovide 6saningfril iaput as the plan is finalized. It is also important fot the senate to decide how best to ,.n and transmit ttre wisdom of its cons_tituent groups to the University Administration".i Fotlowing these tematks, Ptofessot Cltlebg{asked Ptovost Lerman if he would provide ofrrt oo recent coaversations about the Plan. "o Provost kt1* spoke ld.fty about the timeline for the Sratqgic plan. The dmft Plan was distributed in eady Octobet, ?.0t2 atd, it has been the subieit of convereation at each Senate mee'iag dutiog the fall semester, eithet as a formal item or at arupdate under the Prcvost's Remarks. "g.odr During the ptocess of te-editing the draft Plan, an enormous amount of feedback has been teceived, both verbally and in vrdtiog. Most of this input has taken the fotm of comnrents made in a vatiety of fonrms invo$1g a btoad str ectnrm of campus community membets. A series of meetings was organized by Academic i6, to whicd a[ department ^Atr 3nd plogam chairs wete invited in goups of 8 to 12 to have lunch and discuss 'the plan. The goupe wete fotmed mote or less randomly so that diffetent schools were in includid in each lunch meeting- -Th*: mee 'ngs provided not only aa opportunity to provide input about the dmft PlatL but also a chance for department and p@"-. ."Lg the schools to converse with each other. \- Ptovost I*tman said he also olganized another tovrn hall meet"rg with student leadershiP, the thitd that has been held. A general toum hall for the en-tirc University community also provided input about the dmft plan. Perhap the btggest single item in that Plan that engendered the most conversation h": has to do with th9 Univercity admits undetgmdu"t .t rdeot . ThiB topic is the oae on *F"-h the ange of opinions is ptobabty the broadest. The &aft Plan recommends that GV admit students as studeaB of the Univercity, rather than as sntdents io one School. It is expected that students will find their way to the vadous Schools oret ",oiyle , somewherc in their freshman or sophomore yearc. A numbet of questions wete posed about this concepg particulady by the SEAS faculty. One is how to assue that the balance of snrdent prefetences will urdmalry more or less match the capacity of the schools. The Provost saidhe thought this san be dealt with by shaprng the Univemiqfs Admissions process to match insltilionel capacities with student intercsts an{ admit a pool of students who in all ptobabitity will disttibute themselves mote ot less in line with the capacity for teaching within the "oaogoir"tes schools. A second concenr has to do with how best to deal with progtams that arc cleady capacity limited" The School of Media and Public Atrairs (SMpi) ptgF- in Columbian College of Ate aad^Scieaces i9 a g""d example. SMPA ig a schoo-rwituin-a-schoo! with lirnited capacity. Snrdents who choose to maior in SMPA fields come from two sources. Faculty Senate Minutes, December l4r20l2 Page 6 There ate those, who fot lack of a bettet name we refer thif,k of as "pre-maiors", who express a ptefeteace durirg the Admissions process fot enrollmeat in SMPA and are admitted with the tight to be in the SMPA programs. The othet seats in the maiot ate filled, usually in the freshrr,aa ot sophomore year, by students who latet express an iatercst in SMPA and meet a grade-point avetage requfuement. By fine-tuning the GPA threshold, it is possible to match the capacity of the school and its faculty with the number of students admitted. The Provost said he believes this a good model fot the admissions process gomg forwatd. The tfritd arca afcorcem has to do with presering school identity. A number of GW aluoni identi$ sttoagly not with the University as a whole but with the school ftom which they received theit degree. At the same time, some high school students appty to GW because they have a very specific interest in a pariculat school aad no intetest in enrolling in other GW schools. The prc-maiot adoissions coocept works well with these ptospective students, as they can express a preferencen fot example, to eoroll in SMPA and leam if they can or carmot shrdy therc and make theit admissions decision accotdingly. The Provost added that othet schools have. utilized this process with the same pararnetersi, and thete ate demonstable cases whete it has worked effectively, for exarnple, at Tulane. Another piece of the pwzle is how to dign the budget model with a vety different way of poviding undetgraduate education by admitting students to the Uaiversity as a whole rather \na 1s/$tough individual schools. A detailed budget model will not be laid out in the Stategic Plan. What can be done is to outliae the pdnciples that a new budget model would follow. As an example, there should be some relationship betweea the ls2ghing of undetgtaduates and budgetaty outcomes by some metric, such as ctedit houts, eo that those schools who choose to teach more undergtaduates will have some of that reflected in theit ultimate budgets. There needs to be an incentive fot provirling uadetgraduate education, alrd the key is to detetmine the incentives the University wants to cteate and iaclude