Appeals & Grievances WG:Progress Report

Appeals & Grievances WG:Progress Report

Susan McIntosh (ex officio)

Don Morrison

Randy Stevenson

Moshe Vardi (chair)

By-Laws:

1. Appeals: “any matter where the concern is whether proper university procedures have been followed, including decisions on promotion and tenure”

2. Grievances: “regarding any matter of concern except decisions on promotion and tenure”

3. Panels: “A majority of the members of a Panel must be members of the Senate”

4. Confidentiality: “administrator may need to discuss with other administrators”

Policy clarifications:

1. Terminology: Appeals: decisions of P&T Committee Grievances: everything else

2. Procedural issues: University procedure not followed University procedure implemented in a

biased or unreasonable manner3. Cooperation: all university units are

obliged to provide convenor with requested information Report will spell out instances of non-

compliance4. Confidentiality: all parties involved,

including administrators, are obliged to maintain confidentiality.

Panels: Allow non-senator members At least one senator, but no majority of

senators needed.

Role of convenor: Staff and convene panels Need not chair panels Use panel’s report to prepare separate

reports to President and appellant

Staffing Panels

Other parties: Allow interested and informed parties to communicate directly to panels to enable appeals to be launched based on confidential information not available to appellants. Appellant may not have access to confidential

information.

Mid-process intervention: Allow interested and informed parties to raise procedural issues with convenor during P&T process; convenor will convey to provost. Try to resolve situations as early as possible.

Communicating with panels