NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
NAME: Faculty Benefits Committee
ARTICLE II
OBJECT:
A.
The Faculty Benefits
Committee shall review, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning those
policies, procedures, and programs related to faculty benefits; in particular
those policies dealing with insurance, retirement, salary schedules, academic
leaves, summer fellowships, institutional project grants, deferred
compensation, the credit union, travel allowance, and reassigned time.
B.
It shall process
applications of and make recommendations on candidates for faculty Sabbatical
Leaves, Faculty Project Grants, Faculty Summer Fellowships and other programs
assigned by the Faculty Senate.
ARTICLE III
OFFICERS:
With
approval of the committee majority, the chairperson shall appoint a secretary
to keep minutes of all meetings. Except
for presiding in the chairperson's absence, the secretary shall not be required
to perform additional duties.
ARTICLE IV
MEETINGS:
A.
The chairperson shall
call meetings by notifying the committee members approximately one week in
advance. To assure maximum attendance by committee members, the chairperson
shall be consistent in the scheduling of meetings and choose times convenient to
as many members as possible.
B.
A committee majority
shall constitute a quorum, and unless otherwise specified, decisions shall be
made by the majority in attendance.
C.
Proxy votes shall be
allowed only when approved by the majority at the time of voting.
ARTICLE V
STANDING SUBCOMMITTEES AND THEIR
APPOINTMENT:
A. The chairperson
shall appoint members, with their consent to the subcommittees for
1) Faculty
Sabbatical Leaves,
2) Faculty Summer
Fellowships, and
3) Faculty Project
Grants and
4) Any other
programs assigned by the Faculty Senate.
B. Each
subcommittee shall consist of at least four members, one of whom shall be
appointed subcommittee chairperson by the FBC chairperson.
C. Whenever
possible, each program cluster from which one or more proposals originate shall
have at least one FBC member represent it in the subcommittee.
D. Committee
members who are applicants for a leave, fellowship or grant shall not be a
member of the subcommittee reviewing the proposal nor shall they be present at
the meeting of the full committee at the time their proposal is discussed and
voted upon.
E. Procedures for
evaluating and rank-ordering faculty proposals submitted to the committee shall
be as follows.
1) Applications
from NKU Faculty for faculty Sabbatical Leaves, Faculty Summer Fellowships, and
Faculty Project Grants shall be received by the committee and subcommittees
according to the form prescribed in the Faculty Policies and Procedures
Handbook (FPPH).
2) Applications
received after the deadline stated in the FPPH shall only be allowed with the
permission of the applicant's Dean, plus the majority of the FBC.
3) Proposals
submitted to the FBC, including the program chairperson's comments on each
proposal, shall be collected into two separate sets by the chairperson.
4) One set shall
be made available to the appropriate subcommittee for its careful review and
consideration in determining the rank-ordering of candidates. The chairperson shall be certain to make
this set available to the
subcommittee no later than one week after the deadline for submitting proposals
to the FBC.
5) A second set,
including the same information, shall be made available by the committee
chairperson to all other members of the full committee for review. A record shall be kept of those committee
members who have reviewed the proposals.
Only those committee members who have reviewed the proposals shall be
eligible to vote their approval or disapproval of the subcommittee's
rank-ordering.
6) a. All
proposals will be initially read and evaluated by each member of the subcommittee
independently and without consultation.
b. Each proposal shall be assigned a numerical value,
on a scale of 0 through 4, by each subcommittee member.
c. After each subcommittee member has read, evaluated,
and assigned a numerical value to each proposal the subcommittee will then meet
to discuss their evaluations and rank-order proposals.
1.
The initial rank-ordering shall be arrived at by
calculating the average numerical value for each proposal.
2.
This initial rank-ordering may be adjusted by the subcommittee
to reconcile marked differences among subcommittee members in the evaluation of
a given proposal(s).
7)
The rank ordering shall
be approved by three-fourths vote of the entire subcommittee. The subcommittee
chairperson shall then be responsible for reporting the decision to the
FBC. Should any irresoluble differences
of opinion occur within the subcommittee, the chairperson will inform the full
committee of the circumstances and specific points of disagreement. Should no agreement on a rank-ordering be
forthcoming, the subcommittee chairperson will state so and submit his/her
rank-ordering of applicants to the full committee.
8)
At least two weeks
before the FBC is to report its findings to the Provost, the subcommittee shall
have made available its decision to the full committee.
9)
The committee shall
then approve by a two-thirds vote the rank-ordering of applicants as submitted
by the sub-committee chairperson, or as amended, subject to Article V E5.
10) All proposals, chairperson's comments and
recommendations of the subcommittee and the full committee for each faculty
development program shall be considered confidential until the decision on
funding of the program is announced by the Provost.
11) Requests by project grant recipients for
reconsideration of the committee's recommendations regarding changes in line
item funding of approved grants are to be viewed as extraordinary procedures.
Recipients may only make such a request, in writing, and within 10 university
working days following notifications, through the Provost, who will decide its
merits and may make a recommendation to the committee for reconsideration. The
committee, upon considering the Provost's recommendation and after conducting a
second evaluation of the proposal, shall, within 10 university working days,
render a recommendation to the Provost.
No further reconsideration of the grant application will be made by the
Faculty Benefits Committee.
ARTICLE VI
TEMPORARY SUBCOMMITTEES:
For other matters the committee may consider, such as
development of new policies, recommendations, or various other issues, the
chairperson may appoint other subcommittees upon approval of the committee
majority. In the same way ad hoc
committees may be appointed to include, if desired, administrators, students
and faculty not already members of the FBC.
METHOD OF AMENDING THE BYLAWS:
Bylaws
may be amended at any regular committee meeting by a majority vote of the full
committee provided the amendment was submitted in writing at the previous
regular meeting.
Adopted
Academic year
1984-85