Saturday, November 22, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
SB893: Community college boards, etc.; appoint one or more nonvoting faculty representative to board.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 23-9.2:4.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 23-9.2:4.1. Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors.
A. The State Board for Community Colleges, local community
college boards, and the boards of visitors of any four-year state institution
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appoint one or more nonvoting, advisory faculty representatives to their
respective boards. In the case of local community college boards and boards of
visitors, the representatives appointed by the boards shall be chosen from
individuals elected by the faculty or the institution's faculty senate or other
equivalent group of the relevant institution. In the case of the State Board
for Community Colleges, representatives appointed by the Board shall be chosen
from individuals elected by the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee. Such
representatives shall be appointed to serve terms of not less than one 12-month
period, which shall be coterminous with the institution's fiscal year, or for
such terms as may be mutually agreed to by the State Board for Community
Colleges and the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee, or by the local
community college board or the board of visitors, as the case may be, and the
institution's faculty senate or other equivalent group.
B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, or any boards of visitors from excluding such representatives from discussions of faculty grievances, faculty or staff disciplinary matters, or salaries, or other matters, at the discretion of the relevant board.
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