Proposed changes to C07
Comment period runs August 12, 2020 through September 14, 2020. Please send comments to
for the Office of the University Secretary to collect and submit to the appropriate committees.- Highlights the need to consider the principles of academic freedom and tenure when reviewing allegations of faculty misconduct.
- Requires an investigation of alleged misconduct before a disciplinary decision is made.
- Stresses the need for confidentiality to protect the privacy of individuals involved.
- Defines misconduct.
- Adds a level of discipline, “Disciplinary Probation,” as an intermediary step between censure and suspension without pay, based on an AAUP faculty discipline document.
- Differentiates between processes for less serious sanctions (warning, censure, and disciplinary probation) which will not be delayed pending appeal; from more serious sanctions (suspension without pay and dismissal), which allows for a peer hearing and appeals to take place prior to proceeding with the sanction.
- Creates the Faculty Misconduct Review Committee (FMRC) to conduct peer hearings for discipline actions not requiring AF&T peer hearings.
- Clarifies faculty appeal rights.