SENATE AD-HOC COMMITTEE ON NON-TENURE RELATED FACULTY - RECOMMENDATIONS

Presented to the University Senate, May 9, 2001

This Committee recommends that the ad hoc and de facto two-tier system of instructional faculty at the UO be scrutinized and improved in light of data to be gathered by the process outlined below. Our goal as an institution of higher education should be to provide maximum fairness, transparency, and consistency in policies regarding compensation, institutional support, academic freedom, recognition, and job security which touch all instructional faculty.

A. Continued study

1. The Senate ad hoc committee should continue to function in 2001-2002. The task of the committee requires further information gathering and consultation.

2. A standing university Committee on the Status of Non-Tenure-Track Instructional Faculty (NTTIF) should be considered, analogous to the Committee on the Status of Women. This committee should include NTTIF, tenure track faculty, and higher administration, since the situation of NTTIF requires systemic, systematic, and serious examination.

B. Survey of schools and departments with an eye to clarifying NTTIF duties, evaluation procedures, etc.

1. The committee should circulate a survey of department heads, soliciting information on the NTT instructional corps and the terms of their employment within each department.

2. The committee should request all colleges to collect and collate all departmental policies, where existing, on NTTIF, and to relay them to the committee.

C. Survey of UO NTTIF

A professional survey should be commissioned to determine the NTTIF's working conditions, to see where the UO is succeeding and where it is failing to help them perform their duties.
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