Committee on Faculty (COF)

The committee shall represent the faculty by (a) recommending policy and procedures for personnel decisions to the faculty; (b) communicating procedures for personnel decisions to faculty members; (c) ensuring that candidates interviewing for initial appointment are informed of the procedures and criteria by which they will be evaluated; (d) considering evidence and testimony and consulting with and making recommendations to the President of the University ... (e) considering the legal propriety and risks of all faculty personnel procedures, including those at the school and department level; and informing all faculty participants in personnel procedures of possible legal concerns.--Taken from Handbook
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The following documents are proposals that COF will be considering in the Fall semester of 2008. The first two are recommendations from COA. The third is a draft of the Conflict of Interest policy that COF, with guidance from University legal counsel, has been working on for several years. Comments and suggestions should be sent to the COF Coordinator.

*Guidelines for the Construction of Personnel Files

*Linking the Criteria for Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor

*Conflict of Interest Policy Draft
Peer Observation Policies & Procedures

DEPAUW UNIVERSITY OPEN FILE POLICY

DePauw University has an open file policy which states "Each individual or committee placing a document in the decision file must be identified in order for that document to be considered." (Academic Handbook, Personnel Policies, Section III.F.1.)

This means that anything to be included in a faculty member’s decision file is available to that faculty member as well as to the members of the committees reviewing the file. Therefore, an acknowledgment of this policy must be either included in or attached to any document submitted for consideration as part of a faculty member's decision file.

Open File Policy Acknowledgment Form

Committee Members 2008-09
Faculty Members:Three-year terms. No more than four may be from one division and no more than two from one department. Must be tenured with at least four years of service at DePauw.
Divisional Representatives At-Large Representatives Note: Committee meets with Neal Abraham (VPAA)
1-Tim Good (one-year replacement:Sheryl Tremblay) 09 Jeff Kenney 10  
2-David Guinee 11 Bridget Gourley (chair) 10  
3-Rick Smock 11 Istvan Csicsery-Ronay 09  
4-Erik Wielenberg 09 Mike Sinowitz 11  
  Glen Kuecker 10