Highlights of Faculty Task Force Recommendations : Grievance Procedure
- Reorganize and clarify the entire article, so it is easier to understand and use; reduce cumbersome bureaucracy.
- Make grievable any violation of University rules, written policies, or department/college bylaws.
- Provide a much longer and fairer deadline before faculty lose the right to file a grievance.
- Mandate better procedures for resolving grievances informally.
- Have grievances cases heard by a faculty panel instead of panels composed only of administrators.
- Make it easier and faster to adjudicate actions that violate the rights of two or more faculty members.
- Remove procedural inequities and give the arbitrator more latitude to remedy damages to faculty.
- Ensure that remedies of grievances are implemented promptly and efficiently.
- Guarantee that there can be no reprisals against faculty participating in the grievance process.
