RETRENCHMENT ADVISORY AND APPEALS

. Composition: 9 members

7 chairs of the Advisory and Appeals Committee for Retrenchment for each of the College/School/University Libraries
1 student
1 Ex Officio: University Equal Employment Opportunity Officer (non-voting)

 b. Selection: Chairs of Advisory and Appeals Committee for Retrenchment are chosen according to the same procedures used in selecting Tenure and Promotion committee chairs or by other procedures adopted by the faculty of the college/school/University Libraries.

If a college/school/University Libraries elects the membership of its Tenure and Promotion Committee and of its Retrenchment Committee, separate elections must be held for each committee. Overlapping membership will be permitted if it arises out of separate elections.

If some portion of the membership of the Tenure and Promotion Committee of a college/school/University Libraries is appointed, and/or if some portion of the membership of the college/school/University Libraries Retrenchment Committee is appointed, then no more than half of the members of either committee may simultaneously be members of the other. The Rules Committee has the authority to grant an exception to this regulation for a particular college/school/University Libraries, if such a request for exception can be justified.

c. Charge:

1. a) To regularly review the status of the university and its component parts in relation to those aspects relevant to possible financial exigency.

b) To participate in preventive planning for the university prior to a declared exigency.

c) To review university and college/school/University Libraries plans for retrenchment should a declaration of financial exigency be necessary

d) To serve as an appeals committee during periods of financial exigency as described in the "Policies and Procedures for the Reduction of Unclassified Staff for Reasons of Financial Exigency" document adopted by the University Faculty September 15, 1980, or as amended.

2. Planning during non-crisis periods

a) Biannual review of the current status and future projections for the University by the President and/or Provost and Vice President  for Academic Affairs and Research with the University Committee and others as appropriate.

b) The chair of the University Committee shall be involved regularly in discussions with the university administration regarding university financial status, especially at time of budget hearings.

c) Review and consideration of policies such as early retirement or semi-retirement, shared positions, faculty retraining and faculty reassignment which could help avoid declaration of financial exigency.

3. During a period of financial exigency.

Function as stated in the "Policies and Procedures for the Reduction of Unclassified Staff for Reasons of financial Exigency" document adopted by the University Faculty September 15, 1980, or as amended.