Leadership Structure
- Chair: elected from the committee membership
- Convener: The Provost or their designee shall convene the FPC's first meeting of the Fall quarter.
- Staff: provided by Office of the Provost
Election Schedule for Chair: The committee [council] shall elect a chair(s) from among its voting members at the first possible meeting of fall term. In situations where the chair from the prior year is still a member of the committee. that person remains the chair until a new chair is elected.
Membership Requirements
General Membership
- 6 faculty from CAS, no more than one per department
- 1 faculty from College of Business
- 1 faculty from College of Education
- 1 faculty from College of Design
- 1 faculty from Law School
- 1 faculty from School of Journalism & Communication
- 1 faculty from School of Music and Dance
Only regular tenured Officers of Instruction with academic appointments of 0.5 FTE or greater are eligible to serve. The word "regular" excludes career, pro-tem, visiting, professor of practice, and courtesy appointments. The University President, Vice Presidents, Provost, Vice Provosts, Associate and Assistant Provosts, Deans, Associate Deans and CAS department heads are ineligible to serve. No individual may serve during a year when their promotion case will come before the FPC; current members must resign from the FPC in such circumstances.
Quorum: No vote on a tenure or promotion case shall be taken in the FPC except in the presence of two-thirds of eligible members. Eligible members are those who have not recused themselves from a particular case.
Ex-Officio, voting members
Ex-Officio, non-voting members
Terms and Workload
Length of Term
- Members: 2 years, staggered
Term Limits
- For the Chair: 1 term
- For Committee Members:
Workload Designation
- For the Chair: above 90 hours/year (Tier 1+). The chair or their designee is an ex officio, voting member of the Academic Council (0 - 20 hours/year).
- For Committee Members: above 90 hours/year (Tier 1+)
Frequency of Meetings:
At least once per week, beginning late in the fall quarter.
Reporting Deadline(s):
The committee shall provide the senate with an oral or written report regarding substantive work it undertakes in a timely fashion. This does not preclude the senate from requesting an oral or written report from the committee as it deems necessary or appropriate.