as pdnciples behind a budget model. The Ptovost then descdbed the positive considerations in itnplementing a new admissions ptocess. The most impotant reason is pedagogical. Although GW schools have articulated what eveqy student should know aad leam as part of an undetgtaduate education, the Univetsity has not A particulatly important considemtion in this effort is the tole of libetal atts studies and the acquisition of communications skills. A second positive considetation is encouraging ctoss-disciplinaty lsashing. Thete is curtently no incentive fot faculty across schools to get together and teach because eventually those credit houts are going to be "owned' by someone. Because the University ptesently counts by maiot and not by credit hout, there is no incentive to encourage collabotative effofts. The third considetation is eacouraging and incentiviziog the prcfessional schools, whete appropdate, to offer undergtaduate courses. Two of the schools that come to mind are the Gmduate School of Education and Human Development and the Law SchooL Pedagogically, this will allow the University to teach students bettet and provide a more msaningful education than it could by utilizing the present model. In addition, thete arc emerging fields where cross-disciplinary teachiag is necessary. The new Sustainability Facutty Senate Minutes, Decembet t4r?Otz Page 7 PtgSrlm is a good example. Therc ate p,rcsently five faculty membe$ ftom five different schools lsa6hing in this ptogram. To make thai Uappen under the crgent modeln it was necessary to gather a gmup of faculty f"It-g to paticipate and work out an appropdate way to administet it These grPes of teaching affaogemeat are good prospects to match to the intercets of potential donom. In conclusion, the Ptovost said there atE many other things in the dmft plan that people have comneol.9 "q maoy of which call for amplificationl As aa example, many !"9p1" have enpressed the view that qot enough has been said in the ptan about tU. VitgUl Science and Technologr Campus. There i* oot much in the plan about g,"i"* "l"o education and snrdeat life, and some strrdents have asked &a1fiis be amplified. These and a numbet of othet god ideas will be woven into the nerrt version of the H;rL Ptofeseot Simon said he thought it vety difficult to addrcss the kiads of things undergmduates should learn because so marry dipatmente and schools deal with this issue on a patochial baeis. Thete is at ptesetrt no simple way to teach a.courae that crosses multiple depatments ot multiple schools since tuition do[ais are allocated on a corr'e basie to a particulat school ot depatment Provost Lerman said he thought some of this could-be-solved by a new admissions pandigm, however, the Univerrsity Leeds to make a meaniryful staternent about what every studint shoutril leatn while at GW, independent of $eir- m1lor. This is not a mandate to be irnposed by Rice Ha[ rather it ie one that the -facu[-nas to gtapple with. Ptovost Letman aaaea that he and Professor Castleberry have been discussiag how to cteate aworkinggoup to develop ideas to addtess this. Ptofessot Castlebery concluded the discussion by speaking to the issue of accomrnodating student life concetns into the Srategic PLn.- He rilated that he had recently heatd about this, particulady about rt rdeot life, from prcsident Nadra of the StudentAssociation. Outside of the ne*ei schools, thete is a lack of adequate gathedng a1d study spece fot these Btudents. Othet imptovements both within and outeide the classtoom need to be made to enhance graduate stuaeat instnrction and intetactioa. These concems really should be addtessed in the final vetsion of the Suategic plan. RESOLUTION 12 , *A RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE PROCEDURES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FACUTTY COOE WrfH NESPE'C-rEOBETV SEARCHES" Ptofessot Gattis, Chair of the Qsrnrni6ge on professional Ethics and Academic Frcedom, introduced Resolution 12/4. Ptofessor Gards said that another vemion of the Resolution was discussed at the November Senate meeting, with the result that it was tetutned to Committee fot furthet cousidetation. Resolution- l2/4, as distributed with the agenda fot the Decembet meeting, was revised to address concerns mised dudng the discuseion in November. Ptofessor Garis said that ttre Faculqr Code has ahnays provided for the tenured faculg' at the- Univetsity to fotm the a central core of all Dean Seatch f,srn'nittees thal considet sorninatioas and relrcrt tecommendations to the Uaiversity Administation. prior to 1990, this was done enchrsi*ly by th- e lenuted frculty, irr fggo various groups in the Univemity indicated that they wished to patticipate-in these pr*.r..r. Oo December Faculty Senate Minurcs, December 14r201:L P4ge 8 14, 1990, the Senate adopted Resolution 90/9 and the Resolution was accepted by the Administtation. Resolution fl)/9 ptovided guidelines for making Dean Searches more inclusive, so that varigus gtlups corll{ be reptesented including .trd.ot (undergraduate and gmduate), ahrmni, the Boatd of Trustees, and the Univenity eaminlstration] These