Ex Com E-Vote_Motion On Support of Faculty Council Statement On Chancellor Search 5_31_19

FSU EX COM E-VOTE 5/31/19

Ex Com was asked by email on 5/29/19 to vote on the following. The FSU Executive Committee voted to release the statement as modified below. The motion passed by majority vote.

From: Jeffrey Melnick

Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:21 AM

To: Monique Fuguet; Tim Sieber

Cc: Joseph Ramsey; Marlene Kim; Jason Rodriquez; Caroline Coscia; Faculty Staff Union; Ellen Frank; Emilio Sauri; Jessica R Holden; Joseph Brown; Peggy Walsh; Steve Striffler; LaPenn, Heather; Gillian MacNaughton; Catherine Mazza

Subject: Motion



I submit the following motion to the FSU Executive Committee after having spoken with members of FC Executive Committee to get their feedback.



"With this motion, the FSU Executive Committee agrees to endorse--in a blast email to members, also to be sent to Martin Meehan and Robert Manning--the central arguments of  the 5/23/19 letter issued by the Faculty Council Executive Committee with respect to the Chancellor Search Committee.  We especially call attention to and support the following two arguments.



      We think that the search committee should be composed of a majority of faculty and, barring a majority, that faculty should comprise at least half the search committee.



      We think that the Faculty Council should have final discretion in choosing which faculty sit on the search committee, not the Board or Search Committee Chair (as currently mandated by Board of Trustee governance documents).



At the same time that we issue this public statement, the FSU Executive Committee will also send a private communication to Faculty Council urging them to nominate at least one colleague for the search committee who is particularly attuned to matters of NTT work on the UMB campus."



Can I get a second?



all best



Jeff

FINAL STATEMENT

The Executive Committee of the FSU endorses the recent statement by the UMB Faculty Council Executive Committee with respect to the Chancellor Search Committee. We especially call attention to and support the following two points: 1) The search committee should be composed of a majority of faculty and, barring a majority, that faculty should comprise at least half the search committee. 2) The Faculty Council should have final discretion in choosing which faculty sit on the search committee, not the Board or Search Committee Chair (as currently mandated by Board of Trustee governance documents).