Standing Committees

NOTE: The composition of this committee is exclusive to tenured faculty and faculty on tenure track. Membership in this committee is "automatic" for these faculty members and, as such, there is no need to bid for membership in this committee.

The Tenure and Promotion Committee is a standing committee of the UNM-Valencia Campus as well as the Faculty Assembly and is charged with the responsibility of:

1. Implementing the Tenure and Promotion Policies described herein (UNM-Valencia Handbook) and in accordance with the policies described in the UNM Faculty Handbook.
2. Proposing, advocating, and implementing procedures consistent with this Tenure and Promotion Policy and the mission of Valencia Campus;
3. communicating the policy, procedures and rationale of tenure and promotion to the Valencia Campus community, particularly the faculty;
4. Planning, proposing, and helping fill new full-time faculty positions for tenure and promotion; and
5. Reviewing and recommending, to the Dean of Instruction and to the Chancellor, rank or code advancement.

The membership of the Tenure and Promotion Committee shall consist of all faculty in the Tenure and Promotion system.

NOTE: The composition of this committee is exclusive to lecturer faculty. Membership in this committee is "automatic" for these faculty members and, as such, there is no need to bid for membership in this committee.

The Lecturer Committee is a standing committee of the UNM-Valencia Campus as well as the Faculty Assembly and is charged with the responsibility of:

1. Implementing the Lecturer Promotion Policies described herein (UNM-Valencia Handbook) and in accordance with the policies described in the UNM Faculty Handbook.
2. Proposing, advocating, and implementing procedures consistent with this Lecturer Promotion Policy and the mission of Valencia Campus;
3. communicating the policy, procedures and rationale of lecturer promotion to the Valencia Campus community, particularly the faculty;
4. Reviewing and recommending, to the Dean of Instruction and to the Chancellor, advancement.

The membership of the Lecturer Promotion Committee shall consist of all lecturer faculty.

NOTE: Membership in this committee is "automatic" for the Librarian, Registrar, and Dean of Instruction. Everyone else who wishes to serve on this committee (e.g., "seats" the five faculty, one staff, and one student) must submit a bid in order to be considered for membership.

1. Creating and recommending all new curricula;
2. Reviewing and recommending all proposed changes in existing curricula;
3. Overseeing the periodic review of existing programs; and
4. Serving as a branch liaison with the Curriculum and Undergraduate Committees on main campus.

All recommendations and actions by the Curriculum Committee, with appropriate signatures, are forwarded to the campus Chancellor. With the Chancellor's concurrence, the committee then forwards its recommendations to the UNM Faculty Senate for appropriate Senate action.

Reporting at each of the Assembly's meetings and to the FEC, Dean of Instruction and Chancellor on an ongoing basis.

Curriculum Committee membership will consist of:

• • faculty representatives from all academic divisions
  • "at large" faculty representative;
  • The Campus Registrar;
  • The Campus Librarian;
  • professional staff member;
  • The Dean of Instruction (ex officio); and
  • student (ex officio).

The Curriculum Committee’s chair will be elected annually from among and by the committee's voting membership.

Members of the Curriculum Committee include:

The Adjunct Faculty Committee was created to discuss and make recommendation on issues of importance to part-time faculty, in particular, but not exclusively. Membership composition is open.

Members of the Adjunct Faculty Committee include:

The Faculty Professional Development Committee is a standing committee of the UNM-Valencia Campus Faculty Assembly and is charged with the responsibility of organizing, implementing and evaluating appropriate opportunities for professional development.

The membership of the Faculty Professional Development Committee shall consist of three (3) faculty, including one (1) part-time instructor.

Members of the Faculty Professional Development Committee include:

The Faculty Program Development Committee is a standing committee of the UNM-Valencia Campus Faculty Assembly and charged with the creation, review, implementation, and maintenance of faculty professional development and other programs such as the Faculty Forums Program.

The membership of the Faculty Program Development Committee shall consist of four (4) faculty members.

The Faculty Program Development Committee reports to the Faculty Assembly at each of its meetings and to the FEC at the end of each academic year.