representatives would participate in a non-voting supporiag rcle to the elected fac.rlty search committee. The guidetiaes also ptovided that schools could include representation from any Soup that it feltwould be hetpful in the search prccess. Ptofessor Garis teminded the Senate that shortly aftet Resolution N/9 was adopted he had setved as ttre Chair of the Dean Search Committee in the School Lf n"gi"..;"g. The Cornrnittee implemented the guidelines with much enthusiasm and the tesult-was q"i; satisfactory. Since then, other schools have followed this same mode! andvirnrally aU oithe searches conducted at the University have takea this inclusive approach. Prcfeisor Garris added that he thought there is mote or less univemal fs6ling amoag the faculty that it is imponant to be inclusive, aad that input ftom these non-.roting teprisentatives is valuable the search process. Although Resolutioa Xt/9 was adopted in 1990, t}re Faculty Codewas ,rot modifred io way to teflect these guidelines. Thus, Professor Garis said thrt Resolution l2/4 is "ny essentially housekeep-g - the Codepobably should have been amended thea Professot Gatds next teviewed the ptovisions of Resolutionl[2/4. The Resolutios 6atts for modiryiag the Faculty Code by addiog a new section c) to Pa* C.2. of the Ptocedures toi tie Impleaeatatioa of the Faculty Codewhich sets forth the pnocess fot faculty participation in $e plocgss of appointing all high-level academic edministratots, including deans. The Faculty Dean Seatch Comrnittee (FDSC) will still consist of tenuted facutty membets elected by theit school. An expanded Dean Search Committee will consist of non-voting membets paticipating in the process. Resolution t2/4 cills for the FDSC to meet ii executive session to "delibetate and vote on the ctiteda for selecting a nes, Deaa, the selection of candidates fot pteliminary and final interviews and/or the se-lection of nominees to be ptesented to the faculty or approprialg 2dministrative officet in accordance with the firct sentence of paragtaph b." The Resolution also provides that the Deaa Search Committee, aftet consultation with the Provost, may invite students, staff, non-tenured faculty membettn and alumni to meet with candidates chosen for final intetviews and ptovide their recommendations to the Dean Search Co"nrnittee.,, Professor Garris commented that the last ptovision was added because there may be issues of confidentiality that have to be honorcd that might make it unwise to expand the pool of those 6sst;ng witir decanal candidates beyond the Dean seatch committee membetship. Professot Gatris mentioned one issue taised by Dean Goldman of the School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) at the November Senate meeting - that vori.g members of the Dean Seatch Cotntnittee ate limited to tenured faculty mimbets. Dean Goldman voiced concerns that this was outdated, and that non-teoor.d faculty should be able to sene and vote on ttre Faculty Dean Search Q6rntni666. This issue was discussed by the PEAF Committee, which suongly opposed the ptoposal. A pdmary reasor for this restdction is the fact that tenuted faculty are special in a number of ways. They have academic fteedom and enioy an independence of thought and expression that non-tinuted faculty do not. In addition, tenuted faculty membets undergo a tigorous selection process, following which they must demonstrate over six yeam their suitability for promotion and Faculty Senate Minutes, December l4r20t| Page 9 tenure in thtee areas: teaching, tesearch and service. These rcquiremene do not apply to non-tenrred faculty memberc. In addition, tenured faculty continually serye on Comilttees and intetact ftequently *ith the deans and other 4drninis64tors in theit schools. Prcfessot Simon indicated he could not suplDrt Resolution 1[2/4 aswritten because it did not cootain an exception fot faculty membets in the MFA who have regulat faculty titles, but have not been awatded tenure since 1985. The pool of tenurcd facJty members has not incteased sioce that time and if something is nof done, there w.ill one day be no mote tenuted faculty ia the MFA Professor Simoa aryued that this e<ception stbUA U iacluded for schools that cannot awatd tenrre. Discussion followed. Profissot Acquaviva obsered as a 1rciat of clarification that the School of Medicine and Health Scieac.