Bylaws

Faculty Professional Policies Council Bylaws

ARTICLE 1 NAME AND REPORTING CHAIN

A. The name of this group is the Faculty Professional Policies Council (FPPC).
B. The Faculty Professional Policies Council is a council of the Faculty Senate, to which it reports.

ARTICLE 2 PURPOSE

The purpose of the FPPC (hereafter, ‘the Council’) is to recommend university policy and procedures to the ISU Faculty Senate in the areas of employment and retention, salary and other compensations, evaluation and its processes, and appeals and grievances. This includes policies related to academic freedom and due process; appointment, reappointment, non-reappointment, termination; tenure and promotion; sabbatical leave; emeritus/emerita status; consulting, faculty professional recognition and development; and legislative policies such as those of the State Board of Education (SBOE) or other proposals affecting faculty welfare.

ARTICLE 3 MEMBERSHIP, SELECTION, AND RECALL

A. The voting membership of the Council consists of the following:

1. Two College of Arts and Letters faculty representatives
2. Two Division of Health Sciences faculty representatives consisting of one tenure-track faculty and one clinical faculty
3. Two College of Science and Engineering faculty representatives
4. One College of Education faculty representative
5. One College of Business faculty representative
6. One College of Technology faculty representative
7. One Library faculty representative

B. Ex-Officio non-voting membership of the Council consists of the following:

Faculty Senate representative
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, or designee
Academic Deans’ representative
Staff Council representative
University Policy Manager
Administrative Support
Lecturer At-Large representative

C. The election and appointment process will be as follows:

To select appointees, the Faculty Senate shall solicit nominations, oversee elections, and approve the membership on the Council. The Faculty Senate appoints a member of its body to the Council annually and appoints other designated faculty representatives from the general faculty to the Council for terms of three years
No faculty representative may be reappointed to the Council for a third consecutive term, thus requiring at least a one-year interval after the second term of office for reappointment.
Ex-officio Council members are appointed; terms of office are established by those constituencies.

D. The filling of vacancies will be as follows:

If a vacancy occurs among the faculty representatives, the Faculty Senate appoints a new member in accordance with the membership provisions in the Faculty Senate bylaws. If a temporary vacancy occurs (sabbatical, illness, etc.), the head officer of the unit involved recommends a temporary replacement, to be approved by the Senate.

E. Attendance requirements and recall of the Council will be as follows:

Any Council member who misses three meetings in an academic year will be identified and may be replaced by the appointing constituency.
The Faculty Senate may recall any faculty representative (including its own member) by two-thirds approval of those voting. The Faculty Senate must allow the members in question an opportunity to appear before the Senate.

ARTICLE 4 OFFICERS AND MEETINGS

A. The Council elects the Chair and Vice Chair of the Council at the last meeting of the Spring semester from the continuing membership of the Council. The Chair serves for one year and may be reelected if eligible. The Chair and Vice Chair shall be voting members.

B. If the office of the Chair or Vice Chair becomes vacant, the Council elects a new Chair or Vice Chair for the remainder of that year.

C. The regular meetings of the Council begin no later than two weeks following the first day of classes in the Fall and are held every other Wednesday through the academic year as set by Faculty Senate. The Chair is responsible for informing Council members in advance of the meeting of its time, place, and agenda.

D. If three members of the Council request a meeting, the Chair will call one within two weeks of the request.

E. Should the removal of the Council Chair become necessary, it will be done in accordance with the provisions governing amendments to the Bylaws as outlined in the Faculty Senate bylaws. A two-thirds approval of the voting Council membership is required for removal.

ARTICLE 5 MINUTES, QUORUM, AND VOTING

A. Minutes are kept for each meeting, prepared in accordance with the format set by Faculty Senate and submitted to the Faculty Senate for acceptance. Policy recommendations and all actions of the Council are submitted to the Faculty Senate separately from the minutes for approval.

B. Within two weeks of the meeting, statements of policy recommendations may be approved electronically or by special meeting of the Council and submitted to the Faculty Senate for review. The Faculty Senate acts on policy recommendations in accordance with Faculty Senate Bylaws.

C. A quorum consists of fifty percent plus one of the Council membership.

D. A motion is passed when it receives a majority of the votes.

Abstentions do not count as votes.
Tie votes fail.
The Chair has the right to vote on all motions.
Voting by proxy is allowed when notification of proxy assignment is made to the Chair or Secretary prior to the scheduled meeting. A proxy must be given to a faculty member within the member’s area of representation who is not already serving on the Council.

ARTICLE 6 STANDING COMMITTEES

A. Standing committees may be established or discontinued with the consent of the Faculty Senate.

B. The Council determines the membership and establishes the purposes of its standing committees.

The Council appoints or re-appoints the members of its standing committees annually with the approval of the Faculty Senate.
A member of the Council or Faculty Senate may serve as a committee member as needed.
The Council appoints the Chair of the standing committee after the members of the committee are approved by the Faculty Senate.
The Council accepts minutes from standing committee meetings.
The standing committees forward recommendations for action to the Council, which will be discussed at the next Council meeting.

C. The standing committees

May prepare operating procedures, approved by the Council, which specify how meetings are called, votes taken, and policy recommendations reported. Changes in the operating procedures are approved by the Council by a majority vote.
May form special task forces that report directly to the standing committee. These task forces are not standing committees.
Shall keep minutes of meetings to be submitted to the Council for acceptance.

ARTICLE 7 AMENDING THE BYLAWS

A. These Bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds majority vote of the Council membership.

B. No amendment may be both introduced and passed at the same meeting.

C. The Faculty Senate may override Council Bylaw changes in accordance with the Faculty Senate Bylaws.

ARTICLE 8 BUSINESS ITEMS

A. Items or policy not completed in one academic year should be considered old or continuing business to be completed by the the Council in the next academic year.

B. New business may be initiated in the Council by any of the following means: business referred to the the Council by Faculty Senate, items brought in by a member of the Council, or items referred by the University community.

Approved by Faculty Professional Policies Council: Via email vote – February 5, 2007
Approved by Faculty Senate: February 12, 2007
Revised and approved by Faculty Professional Policies Council: April 22, 2009
Approved by Faculty Senate: May 4, 2009
Revisions to College Membership Approved by Faculty Professional Policies Council: Sept. 22, 2010 Approved by Faculty Senate: September 27, 2010
Approved by Faculty Professional Policies Council: April 17, 2019
Approved by Faculty Senate: April 29, 2019