UCLA ACADEMIC SENATE MANUAL
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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Composition and Scope
1.1.  The Faculty Executive Committee will provide advice, counsel, and recommendations to the Dean and Department Chair on all matters of school wide significance including but not limited to:
1.1.1. The allocation of FTE to Academic units and programs, authorizations to recruit, and the appointment of search committees.
1.1.2.

The criteria for appointment of ad hoc committees for all academic personnel reviews and appointments.

1.1.3. The adoption, modification, or elimination of degree programs, area concentrations, executive education programs, and interdisciplinary or area study centers.
1.1.4. Criteria and procedures for faculty promotions and tenure.
1.1.5. Oversight of all degree and executive programs to be achieved by reviewing and approving appointments to all standing committees of the school, i.e., the MBA Policy committee, Doctoral Board, Executive Education Program Faculty Oversight Committee (to be established), Research Committee, and Teaching Improvement Committee, and by coordinating the activities of these committees.
1.1.6. The appointment of Department Chairs, academic and research unit chairs, and other administrative appointments involving faculty activities.
1.1.7.  Other matters deemed appropriate for discussion by the Committee.
1.2.   The Faculty Executive Committee will be composed of six elected tenure-track faculty members, the Dean and the Department Chairman.
1.3.   The elected faculty members will serve (staggered) three year terms.
1.4.   The Dean and Department Chairman will serve as non-voting ex-officio members.
1.5.   The Committee will be co-chaired by an elected faculty member (chosen by the other elected faculty members on the Committee) and the Dean.
1.6.   The FEC is not intended to replace other standing School committees, but rather is intended to be a mechanism for directing and integrating their work. It is not intended to replace the area chairs, who should continue in place and exercise responsibility for course scheduling and staffing as well as for the day-to-day management for their areas.  Whereas area chairs most properly will be concerned with area-specific interests, the FEC will take a schoolwide perspective.
1.7.   This committee may request delegation of some authorities from Academic Senate units, i.e., Graduate Division/Graduate Council.
Nominations and Elections
2.1. The Department Chairman will distribute nomination forms to all members of the Academic Senate one month prior to the annual election of Executive Committee members.  Nominations should normally occur in April, with elections to follow in May.  In all years subsequent to the first election, newly elected members will take office on July 1 following their election.
2.2. Because this is a committee of the Academic Senate, only Senate members will be eligible to run for election.  A Senate member must be nominated by at least one other Senate member in order to appear on the ballot.  Consent of the candidate must be obtained in order to validate the nomination.
2.3. Nominations will be tabulated and ballots distributed by the Department Chairman.  Voting will be done by secret mail ballot of all eligible voters (i.e., all members of the Academic Senate), with one week allowed for voting.
2.4. Staggered terms implies that, after the first election, there would normally be two vacancies per year, with the number occasionally being larger due to sabbaticals, resignations, and the like.  For the first election, nominations will be for two one-year, two two-year, and two three-year terms.  In subsequent years, nominations will be for two three-year term positions, plus remainder terms for any current member unable to continue to serve.
2.5. For the first election, members will assume office immediately, and will serve for the remainder of the 1992-1993 academic year in addition to the terms for which they are elected.
2.6. Voters may vote for as many candidates as positions to be filled with the stipulation that only one vote may be cast per candidate per voter, i.e., voters may not cast multiple votes for a single candidate.
Operating Procedures
3.1. The Executive Committee will meet at least twice per quarter.
3.2. The agenda for each meeting will be distributed to all faculty in advance.
3.3. Minutes summarizing the Committee's discussions, actions, and recommendations will be distributed to all faculty subsequent to each meeting within a reasonable period of time after each meeting.
3.4. Meetings may be called by the Dean, the faculty co-chair, or a majority of the voting members of the committee.
3.5.  Faculty may request any member of the Executive Committee to place an item on the Committee's agenda, and Committee members may individually place items on the Committee's agenda.
3.6. The Departmental administrative assistant will assist the faculty co-chair of the Committee in distributing notices, calling meetings, etc.  Under the Executive Committee arrangement, it is envisioned that the AGSM faculty and administration will work in partnership to provide strategic direction and operational oversight to the School.
3.7. A majority of the Faculty Executive Committee will have the power to call a Department or School meeting upon two weeks notice. 

AUGUST 1, 1994

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