East Carolina University Faculty Manual

APPENDIX A.

FACULTY CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

BY-LAWS OF THE FACULTY CONSTITUTION OF EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

III. Special Committees

A. Special committees shall be established by the Senate at the discretion of the Chair of the Faculty, in consultation with the Faculty Officers.

B. Members of the special committees may be appointed by the Chair of the Faculty or he or she may ask the Senate to elect committee members. At least one senator shall be on each special committee.

C. The Chair of the Faculty may appoint the chair of special committees or these chairs may be elected by the committee members.

D. Non-Senate faculty members as well as Senators may serve on special committees.

E. Appellate Committee members, excluding the Faculty Grievance Committee, must be permanently tenured, voting faculty holding no administrative title (Appendix D, Tenure and Promotion Policies and Procedures of ECU).

F. The process for election of Appellate Committees (Appendix D, Tenure and Promotion Policies and Procedures of ECU) will be as follows:

1. The Appellate Committee preference form will be distributed to all faculty, by the Committee on Committees with assistance of the office personnel in January. The completed preference form is due in the Faculty Senate office in February.

2. The Committee on Committees will review all preference forms and present to the Faculty Senate a slate of one or more nominees as there are vacancies to fill. Nominations may also be made from the Faculty Senate floor. Appellate Committee members will be elected at the Faculty Senate Organizational meeting in April. Election will be by majority present and voting.

3. This by-law may be suspended in accordance with procedures specified in Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised.

4. Members of the Faculty Governance Committee can not be elected concurrently to an appellate committee.