Members of the Faculty Program Development Committee include:

The Faculty Committee maintains the Faculty website on a regular basis, updates the Faculty website following each Faculty Assembly meeting, updates and maintains the Faculty Distribution List(s) for all email correspondence, and publishes the Faculty Newsletter. There should be a minimum of two faculty members on this committee; one member should have Web page design and coding skills.

Members of the Faculty Communication Committee include:

The Faculty Conflict Resolution Committee (FCRC) was created at a Faculty Assembly meeting during the 1999 spring semester. Accordingly, the FCRC shall be a standing committee of the UNM-Valencia Faculty Assembly; committee members will be "on call" should a dispute arise and will act in accordance with UNM-Valencia Faculty Grievance Procedures. The FCRC chair will be available to immediately respond to any faculty-involved dispute as soon as the dispute comes to the chair’s attention. The FCRC committee structure and process may be the first step of a coordinated grievance procedure that also involves the established procedures published in the UNM-Valencia Faculty Procedural Handbook (latest issue). It is hoped that such an informal faculty conflict resolution team will be able to do its work quickly and effectively to resolve any faculty dispute before positions harden to a point where the more formal grievance procedures are requested.

I. Structure

• The UNM-Valencia Faculty Conflict Resolution Committee(FCRC) shall be composed entirely of volunteers recruited from full- and part-time faculty ranks and subject to procedures for standing committees of the Assembly
• Committee members shall choose a chair who serves for a one year term
• Upon notification of a faculty-involved dispute--by a department chair/coordinator or other campus administrator, Faculty Assembly President, or faculty involved in the dispute--the FCRC Chair shall initiate a Faculty Conflict Resolution Process as outlined below

II. Process

• The FCRC Chair shall recommend that the disputants immediately attempt a resolution, of the conflict, in a face-to-face meeting
• If the dispute is not resolved at step 1, the FCRC Chair or a designated committee member shall meet with the parties--as a neutral mediator--to informally resolve the dispute.
• If the dispute is not resolved at step 2, the FCRC shall call 2 volunteers from the FCRC roster--whose affiliations are most relevant to the conflict and disputants--to hear a more detailed discussion of the dispute. The disputants shall have two weeks from the day these volunteers are named by the chair, to submit a written, detailed report of the dispute to the FCRC volunteers for their suggested resolution. Those FCRC members designated to resolve the dispute shall have five working days, after receiving the report (s) to submit their resolution to the disputants.
• If the dispute is not resolved at step 3, The FCRC Chair shall convene a hearing to be held before the entire Committee assembled for this purpose. The hearing shall proceed following the principles of a judicial proceeding, with each party presenting its case together with necessary evidence and/or witnesses, including the opportunity to rebut any evidence and consider the testimony of any witness. The FCRC assembled for this dispute will then submit its recommendation in writing to each of the concerned parties, in no more than one week after the hearing, and to the relevant department chair/coordinator, and the Dean of Instruction for the resolution of the dispute within two weeks.

It should be emphasized that faculty members involved in any dispute always have the opportunity to take whatever steps they feel are appropriate to deal with the conflict. However, it is the sincere hope of the FCRC that the structure and process for faculty mediation, outlined above, will be able to resolve every dispute that comes to its attention. If either or both parties to a faculty dispute decide that the informal FCRC process has failed, the more formal Faculty (Academic Freedom) Grievance Procedure may be initiated.

Members of the Faculty Conflict Resolution Committee include:

The Faculty Handbook Committee creates and updates the UNM-Valencia Faculty Handbook according to the policies in Section F of the UNM Faculty Handbook.

Members of the Faculty Handbook Committee include:

The Faculty Online Teaching & Review Committee was accepted as a standing committee of the UNM-Valencia Faculty Assembly in October, 2015. Revisions submitted to UNM-Valencia Handbook Committee in February, 2019. Revisions approved by UNM- Valencia Faculty Assembly April, 2019.

Members of the Faculty Online Teaching & Review (FOTRC) Committee include:

The Faculty Senate Representatives represent UNM-Valencia Campus as voting members of the Faculty Senate according to Article 1, Section 6(b) and Section 6(c) of the UNM Faculty Constitution.

"UNM Faculty Constitution, Article I, Section 6(b) states:

Faculty Senate Representatives include: