May 1998
1. A Meeting of the Faculty of the School of Medicine shall
be held at least once each academic year. The call to each
meeting and the agenda shall be made available by the Dean
to all members of the School's Faculty no less than one week
in advance of the meeting.
The primary business of the Meeting shall be a report by
the Dean to the Faculty on the status and condition of the
School of Medicine, and the Dean's strategic vision and plans
for the School in the coming year.
2. Special Meetings may be called by the Dean and shall
be called by him/her on the written request of ten percent
of the members of the School's Faculty. Notice of special
meetings shall be distributed to all members of the School's
Faculty, if possible no less than one week, but in no case
less than forty eight hours, in advance of the meeting. The
call to the meeting shall state its purpose.
3. Quorum: The presence of fifteen percent of the voting
members of the Faculty of the School of Medicine shall constitute
a quorum at any meeting of the Faculty.
4. Voting: Chairs of Departments may nominate, and the
Advisory Committee of the School of Medicine and the Dean
may approve
as eligible to vote, members of the Faculty of the School
of Medicine other than those designated in the Constitution
as having the right to vote.
1. Plan of Organization: Committees of the Faculty of the
School of Medicine shall assist and advise the Dean in the
areas of education, research, health care, and administration.
Every effort shall be made to minimize the interference of
committee assignments with the primary responsibilities of
Faculty members, by:
a. keeping the total number of Committees to a minimum;
b.
limiting membership on Committees to the smallest practicable
number
2. Standing Committees of the Faculty: Standing Committees
are the Advisory Committee of the School of Medicine and
others, the names and composition of which shall be made
available to the Faculty as appropriate. Standing Committees
shall meet on the call of the Chair of the Committee, either
at the Chair's initiative or at the request of two or more
members.
3. Ad Hoc Committees of the Faculty: If a question requiring
Committee action is clearly outside the area of jurisdiction
of a Standing Committee, an Ad Hoc Committee may be appointed
to study and advise concerning the question. Ad Hoc Committees
shall be discharged as soon as their final reports have been
received by the Advisory Committee of the School of Medicine
or the Dean.
4. Membership: All members of the Faculty of the School
of Medicine are eligible for appointment to Committees. Any
faculty member may decline appointment to any Committee.
With the exception of the Advisory Committee (cf. Article
III), all members and Chairs of these Committees shall be
appointed by the Dean. The term of appointment to any Standing
Committee generally shall be for no longer than three years.
A list of Standing Committee appointments, previously cleared
with appointees, shall be made available to the Faculty.
5. Reports of Standing and Ad Hoc Committees shall be presented
to the Advisory Committee of the School of Medicine in
the form deemed appropriate by the Dean and the Committee.
A
Committee, if dissatisfied with Advisory Committee action
on a report, may present the report directly to the Faculty
of the School of Medicine.
1. Composition:
a. Permanent Members: The Dean of the School of Medicine,
the Chair of each Department of the School of Medicine, and
the Executive Director of the University of North Carolina
Hospitals, shall serve permanently and each shall have one
vote.
b. Ex officio Members: The Dean may designate such ex officio
members as he/she wishes to participate in meetings of the
Advisory Committee of the School of Medicine and each shall
have one vote.
2. Responsibilities: The responsibilities of the Advisory
Committee of the School of Medicine include the following:
a. Propose academic policies with and advise the Dean on
the handling of administrative matters.
b. Receive reports from other Committees of the Faculty.
c. Refer to the Faculty of the School of Medicine, for
discussion and action in open meeting, such questions as
it believes require the attention of the entire School's
Faculty. Any member of the Advisory Committee may introduce
for discussion at meetings any subject relating to the life
of the School of Medicine.
d. Confer the right to vote on members of the Faculty of
the School of Medicine not automatically accorded this right
in the Constitution, Article I, Section 3 (cf. Bylaws, Article
I, Section 4).
e. Review and advise the Dean on proposed academic appointments
and promotions. Voting on these actions shall be limited
to the Department Chairs.
f. Review and advise the Dean on the reappointment of Department
Chairs, Center and Program Directors and other senior administrators
in the School of Medicine. Voting on these actions shall
be limited to the Department Chairs.
3. Reporting: Advisory Committee actions judged by the
Dean to be of major significance to the life of the School
shall be reported in summary fashion to the Faculty of the
School of Medicine as appropriate.
