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Reports, Recommendations,
& Resolutions
Reports
FSC Memorandum on Faculty Compensation to the Senate Financial Affairs Committee (March 4, 2009)
FSC Report on Non-Tenure Track Full Time Faculty at New York University (October 2008)
Recommendations
Recommendation to the Administration
on Matters Pertaining to Retiree Tuition Benefits (October 27, 2009)
Recommendations to the Administration
on Matters Pertaining to Faculty Compensation and to Faculty Benefits
for the Academic Year 2007-2008 (Presented to the Senate Financial Affairs
Committee)
Recommendations to the Administration
On Matters Pertaining to Faculty Compensation and to Faculty Benefits
for the Academic Year 2006-2007 (Presented to the Senate Financial Affairs
Committee, February 2006)
Resolutions
FSC Resolution: In support of our School of Medicine Colleagues (September 17, 2009)
Resolution of the Faculty
Senators Council
Approved May 21, 2009
While salary and rent may fall under different Administrative rubrics, they are inextricably and intimately linked in the faculty tenants’ family budgets. In the context of two faculty salary freezes in half-a-dozen years, the University’s announced policy of double-digit rent increases for faculty in University housing has provoked widespread comment and concern among the Faculty Senators Council’s (FSC) faculty constituents. The burden of the new rent increases falls most heavily upon new faculty with relatively lower salaries. This is of particular concern in the current economic crisis. The FSC appreciates the introduction of the “hardship policy,” but we remain worried that those of modest incomes will experience difficulties. The Council believes that, if the University is interested in recruiting and retaining high quality faculty, it needs to demonstrate a commitment to its faculty through real and effective action. The Council recommends that the University rethink the hardship policy and propose a more generous plan. Finally, the Council recommends that while the salary freeze remains in effect, that the rent increase program be suspended. With expenses increasing and salaries frozen, many faculty find their economic situation deteriorating. This reality fuels frustration and resentment of which the Administration needs to be aware, even as we understand that we live in a difficult economic moment.
Resolution of the Faculty
Senators Council
Approved May 1, 2008
In concert with our faculty colleagues at the NYU School of Medicine [SoM] and those who serve on the SoM Faculty Council, the members of the NYU Faculty Senators Council reaffirm the central importance of academic excellence in all responsibilities associated with the faculty of every unit and School at New York University and the critical importance of the institution of tenure to its achievement. As our University Faculty Handbook asserts under Title I, Item III.: The Case for Academic Tenure: “Academic tenure is a means to certain ends, specifically: (1) freedom of teaching and research; and (2) a sufficient degree of economic security to make the profession of teaching attractive to men and women of ability (p. 21).” Accordingly, the FSC believes it is clear that tenure without economic security is meaningless.
In addition, the Faculty Senators Council reasserts that, as Schools and faculties address the issues and problems with which they may be confronted, established due process and negotiation are the means for resolving whatever disagreements may arise. The Council believes strongly that unilateral imposition of modifications of existing practices and obligations involving tenure or retroactively altering agreements regarding tenure and institutional salary undermine the mutual trust that has been the bedrock of this University’s remarkable growth and success, and that will be essential as the faculty and the administration together face the challenges of achieving greater excellence.
Resolution of the Faculty
Senators Council
Approved February 16, 2006
While recognizing that the final authority for development, termination
and reorganization of academic programs lies with the President, the Faculty
Senators Council thinks that faculty input is crucial to all curriculum
and academic aspects of the University, consistent with its roles outlined
in the University Bylaws.
The resolution, “Procedures
for Termination or Reorganization of Academic Programs,” passed
by the Senate in 1979 and approved by the Board of Trustees on December
1, 1979 supports consideration of academic program termination and reorganization
by appropriate elected standing committees. The 1997
Resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees on December 1, 1997 reaffirms
the 1979 Resolution, but eliminates some conditions that are very important.
