Ilana Gershon and Jon Simons, associate professors in the Department of Communication and Culture, and Cassidy Sugimoto, professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, presented the proposed policy.
With the proposal, University, campus or school administrators, faculty through their governance bodies and students through their governance bodies may initiate a CREM.
These interested parties must provide a prima-facie case explaining why the CREM is desirable and feasible.
If all interested parties accept the prima-facie case, the affected faculty, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students, elected by the deans of the individual schools and by their representative bodies, will form an internal review committee, which will then make recommendations on the CREM.
Individuals not employed by IU, elected by the deans of the individual schools and by the internal review committee, will form an external review committee, which will also make recommendations on the CREM.
Eligible voting faculty affected by the CREM will then vote to proceed or not.
If the affected faculty vote to proceed with the CREM, ex officio members of the offices of the deans of the individual schools and affected faculty, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students elected by the internal review committee will form a planning committee, which will make the final proposal for ?the CREM.
Eligible voting faculty affected by the CREM will then vote on the final ?proposal.
If less than two-thirds of the votes cast by voting eligible faculty support the final recommendations, the planning committee may submit a revised final ?proposal.
If more than two-thirds of the votes cast by eligible voting faculty support the final recommendations, the final proposal will go to additional bodies for final approval, according to current university processes.
Tom Gieryn, IU vice provost for faculty and academic affairs, introduced an amendment defining which faculty would be considered “affected faculty,” particularly which faculty would be considered “materially affected faculty.”
“Materially affected faculty” refers to all faculty members whose position in a department or school will be changed by the CREM and to all faculty members in a department or school where the position of 25 percent or more of the faculty members will be affected by the CREM, according to the amendment.
BFC members approved the amendment.
Leslie Rutkowski, assistant professor in the School of Education, introduced a motion to vote by paper ballot rather than by hand vote.
“As a junior faculty, I felt a lot of pressure given the controversial nature of this proposal, and it would give me security to vote my conscience on the vote,” she said.
Members approved the motion, and the policy passed 30 to 18 with two ?abstentions.
Members also approved proposed policies regarding the role of shared governance at IU-Bloomington.
Sugimoto and BFC President Emeritus Herb Terry proposed the policy.
Proposals include ?creating a BFC compensation committee to provide stipends for BFC officers, including the president, president emeritus, president-elect, secretary and parliamentarian, BFC standing committee chairs and the BFC executive committee.
The policy also recommends adding a policy officer to assist with drafting new polices, tracking existing policies and articulating new policies with existing ones and adding a communications officer to assist with disseminating BFC information.
Proposals also include encouraging the BFC executive committee or the BFC long-range planning committee to create a strategic plan or a legislative agenda for the next academic year.
Many of the proposals require BFC approval.
“As the incoming president, I appreciate a charge, and that’s what this is,” Sugimoto said. “This is a charge to the BFC for next year, and I think that’s ?exciting.”
