[Faculty] IMPORTANT - CoE Bylaws for RTP/Personnel Committe - DUE WED 9/10

[Yusuf Ozturk]

Dear Madhu, 

Thank you for your feedback.  You are right,  we rushed this to amendment to comply with university  policy file   within the deadlines placed on us.  Your feedback is  indeed what we would expect  if we brought this policy  amendment to a regular faculty meeting.  Faculty would  review the changes proposed and make  recommendations commending the work  that has been accomplished  ( even though it may not be perfect). We would reword the  proposed changes and submit to faculty approval.  

Last year Dr. Hayhurst's office was notified about the  conflict  between the college and university policy file. However his entire office was either looking for a job somewhere else or busy with  planning for retirement,  they could not attend this less important matter.   At the beginning of this semester,  this matter was brought to the attention of Dr. Mehrabadi's office with a short deadline.  The proposal is rushed  with the expectation that faculty will indeed read it and make sound recommendations. We plan  improve the policy file during  this semester and  remove all redundancies  and reword certain sections to the expectation of faculty.   We received  a few recommendations  from faculty that will be very useful as our committee  works on the policy file this semester.  

Unless the redundancy is a deal breaker, I would like to ask the faculty to approve this to meet the compliance deadline and promise to rework the relevant sections of the policy file and bring  before college faculty for continuos improvement before and during our end of semester meeting.

Yo have copied to Marcie Bober  who is a professor in educational  technology. I do not now if she is in the management chain therefore I  removed her from the cc field. Please feel free to share with her if you  think she should be in the loop

Best regards
Yusuf


Dr. Yusuf Ozturk
Professor
San Diego State University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
San Diego, CA 92182-1309
Tel: (619) 594-4550
Fax : (619) 594-2654
Email : yozturk at mail.sdsu.edu
Email: yusuf.ozturk at gmail.com

On Sep 10, 2014, at 10:23 PM, mgupta <mgupta at mail.sdsu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Yusuf,
>     The draft document you sent appears to have been prepared in a hurry, and as such is not very well presented.  For example,
> (i) the footnote on p. 1 is not a well-written, grammatically correct sentence.
> (ii) The second sentence of Sec. 5.3(b) appears to duplicate what Section 5.3(e) states.
> etc.
>     I suggest that the document be carefully prepared before seeking faculty approval.
>  -- Madhu Gupta
> 
> At 12:40 PM 9/10/2014, Yusuf Ozturk wrote:
>> Esteemed members of COE Faculty,
>> 
>> I am the parliamentarian  for COE and I chair the college policy council.  Last year, Dean's office  have been notified that certain sections of the COE  policy file and bylaws are contradicting with University policy file.  Unfortunately we failed to address the required changes on time last year due to changes in the office.  Dr. Mehrabadi's office worked with Edith Benkov to address  the problem and modified the sections of the bylaws that pertain to the RTP/Personnel committee.    The suggested changes  to the RTP/Personnel committee to bring it to compliance with the university policy  have been  reviewed   and approved by Edith Benkov,  It has been reviewed by the college executive committee and it has been reviewed and approved by college policy council.
>> 
>> According to college policy file, any amendment to the college policy file should be presented to faculty by the college policy council in a college meeting for discussions and approval.   Unfortunately the current college policy file is out of compliance with the university policy and we have been given a deadline of September 10 (today) to bring it to compliance. We have been working very hard to address this issue and meet the deadline.
>> 
>> I would like to ask your support to review the suggested changes to the college policy file offline and voice your concerns  via email to me.  If you kindly keep your responses addressed to me only we will avoid an explosion of emails.  If you do not have any concerns regarding the changes,  I will appreciate if you can vote via email sending me an "approved" message by the end of the day TODAY.
>> 
>> I know it is  a very short deadline but unfortunately this was an task  that had to be completed last year and faculty affairs gave us a deadline of today to bring the policy file in compliance with the university policy file.  I apologize for rushing this matter to your votes on such a short notice and appreciate your support in getting this change approved.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Dr. Yusuf Ozturk
>> COE Parliamentarian
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> > Attached please find three documents:
>> >
>> > 1. CoE Bylaws dated 9/3/2014 that was approved by Edith Benkov and also reviewed by Executive Committee and brings the CoE Bylaws in compliance with the University policies.
>> >
>> > 2.  The original CoE Bylaws that pertain to RTP/Personnel Committee dated Feb 3, 2009
>> >
>> > 3.  Reappointment, Tenure & Promotion Procedures from Faculty Affairs website
>> >
>> >
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