-es can awatd tenrre. Ptofessot Simon agreed, but said that the vast maiority of the faculty in SMHS catnot be awatded tenure, aad he found it obiectionable thatrbecause he wodrc iot a clinical department, if he had been hircd six yeats later he could oot senre on a Faculty Dean Search Q6nrnrittes. Ptofessot Castlebery s;roke in support of the Resolution, but added that the Faculty Code does not ptovide fot the Faculty Senate a role in deneloping a policies p.rt i"i"g to one school rathet than all of the schools. Professor Gatds'sai? he ageed with prcfes"osotyt Simon that the tenure situation fot MFA/clinical hculty issue *"" io impottant issue. Elowevet, it teally does not affect the problem Resolution,ll2/4 seeh to solve. ptofessor Simon said he thought the Resolution teinforces the ptoblem, es the lack of tenured faculty disenfranchises a latge potion of the medical faculty, and he urged that consideration of the Resolution be delayed uatil this issue is resohed. \- Ptofessot Swaine commented on the second sente[ce of the firct Resohing Clause, which seems to envision that the Faculty Dean Search Qsrttrnittee that is electe-al by the tegular, active-status faculty of a particulat school be given the delegated authority to tchootlucgllrh' to irt nmoti gtoh tc oboec rbue, ttweitt hw tdhtete pna rttoic impaatkioen thoef ninonc-luvostioinng omf esmucbhe rnco. nH-veo taindgd emd ernma.b-te hrse contingent on the apptoval of the school's regular, active-status faculty, who mlgnt decide the question themselves or delegate the authority to their Faculty Dean'seatch Committee. Ptofessot also extr tessed concem about the wording of the portion of the Resolving Clause pertainlng to Faculty Dean Seatch f,srnrni66s executive sissions, which utovides that this be done after receiving recommendations from the Dean Search Committee. He sai{ h1 thought this could-be improved by clariSing that the idea is to qtovide the oppomraity fot the Deaa Search Committee to prorrid. recoi.mendations, tather than create a situation wherc a search could not proceed because the Dean Search Corrrrnittee had not done so. Fina$, Ptofessot Swaine said he was rncertain about whethet the last sentence of the fitst Resolving Clause was corect in speci$ing that recommendations of non-seatch gsmmi666 members meeting with candidates should rcpoft to the Dean Search Committee (as written) ot the Faculty Dean Seatch Committee Discussion followed. Ptofessor Gatds said he thought the sentiment (m the pEAF Committee was that it wae a bit awkwatd to have the Facilty Dean Search Committee go Faculty Seaate Minutes, December l4r20t2 Page 10 back to the regular, active-status faculty of a school to have them vote on the inclusion of non-votirg members on the full Search Cornmittee. The idea is that the Faculty Dean Seatch Cotnmittee is given the authority by the rcgulat, active-status faculty. Flowerier, it does not pteclude the Faculty Dean Search Corntnittee ftom choosing to go back to the rcgular, active-status faculty of a school to solicit advice. Professor Gafris said he had no obiection to an amendment that would clatify this pottion of the Resolving Clauee. Furthet discussion followed about the bestway do this. lo Ptofessor Swaine moved that the laoguage of the second sentence of the first Resolving Clause be modified to provide that memben of the Deaa Search Committee might be invited fot membenhip with the concurience of the appropriate faculty, or if so designated by the faculty, the Faculty Dean Search Committee and the motion was seconded. Ptofessot McAleavey exptessed support for the amendmenq aftet which a vote was taken and the amendment was appmved. Ptesident Knapp called upon Lynn Goldman, Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), who said she wanted to cladS her commenb at the last Senate meeting during which she conveyed the sentiments about Resolution ll2/4 of. turo SPHHS representatives who could oot be present She thea outlined het own views, agteeing with Ptofessor Ganis that teauted faculty are indeed special in many wa5rs, and that fact is tecognized in the SPHHS. She said that other uaivetsities petmit more engagement by non-tenuted faculty and tepreseatatives of other stakeholdess in dean searches, and GW should also do this. At these other institutioos the tenured faculty are cleady in the maiodty on the search committee, and no one is suggesring they should be outvoted by saff ot anybody else. In addition to uqging that voting not be resuicted to the tenuted faculty, Dean Goldman said she thought ft6 6mphasis on the Faculty Dean Seatch Committee going into executive session where the real discussions and decisions are made was misplaced as it crcates the feeling that everyone involved in the seatch is engaged and these opinions ate valued but the final decisions are made by the tenured facutty on the Faculty Dean Seatch Q6mtni666. Deaa Goldman concluded het rcmatks by speaking to the special role that non- tenuted faculty, including non-tenuted and reseatch faculty, play in the SPHHS. She also clarified that the School does not really utilize different ctiteda fot hiring its rcsearch faculty than it does fot tenrre-track faculty. Hrgh standards of excellence are demanded of tesearch faculty, a1ld rrnlifts tenured faculty, these individual must demonstate their worth on a year to yeer basis. Dean Goldman said she would agree ttrat the tenured faculty may have a btoadet baclgtound than their aon-tenuted colleagues aad have a better idea of what is needed in a Dean. Howevet, to say that means no one other than the tenured faculty can participate orvote should not be stated ot implied in the Dean Seatch process. Ptesident Ko^pp noted thaq due to the irnrninent loss of a quonun, the discussion would have to be continued at the next meeti.g. He urged that everyone keep the discussion in mind until then.