Faculty Handbook: Sections 0 to 2 Update on Proposed Changes to Sections 0 to 2 of the Faculty Handbook April 10 SPECIAL MEETING 4/10/131

Prologue (former Section 0) Updates – Slight rewording – “1/10 signatures” changed to 10 full-time Faculty members, moved to Section 2.5 (this is to put a proposal ‘in the hopper’) – Appendix I: will track changes to the Handbook and the approval process 4/10/132

Section 1: Stevens Institute of Technology Updates – Minor wording changes of the history – Updated the non-discrimination statement 34/10/13

Section 2: Organization of the Institute Updates: – Minor re-wording changes – 2.4.1: Faculty Positions: removed the discussion of titles (will be covered in Section 3) – 2.4.2: Additional Positions (NEW): describe “Visiting Faculty”, describe that part-time faculty will be described in Section 3 – 2.5. Promulgation of the Faculty Handbook (NEW; with elements in the earlier ‘Section 0’) Process for reviewing, updating, changing, and disseminating Changes: “Majority of the eligible voting Faculty unless otherwise specified” (NOT of votes cast; not voting is a ‘No’ vote) 44/10/13

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Faculty Handbook: Sections 0 to 2 Summary of Proposed Changes to Sections 0 to 2 of the Faculty Handbook, with initial Feedback heard FEBRUARY 13 SPECIAL MEETING 2/13/136

Section 0 Old: Founding and Early History of the Institute – Moved, in abbreviated form, to next section New: Prologue – Faculty are core of any academic institution – FH is a governance (not informational) document – How to change the Faculty handbook (bring to Faculty Senate, or 1/10 of voting Faculty signatures to ‘by-pass’ FS) 2/13/137

Section 0 Feedback since Proposed Version posted online (Feb 2013) – Add a statement of overarching place of handbook such as: “This document sets out the overarching governing principles for the Institute. Although the three schools and the college may have individual concerns, this handbook establishes general governance guidelines for Stevens.” (i.e. relationship of FH with respect to schools) – 2008 Faculty motion tracking changes to the document (how to handle this?) – Clean up some grammar and word usage 2/13/138

Section 1 Old: Mission and Key Objectives (of Institute), 5 pg – 5 pages, with materials that appears to come from a Strategic Plan (Core values, Core goals, benchmark data, top 50 by 2012) New: Stevens Institute of Technology, 1+ pg – History of Institute (abbreviated from current FH) – Transition to today – While Stevens has expanded, rigorous technical preparation remains Stevens Hallmark as reflected in the Stevens mission (taken from New Strategic Plan) Note: Statement on Non-Discrimination from the old FH remains in the proposed new version 2/13/139

Section 1 Feedback since Proposed Version posted online (Feb 2013) – Historical role of Humanities in founding of curriculum (to be added) – Add webpage link for further information, reference book – Clean up some grammar and word usage 2/13/1310

Section 2 Old: Organization of the Institute, 4.5 pg – 2.1: Detailed organizational chart of BOT Committees removed; Removed details of the principal administrative officers (although in BOT section) – 2.2. and 2.3: unchanged – 2.4: Academic Council: removed – 2.5: Administration: President and VP-level org chart removed; Provost and direct report org chart removed New: Organization of the Institute, 1+ pg – Streamlined BOT section (no charts, no names) – 2.2 (President) and 2.3 (Provost) remain same – 2.4. Faculty Organization (new, not in previous FH) Faculty Positions (define Tenure and non-tenure Stream; titles of different Research and Teaching faculty) Schools and College of the Institute The Faculty Senate (short introduction; points to further discussion in Faculty Committee part of FH) 2/13/1311

Section 2 Feedback since Proposed Version posted online (Feb 2013) Add webpage links to BOT and President Cabinet for ease of access Review list of faculty titles Issues related to faculty workload, core metrics, etc will remain in Section 3 (currently there, but we haven’t tackled that section yet) Clean up some grammar and word usage 2/13/1312