​Faculty Council (FC)

Chair: Andy Felt, 2024-2025, afelt@uwsp.edu​. Please check here for committee membership. (Committee memberships are listed by acronym at the bottom of this Excel Workbook. Requires a logon.)

Faculty Representative to Systemwide Shared Governance: Kristi Roth​

Scope and Authority: The Faculty Council has the authority to recommend to the Common Council policies pertaining to the faculty affairs of unclassified personnel with a faculty appointment and to determine such policies subject to review by the Common Council. The Council recommends policies pertaining to unclassified personnel recruitment, appointment, retention, promotion, tenure, and salary, and policies pertaining to the governance of departments, schools, colleges, the university, and the University of Wisconsin System. (Please note: concerns of instructional academic staff may be referred to the Academic Staff Council). Common Council faculty councilors diversification rules can be changed by Faculty Council, pending approval by the faculty members of Common Council. The Council shall have the authority to appoint ad hoc committees, such as a Faculty Salary Subcommittee, when needed.

Subcommittees:  

• Faculty Mediation Subcommittee: Chair: Tim Krause
  The Faculty Mediation Subcommittee appoints hearing committees to conduct hearings in any of the following: non-renewal of probationary faculty appointments; denial of tenure; dismissal of faculty; layoff of faculty for financial emergency; complaints of/against faculty; grievances of/against faculty; failure to reappointment fixed term classroom teaching academic staff; dismissal of classroom teaching academic staff; complaints of/against classroom teaching academic staff; and grievances of/against classroom teaching academic staff. 

• Sabbatical Review Subcommittee: Chair, Rob Michitsch
  The Sabbatical Review Subcommittee monitors the workings of the college-based sabbatical review committees.  It has the authority to create and modify sabbatical policy and procedures that affect all university colleges. The subcommittee consists of eight tenured faculty elected by the faculty and the Director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs as a non-voting ex officio member. Information regarding the sabbatical process is available at the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs 
  
  
• Click here for the Sabbatical Webpage, which includes the application materials and rubrics.
  

• University Awards Subcommittee​: Chair, Beth Kinslow
  The University Awards Subcommittee has the authority, according to rules prescribed by the University Handbook, to select faculty recipients of University Awards and the UW-Stevens Point nominees for the Regents Teaching Excellence Awards (one faculty or teaching academic staff and one academic department/program). 
• See menu bar under Awards​ for Information on deadlines, nominations, and awards.