Bucknell University - Committee on Staff Planning

Faculty Governance
Committee on Staff Planning

Charge (Faculty Handbook, II.C.4)

The Committee develops a staff planning policy, recommends the allocation of instructional positions, coordinates with the President's Staff (charged with administrative staff planning) to develop joint staffing recommendations for faculty and administrative positions, monitors the hiring process, and regularly assesses the effectiveness of the University s faculty staffing procedures. The Committee will make staffing recommendations to the Deans of the Colleges and will report assessments and policy recommendations to the Faculty. It shall be the goal of the Committee to maintain a highly qualified Faculty while matching our Faculty to a gradually changing curriculum and promoting the affirmative action goals of the University.

To meet its charge the Committee on Staff Planning will, among other things, review faculty teaching loads in relation to department curricula, examine department and University staffing, maintain liaison with the College Curriculum Committees, and work with the President's Staff on matters concerning both faculty and administrative staffing.

Pending Business

Recent Business

Committee Membership

Committee on Staff Planning
Position	Name	Term Ends
Provost and VPAA	M. Smyer
Dean of the College of Engineering	J. Orbison
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences	C. Zappe
Faculty - Humanities	P. Buck	May 2010
Faculty - Natural Sciences and Mathematics	P. Gorkin	May 2009
Faculty - Social Sciences	J. Knoedler	May 2009
Faculty - Engineering	D. Cavanagh	May 2011
Faculty - at large	B. Vollmayr-Lee	May 2010

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