Subbi P. Mathur (Chair) reported that her committee met on Monday, February 11. It was unanimously decided to review and update the Faculty Hand Book Policies on Faculty Tenure (Section 6.4) and Faculty Separation (Section 7.0). The unanimous concerns were that there is no uniform financial guarantee of tenure and that a tenured position is linked to a program and the position can be terminated with the ending of the program or even a department.

The Committee decided to conduct a Workshop on Tenure for the General Faculty during the week after MUSC graduation in May, 2002. It was suggested to include a section on grant education in the career enhancement section of the Workshop to benefit the junior Faculty. The next meeting will be at 10 AM, Monday March 11.

Philippe Arnaud (Chair) defined the major mission of the Committee to be a review of faculty compensation policies at MUSC and compare them with those of other institutions. Some of the problems associated with faculty compensation that were identified at the meeting are: A lack of uniform cost of living increase award for the faculty members and that Faculty compensation does not follow the same rules as administration compensation. AAMC does classify the medical school faculty members into different categories and compares the salaries in each category between various schools and provides us with a mean and a range of salaries in that category. It was decided that we shall obtain authorization from Dr. Greenberg to compare MUSC faculty salaries at various categories with those from other institutions.

Dr. Arnaud also raised an important point about the dispensation of indirect costs awarded to a successful grant application that never directly benefit the principal investigator who conceived the project. A separate task force consisting of Eberhard Voit, Gail Pashek, Narendra L. Banik, Kit Simpson, Paul Gold, Carlos Salinas and Susan Tate who volunteered from the Senate floor, will explore the issue relating to indirect costs dispensation.

Francine R. Margolius (Chair) reported that the fully approved blue and minor grammatical purple corrections have been incorporated into the Faculty Hand Book which is ready to be submitted to Dr. Rosalie Crouch, the Provost, for the latter's review. She made the motion, supported by her Committee that this version of Faculty Hand Book be approved by the Faculty Senate. The motion was unanimously approved.

She reported that her committee will get together about organizing the details on the oncoming election to be held in May 2002. She is working with the Provost's office and has confirmed that about 912 (the numbers will change depending on new hires and retirees at the time of election) faculty members are eligible voters of whom 25 do not have emails. This situation will be corrected by election time so that these 25 members also can participate in the electoral process.