University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Appendix
APPENDIX 1 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Committee Established to Recommend Procedures Lloyd Ambrosius, Professor of History |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APPENDIX 2 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating Procedures of the Academic Planning Committee adopted by the Academic Planning Committee May 12, 1999; revised January 23, 2002 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article 1 Creation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 1 UNL Bylaws "1.10.1 Academic Planning Committee. To facilitate performance of the duties of the Chancellor specified in Sections 2.8 and 2.9 of the Regents Bylaws and Section 1.2 of these UNL Bylaws, and to enable the faculty governing body to act upon matters specified in Section 2.12.1 of the Regents Bylaws, an Academic Planning Committee is hereby created." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article 2 Membership and Terms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 1 UNL Bylaws "1.10.1 Membership. The Academic Planning Committee shall consist of sixteen members as follows: (a) six faculty members elected as provided by the Academic Senate to staggered three-year terms. These members shall represent biological sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and humanities with no more than two from a single college; (b) one faculty member at large selected by the UNL Graduate Council to serve a three-year term; (c) two academic deans selected by the Chancellor to serve three-year terms; (d) the President of the Academic Senate (or designee); (e) one undergraduate student and one graduate/professional student as selected by the President of ASUN; (f) the Director of Institutional Research and Planning for UNL who shall serve as secretary; (g) the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; (h) the Vice Chancellor of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and (i) the Vice Chancellor for Research as an ex officio non-voting member. The Committee shall select its chair from among its faculty members." Section 2 Vacancies. A vacancy shall exist if any member 1) is absent from three successive called meetings without notifying an officer, 2) has extended illness of more than four months, 3) submits a letter of resignation to the Chair, or 4) is unable to attend a special meeting of the APC called during the Summer. This latter vacancy is considered temporary. Faculty positions will be filled in consultation with the Academic Senate, or the Graduate Council in the case of their representative; the Chancellor will fill any other vacancies that may occur. Section 3 Terms of Office and Annual Meeting. The terms of the members will be taken from 1 August to 31 July. The Annual Meeting will be the last regular meeting prior to 31 July which will be attended by all members including persons elected to terms starting 1 August. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article 3 Officers, Terms, and Duties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 1 Officers. The officers of the Committee shall consist of a Chair and a Vice Chair, both of whom shall be selected from the Faculty Members as directed by the UNL Bylaws (see Article 2 Section 1), and the Secretary, who is the Director of Institutional Research and Planning for UNL.
Section 3 Subcommittees. The Chair of the Committee may appoint subcommittees on his or her own authority or by motion of the Committee carried by simple majority. The charge of such a subcommittee may be to investigate a specific topic of concern or to formulate a recommendation for action by the entire Committee. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article 4 Responsibilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 1 UNL Bylaws "1.10.1.2 Responsibilities. The Academic Planning Committee is charged with the following responsibilities:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 2 UNL Bylaws "1.10.2 Collegiate Academic Planning. The Academic Planning Committee shall encourage academic planning within the colleges and other units of UNL on a continuing basis through joint faculty-administrative-student action. The Academic Planning Committee shall be represented on all Academic Program Review teams and shall comment on the review process and visiting team report to the appropriate vice chancellor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 3 UNL Bylaws "1.10.3 Financial Exigency. "Financial exigency is a bona fide situation of such serious and widespread proportions, caused by financial circumstances beyond the control of UNL, that normal operations cannot be maintained and UNL programs must therefore be significantly altered. "Financial exigency for UNL shall be declared by the Board of Regents based upon a recommendation by the Chancellor in consultation with the President. The Chancellor's recommendation shall be made only after all relevant information bearing upon the problem has been made available to the Academic Planning Committee following the procedures described in the Procedures to be Invoked for Significant Budget Reallocations and Reductions (Adopted by the Academic Senate on December 8, 1992 and ASUN on February 10, 1993), and operating as the Financial Exigency Committee described in Regents Policy 4.2.11. "The Academic Planning Committee shall assist the Chancellor in seeking remedies for a financial exigency. Such remedies may include elimination of faculty, staff, and administrative positions. Recommendations by the Academic Planning Committee for such elimination shall be governed by the Procedures to be Invoked for Significant Budget Reallocations and Reductions. Persons affected by a declaration of financial exigency under Section 4.16 of the Regents Bylaws shall have the right to appeal to the appropriate grievance committee or to the Academic Rights and Responsibilities Committee pursuant to Section 4.14 of the Regents Bylaws." |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article 5 Academic Program Reviews | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 1 Responsibilities. Academic Program Review (APR) at UNL is the responsibility of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The Academic Planning Committee has the responsibility of monitoring the process of each APR as indicated by the Academic Program Review Guidelines (Fall 1996). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 2 Representatives to APR Committees. It will be a duty of the APC Chair to assign a representative from the faculty and academic dean members to monitor each APR at the request of the APR Coordinator. The APC Representative will be charged to report to the entire APC on the review, in particular on procedural problems encountered in the review. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article 6 Conduct of Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 1 Quorum. A quorum shall consist of eight members, five of whom shall be from among the eight faculty members. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 2 Robert's Rules of Order shall govern unless indicated herein. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 3 Order of Business. The order of business shall be the approval of minutes of the last meeting, items of agenda, unfinished business, new business which includes any items of concern that members of the Committee may bring to the Committee, and adjournment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 4 Challenge. Any member may call for a vote of the members present to discontinue discussion on any item of new business. A simple majority aye vote of those present will pass. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 5 Consent Agenda. Consent agenda items distributed by email may include draft minutes for review, comment and approval, and second submissions of program proposals.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 6 Special Meetings. The Chair of the Committee may call special meetings to expedite current business, to consider urgent issues, or upon request from the Chancellor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 7 Procedures during the Summer. The Academic Planning Committee does not meet during the summer. Regularly scheduled meetings are generally suspended during early May and resumed after faculty are scheduled to return in August. There are occasions when it is not in the University's best interest to delay consideration of a Project Initiation Request (PIR) or Program Proposal over the summer. The following procedures provide the Academic Planning Committee an opportunity to respond to critical requests and proposals during the summer months when the Academic Planning Committee does not meet on a regularly scheduled basis.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article 7 Changes to the Operating Procedure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 1 Presenting Changes. Any member of the Committee may present, in writing, changes in the Operating Procedures to the Chair, such changes to be placed on the agenda for the following scheduled meeting of the Committee. The changes will be read and discussed at that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Section 2 Accepting Changes. The changes with any amendments will be sent out with the call to the following scheduled meeting, at which meeting action will be taken. |