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12. Call meetings of their departments and consult with members of the department in
fulfilling the duties described above.
II.E.3. Service on Committees
The Faculty shall be organized into elected and appointed committees as stipulated in
the VI.3, IV, and II. Members of
committees serve routinely from June 1 to May 31 of each year.
II.E.4. Elected Committees of the Faculty
There are four elected committees: Faculty Advisory, Promotion and Tenure, Faculty
Development, and Curriculum and Standards. The membership and areas of concern for these
committees are detailed in Articles III, IV, V, and VI, respectively, of th
II.E.5. Appointed Committees of the College
Each year the Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee, appoints
committees to serve various functions. See th IV.2. for a general statement
of the powers of these committees. The following is a representative list of the types of
committees that are appointed and charged every year: Admissions and Enrollment Management
Committee, Health Professions Advisory Committee, Exploration Term/Contract Learning
Committee, Harrison Honors Committee, and Academic Advising Committee.
Additionally, ad hoc committees and task forces may be appointed from time to time to address
specific needs that may arise. These committees will be included in the consideration of a
faculty member’s workload. Every endeavor will be made to limit total committee service to
two per eligible faculty member in any given term.
CHAPTER III: CONTRACTS, TENURE, PROMOTIONS, AND
TERMINATIONS: FACULTY RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Subparts A and B of this Chapter of the Faculty Handbook state the rules and procedures
governing the employment of full-time members of the Faculty of Birmingham-Southern
College including appointment, reappointment, tenure, promotion, non-reappointment, and
termination for cause. These rules and procedures are official policy of the College and full-time
faculty members, whose individual contracts so state in explicit terms, may rely on the applicable
procedures of subparts A and B of this Chapter as part of the employment contract between the
College and the faculty member. The College commits not to change the rules and procedures in
this Chapter without consulting the Faculty Committee on Promotion and Tenure The College
2 Faculty members whose individual employment contracts do not explicitly incorporate
the provisions of Chapter III of the 2003 Faculty Handbook shall be subject to the pre-existing
guidelines and rules of the College.