UMBC Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting

March 4, 2022, WebEx (See access info on page 2)

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

 

 

I.      Updates on Adjunct Bonuses/COLA in 2023

a.     7.5% raise applied to Spring 2023 and moving forward

b.     Have all departments in your college notified adjuncts?

II.      Sub-Committee Reports

a.     Advocacy Sub-Committee

1.     Update on # of people in WebEx Group?

2.     Anyone else sent out invites?

3.     What’s best process for doing that?

b.     Spring Workshop Sub-committee

1.     What are we going to call it?

2.     Nail down date so we can promote and plan
 

III.      Spring Initiatives

a.     Academic year contracts working with Provost’s office to uncover why people aren’t doing it, answer those concerns, and roll out to all colleges by Fall 2022.

1.     Matt Baker working with MLLI to establish year long contracts

IV.      Elections & Addendums to by-laws

a.     Think we should hold elections for AFAC in early April (rather than May)

b.     Think we should codify election dates in our by-laws

c.      Elect chair in beginning of semester (nominations first meeting/vote by second meeting?)

d.     Would like to add a provision that the chair along with the committee member(s) of the particular college can nominate a candidate to fill a vacated seat with the majority approval of that nomination by the committee and Provost

e.     This would make it easier to make sure we stay in compliance with by-law requiring a full committee

f.       No individual shall serve as the chairperson for more than two one-year terms. These terms may or may not be consecutive. Once an individual has served for two years, they are no longer eligible to serve as chairperson.

g.     The terms of Individual committee members shall be limited to two consecutive two-year terms. An individual may run for reelection in two years. 

 

 

V.      New Business