Academic Policy  1405.50 

Faculty Governance Support

The University of Arkansas wishes to encourage the active involvement of faculty in the governance structure of the institution. Faculty involvement in university administration is critical to the collaborative management of the University of Arkansas. To that end, the Provost’s Office provides funds to both faculty members and their departments to cover workload redistribution for service to campus governance for the faculty members elected to chair the Campus Faculty and the Faculty Senate and additional compensation for other campus governance officers. . The following will be the plan for support of the campus governance officers.

• Chair of Faculty Senate and Campus Faculty
  • The elected faculty member and their department head/chair will develop a letter of agreement (LOA) on the appropriate use of funds received to support the faculty member’s effort during the academic year of service, with the approval of the dean and provost. The faculty member’s department will receive.
    • $10,000 plus fringe benefits to offset the instructional cost of buying out two courses. If the faculty member does not reduce their teaching load during the academic year, this funding will be provided as extra compensation.
    • $15,000 which may be designated for use to support research, scholarship, or creative productivity of the faculty member or to offset the service or administrative roles within the department performed by the faculty member. If there is no offset of the workload distribution, the funds will be provided from the department as extra compensation to the faculty member for taking on the additional faculty governance duties.
  • Faculty governance officers
    • The department of the vice chair of Faculty Senate and the parliamentarian of Faculty Senate will each receive $1,000 plus fringe benefits which shall be paid to the faculty officers as extra compensation.
    • The department of the secretary of Faculty Senate who maintains the web site, official membership lists (including committee memberships), and agendas and records the minutes of the Senate and Campus Faculty meetings will receive $3,000 plus fringe benefits which shall be paid to the secretary as extra compensation.
  • Faculty Senate
    • The faculty senate will receive $500 per year for incidental meeting expenses. Receipts should be submitted to the Provost’s Office for reimbursement.