Peter Taylor's role in the GCOE College Personnel Committee

PHASE 1: Consultation and communication during Sept & Oct '03 while CPC chair

• Full record of communications leading to proposed additions and substitutions to the CPC (up to 10/28/03; with names removed on personal emails)
  
• Draft guidelines for participation in CPC reviews also emerged from these consultations.
  
  After hearing about the proposed substitutions, the Senate chair requested and I supplied a
• summary of what had occurred (10/28/03)

PHASE 2: Attempted input into deliberations over reconstituting the CPC (Oct/Nov '03)

• Summary of CPC chair's perspective on reconstituting the CPC (11/10/03)
  
• Full set of Documents For the Public Record
  
  After supplying the summary on 10/28/03, it became clear I was not in the decision-making loop. I did not campaign against the proposed changes and left it to the judgement of the Senate Exec. whether to make my alternative perspective (containing in the 11/10/03 memo) known to the Senate members or the wider GCOE community-this did not happen.
  The Senate voted on 11/13/03 to terminate the elected CPC after completion of a 4th year review in the fall and to appoint a new CPC for the spring, consisting of all the full professors in the College, to undertake the review of the three candidates for promotion to full professor.

PHASE 3: Transition/ hybrid CPC

After the motion was passed, I received advice about the CPC's responsibility to assure candidates that there will be no questions about the process of their reviews. This advice indicated that I should bring the full record of CPC affairs to the attention of the Provost's office. I was reluctant to take the matter outside the College, so I took the alternative course of resigning from membership in the CPC.

• CPC chair to CPC: Resignation from CPC (11/18/03)
  I delivered the public paper and electronic files I had to the Dean's secretary so the new CPC chairs could have access to them.
  However, the Dean strongly urged me to rejoin the CPC to complete the 4th year review -- but not to serve as chair -- and I agreed:
• Email to the Dean (11/18/03)
  
  When the 4th. year review was delayed, a hybrid CPC was proposed to the Senate meeting in December. I took the opportunity of this new proposal to suggest explication of the principles and precedents that would be passed on to future CPCs be clarified and to propose an alternative course of action. This was not taken up by the Senate.
  
• Memo to the Senate (12/10/03)
  
  I was not contacted by the new CPC chair (or anyone else) to review the 4th. year materials and learned in March '04 that this review had been completed without my input.

PHASE 4: New CPC for reviews of candidates for promotion to full professor

Following the Senate motion of 11/13/03, I was not a member of this CPC.

PHASE 5: Moving into the future

I circulated to the Senate and members of both CPCs, proposed bylaw changes and rationales that I submitted at the time I was CPC chair (with a few subsequent refinements). These changes would insure that the Senate not be asked to make the kind of mid-year changes to the College Personnel Committee that were made this year and would prevent other situations requiring ad hoc measures from arising.