Pedagogical Strategies: Understanding Diversity in our Classrooms

The meeeting schedule is subject to Senate Approval

US spending more on prisons than colleges

This document is intended to extend other, previous work by faculty governance, and the central administration, related to the topic of shared University governance and, more specifically, to provide a set of criteria to aid in determining under what circumstances formal, central faculty governance should become directly involved in institutional decision making (e.g., planning and actions).

Shared governance is a cherished tradition of American universities, including the University of Michigan. The first edition of this document was distributed to University of Michigan faculty to clarify the general principles that underlie the roles and responsibilities of the faculty in University governance. The principles are based upon, and intended to be consistent with, the Bylaws of the Board of Regents. This document expands that earlier edition with additional information concerning central faculty governance to supplement the information that was provided earlier concerning academic unit governance. We hope that this document will prove as useful to members of the university community as the first edition was.

General issues regarding promotion and tenure 2008-2009; Senator Massey

This documents includes the Senate approved questions and rating scale for the common questions to include on all student teaching evaluations.

Procedures Approved as amended April 10, 2006

Guidelines for Preparation and Review of Applications for Promotion and/or Tenure

Letter to Faculty

The Faculty Senate's Committee on Faculty Mentoring and Development is pleased to announce the launch of the Faculty Networking System (FNS). FNS is an online, searchable data base of the research and teaching interests of UM-Dearborn faculty. We hope this system will help faculty members more easily connect with others on campus with similar interests.

Academic Integrity Michigan

The CV template was developed by Faculty Senate to help UM-D tenure track faculty to prepare their academic CV for promotion and tenure dossier.

The Senate approved recommendations 1, 3, and 4 on September 17, 2007

Promotion and Tenure Committee formation guidelines - Approved 2006, Amended 2008

The Teaching Effectiveness taskforce, having considered the approaches of UM-Ds academic units regarding their provision of evidence of teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure decisions, observe the following points and make the following recommendations.

This handbook serves as a supplement to the University of Michigan Faculty Handbook for Instructional Staff. The handbook is also complemented by the University of Michigan-Dearborn Student Handbook, which should be consulted for policies and procedures that relate to student academic and non-academic matters.

This faculty handbook contains information about policies and procedures affecting faculty at the University of Michigan.

Follow this link to view or download the results of faculty evaluation of academic administrators.

This document contains campus bylaws on faculty governance. This revised version was approved by The Regents, July 2005, to conform to the University Senate Rules and the University Bylaws. Amended April 21, 2008 regarding apportionment of CASL Senators.