4. Regular Meetings: The Advisory Committee shall meet
at the call of the Dean, who serves as permanent Chair. Regular
meetings shall be held quarterly or as deemed necessary by
the Dean.
5. During intervals between regular meetings of the Advisory
Committee, the Dean may convene the Department Chairs, as
he/she deems necessary and as frequently as he/she deems
appropriate, to fulfill any and all responsibilities of the
Advisory Committee. Any action taken by the Department Chairs
at such a meeting shall be considered to be the action of
the Advisory Committee.
6. Quorum: The presence of 50% of the members of the Advisory
Committee shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the
Committee. The presence of 50% of the Department Chairs shall
constitute a quorum of that group.
1. Composition: Membership shall consist of ten members,
nominated by the Dean and appointed by the Chancellor. Service
shall be for three years. One-fifth of the members shall
be replaced annually, and members may be reappointed for
one additional successive term. The Board shall consist of
five voting members of the Advisory Committee of the School
of Medicine, nominated by the Dean; one faculty member from
each of the other four Health Affairs schools, nominated
by the respective Dean of the School; and one faculty member
from the College of Arts and Sciences, nominated by the Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences. Each of these individuals
shall have one vote. In addition, the remaining membership
of the Advisory Committee of the School of Medicine shall
serve as ex officio members and shall not have the right
to vote.
2. Chair: The presiding officer shall be the Dean of the
School of Medicine.
3. Responsibilities:
a. The Administrative Board shall advise the Dean in educational
policies as requested by the Dean.
b. The Administrative Board shall advise the Dean in the
handling of administrative matters as requested by the Dean.
c. The Administrative Board shall examine and pass finally
on all new courses which are the responsibility of the School
of Medicine Faculty; examine, approve, and forward all graduate
or undergraduate courses for which departments of the School
of Medicine are responsible to the College of Arts and Sciences
or the Graduate School.
d. The Administrative Board shall perform such other duties
as may be delegated to it by the Dean.
4. Meetings: The Administrative
Board shall be convened, at the discretion of the Dean, not
less often than once annually,
in association with a regularly scheduled meeting of the
Advisory Committee of the School of Medicine.
Each appointment to and promotion within the Faculty of
a Department shall be initiated by the Chair of the Department
after consultation with the assembled full professors of
the Department. Recommendations from the Chair shall be presented
to the Dean. The Dean shall seek the advice of the Department
Chairs of the School of Medicine on all proposed faculty
appointments at the rank of tenured Associate Professor or
above and all proposed promotions within the tenure track,
prior to transmitting his/her recommendations to the Chancellor.
1. The number of faculty of each Department shall be in
keeping with the Department's responsibilities in teaching,
research, service, and administration, and shall be determined
by the Dean in consultation with the Chair of the Department.
In such determinations the Dean and the Chair shall take
into account, among other things, the financial and non-financial
resources available to the Department, and the prevailing
compensation levels of the Department's faculty in the context
of similarly situated faculty in other U.S. schools of medicine.
2. Recommendations concerning appointment of Department
Chairs shall be initiated by the Dean after consultation
with the full professors of the Department and the Advisory
Committee of the School of Medicine.
3. The Faculty of each Department shall meet at least once
each quarter. It shall, in addition, meet on the call of
the Chair, or on the request of a majority of the members
of the Department. The Faculty of the Department shall hear
reports from and make recommendations to the Chair concerning
the affairs of the Department. The Chair shall be the presiding
officer at meetings of the Faculty of a Department.
These Bylaws may be amended in the following manner:
1. Any proposed amendment shall be presented at a regular
meeting or a special meeting of the Faculty of the School
of Medicine called for this purpose.
2. Following its presentation, the proposed amendment shall
be considered by the appropriate Standing or Ad Hoc Committee.
3. The proposed amendment shall be acted upon at a regular
meeting or meeting called for this purpose occurring no sooner
than 30 days after the meeting at which it was introduced.
Notice of the proposed action shall appear in the agenda,
which shall have been distributed to all voting members of
the Faculty of the School of Medicine at least one week in
advance of the meeting.
4. The Dean, with approval of the Advisory Committee, may
elect to utilize mailed ballots for certain proposed amendments.
In such instances, ballots shall be distributed to all voting
members of the Faculty.
5. A majority of the votes cast shall be necessary for
adoption of the proposed amendment.
The Bylaws may be suspended for any meeting, at which a
quorum is present, by unanimous vote of all eligible voters
present.
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