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At least two (2) meetings shall be convened during each academic year. Special meetings may be called at the written request of ten (10) percent of the membership at large or by seventy-five (75) percent of the faculty’ of any College or School when such a request is presented to the Chairperson or Vice Chairperson. The Chairperson or Vice Chairperson must respond to such requests for special meetings by circulating a written notice of the special meeting call within three (3) university working days subsequent to receiving the petition or request. B. Agenda: The Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and the Secretary shall determine the agenda for all meetings except emergency’ or special meetings. Emergency and special meetings shall be called for a specific purpose and that purpose shall determine the agenda and shall be so stated in any meeting notices. All meeting notices shall contain an agenda. Except in the case of special or emergency meetings, members of the Faculty Assembly may submit or communicate in writing to the Chairperson or Vice Chairperson any items for consideration on the agenda under the general headings of either old or new business. Such submissions for inclusion on the agenda may be made up to and including five (5) university working days before the scheduled meeting. Any items not completed on a meeting agenda must be included on the next available meeting agenda unless these items have been indefinitely suspended by a vote of the assembly, are tabled until a specific date, or are handled by the assembly in some other manner consistent with Robert’s Rules of Order, latest edition. C. Quorum: A quorum shall consist of ten (10) percent of the Assembly’s membership, or thirty five members, whichever is smaller. D. Succession: In the absence of the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson, the succession for presiding officer shall go from the Vice-Chairperson to the Secretary to the Treasurer to the Parliamentarian to the Assistant Secretary, and then to any member of the Assembly so elected by the Assembly. ARTICLE V AMENDMENTS This Constitution may be amended by a three-fourths (3/4) vote of the members present and voting at a meeting called for that purpose. The amendments (additions and/or changes) shall be distributed to the membership at least thirty (30) calendar days prior to any meeting at which a vote is required; such a meeting must be called and the agenda distributed at least ten (10) working days in advance of such a meeting. ARTICLE VI COMMITTEES A. University Committee on Rank, Tenure, Promotion and Salary: The Faculty Assembly shall elect annually tenured faculty members to serve on the University Committee on Rank, Tenure, Promotion and Salary. The composition of the Committee shall be as follows: One (1) member from the College of Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences, one member from the College of Science and Technology; one (1) member from the library faculty; one 76
(1) member from each of the remaining Schools and Colleges within TSU. No “current department chair or other faculty member who currently holds an appointment that reviews matters within the jurisdiction of the Committee may serve as a member of the committee. Members of this Committee shall serve two-year terms, but terms shall be staggered so that approximately one-half of the committee members’ terms shall expire in alternate years. The functions of the Committee are to (1) review the recommendations and the denials thereof which originate at the library, departmental, school, and college levels with regard to rank, tenure, promotion and salary; (2) monitor the processes and criteria by which faculty members are promoted or advanced from one rank to another; (3) monitor compensation with regard to merit pay, salary disparity, and salary inequity; and (4) make such reports to the administration as might be appropriate based upon its reviews and findings. B. Faculty Advisory Committee: This Committee shall be constituted according to the provisions called for in the TSU Faculty Manual. C. Faculty Hearing Committee. This Committee shall be constituted according to the provisions called for in the TSU Faculty Manual. D. Budget Committee: This Committee shall be constituted as provided for in the TSU Faculty Manual. E. Committee on Inquiry: The Committee on Inquiry shall be a standing committee of the Assembly whose members have Ad Hoc status and who are appointed by the Assembly Chairperson. The purpose of this Committee shall be to provide a mechanism for faculty members, individually or collectively, to initiate inquiry into matters pertaining to administrative impropriety. The charge of this Committee shall be to determine if there exists a substantial basis for any complaint lodged by the faculty or a faculty member. Should the Committee determine that there is sufficient evidence to warrant an inquiry, it is further vested with plenary power to investigate charges identified in the faculty’s complaint and to report formally its findings and/or recommendations to the Faculty Assembly, Faculty Senate, the President of the University, and/or the TSU Board of Regents, as well as to any other involved parties. Access to the Committee’s services can be achieved through: (1) written petition by the aggrieved party to the office of the Faculty Assembly, (2) through the office of the Provost, or (3) to the office of the President. F. Advisory Committee to the Faculty Manual: This Committee shall be constituted as provided for in the TSU Faculty Manual. G. Faculty Research Committee: This Committee shall be constituted as provided for in the TSU Faculty Manual. H University Library Committee: This Committee shall be constituted as provided for in the TSU Faculty Manual. I. Faculty Grievance Committee: This Committee shall be constituted as provided for in the TSU Faculty Manual. 77
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