Faculty Council Meeting May 26th, 2015 Wenlong Bai Issues Raised about Bylaws • Attendance Issue (Dr. Cuevas): – Modification to the bylaws that permits removal of committee/subcommittee members with unexcused absences. This is particularly important for Curriculum, Medical Student Selection and ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE committees. • LCME review issues (Dr. Bognar): Bylaws Committee Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:00-5:00 P.M. GL 11 in the Group Learning area (also known as MDL 1028A) Video Conferencing Available Dialing information: [email protected] John Frosbutter assisted with the video setup Phone: 813-974-3161 Mobile: 813-391-2352 Meeting Participants • Committee members who attended the meeting are Orhan Arslan, PhD, Wenlong Bai, PhD, Arzu Ilercil, MD, Amarilis Sanchez-Valle, MD, and Gina Musolino, EdD. • Eric Bean, DO, joined the meeting through video conference from Lehigh Valley. • Lisa Gamell, MD, was excused from the meeting due to scheduling conflict. • Dr. William S. Quillen, PT, DPT, PhD, FACSM, Associate Dean, Professor & Director, School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences was also present in the meeting. Changes to Address Attendance Issue • The committee discussed the wording about the proposed changes in bylaws to address attendance issues and voted unanimously (6-0) to add the following statements to Article VIII: ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES, Section I: GENERAL and Article IX: POLICY COMMITTEES; Section I: GENERAL: – All committee members shall make every effort to attend each meeting. Committee or subcommittee members shall be removed if attendance falls below 70% or 3 consecutive committee meetings are missed; this does not apply to excused absence as approved by the committee chair. Changes Suggested by PT&RS • Dr. Quillen explained the rationale behind the changes in the bylaws suggested by the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences. The committee discussed the suggested changes and voted unanimously (60) to approve them. • The changes are listed in next few slides – (added: in red; deleted: strikethrough in blue) Article V, Section II, THE VICE PRESIDENT ARTICLE VIII. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES, SECTION 4: ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEES ARTICLE VIII. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES SECTION 5: COMMITTEE ON APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION AND TENURE ARTICLE IX. POLICY COMMITTEES Section V, COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL STUDENT AFFAIRS ARTICLE IX. POLICY COMMITTEES SECTION 6: COMMITTEE ON GRADUATE MEDICAL SCIENCES EDUCATION AND GRADUATE STUDENT AFFAIRS ARTICLE X. FACULTY COUNCIL COMMITTEES SECTION 2: NOMINATING COMMITTEE Issues for Next Meeting • The committee briefly talked about the suggested changes in the bylaws to address concerns raised by recent LCME review and decided to postpone the discussion to next meeting after the formal LCME report is received. • Issues about the lack of sufficient representation of clinical faculty members in APT committee has been raised. This will be discussed and address in the next meeting.
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