The Faculty Senators Council believes that faculty input should not be
restricted to cases for which there is “immediate reduction in the
number of existing tenured faculty holding positions in such program (or
programs)…”
In order to reestablish the essential consultative role of faculty in
academic matters, we recommend that the 1997 Board of Trustees Resolution
be rescinded and that we return to the spirit and intent of the 1979 Resolution,
as originally outlined.
We further recommend that when program development, termination or reorganization
involves more than one School, the consultative process outlined be broadened
to include the Faculty Senators Council and the appropriate Standing Committees
of the University Senate, consistent with University Bylaws 34, 41 and
56.
See Bylaws 34,
41 and 56. Excerpts from Bylaws are provided for informational purposes.
See excerpts from the NYU Faculty
Handbook regarding resolutions of the NYU Board of Trustees concerning
procedures for the termination or reorganization of academic programs
dated December 10, 1979 and December 1, 1997. Excerpts from NYU Faculty
Handbook are provided for informational purposes.
Resolution of the Faculty Senators Council
Approved February 16, 2006
The Faculty Senators Council affirms that any proposed changes to a School’s
procedures for promotion and tenure must be submitted to the Provost,
who in consultation with the Faculty Senators Council, will review and
approve them.
Resolution
of the Faculty Senators Council
Approved February 16, 2006
The Faculty Senators Council approves the following changes to the tenure
process at NYU’s School of Medicine: 1) removal of the ten-year
probationary status from the full-time non-tenure track; 2) use of the
temporary title, Member of the Faculty, for a limited one-year
duration, for newly-appointed faculty, pending final approval of title
and tenure status; and, 3) mandated notifications, from the Office of
the Dean to faculty members and their Department Chairs, on deadlines
for submission of tenure dockets for consideration.
Resolution
of the Faculty Senators Council
Approved February 16, 2006
The Faculty Senators Council approves the proposed promotion and tenure
procedures, submitted by the Division of the Libraries, the Stern School
of Business, the Wagner School of Public Service, the Steinhardt School
of Education, the Tisch School of the Arts, and the Gallatin School of
Individualized Study, and affirms that such procedures are in compliance
with the June 2004 Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure and the NYU
Faculty Handbook.
Resolution of the Faculty Senators Council
Approved November 22, 2005
It is the sense of
the NYU Faculty Senators Council that:
While we, the faculty, may be divided on the issue of union representation
for GAs/TAs, we are all seriously concerned with the education of our
undergraduates and our graduate students.
Since the current graduate/teaching assistants’ job action may not
end before the start of the Spring term 2006, the various Schools of our
University will soon have to arrange their undergraduate classes in a
way that avoids disruption of these classes.
The Faculty Senators Council affirms the faculty’s appreciation
of GAs/TAs as valuable, contributing members of the NYU enterprise and
the faculty’s commitment to supporting an appropriate and effective
mechanism that assures that the needs, rights, and responsibilities of
graduate and teaching assistants are addressed.
We encourage the University to continue to pursue current efforts to improve
the environment for graduate and teaching assistants. However, for those
GAs/TAs who opt not to fulfill their commitments to return to teach in
the Spring, there may be consequences. The Faculty Senators Council recommends
that the University specify well before the end of Fall semester 2005
what those consequences will be.
The Faculty Senators Council strongly urges the University to maintain
tuition and health benefits for all GAs and TAs and to support their education
without interruption.
Resolution of the Faculty Senators Council
Approved November 17, 2005
While the University may have the legal right to give administrators access
to Blackboard, the NYU Faculty Senators Council believes that it is not
proper, in a collegial environment, to do so.
The Faculty Senators Council also believes that occurrences, such as the
recent handling of access to Blackboard sites, might have been averted
if the Administration had consulted with the Faculty Senators Council.
Other recommendations of the FSC can be found as part of the summaries
of FSC meetings. Visit the "Meeting Summaries"
page.
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