NTT Senate Representation Questions to consider Data: NTT faculty titles, numbers, affiliations

Some questions Are NTT-teaching faculty underrepresented on the Senate? Is a Senate seat dedicated to NTT-research faculty necessary? Do titles listed in the constitution include all NTT who should be voting faculty? Do requirements for plenary session voting include visiting faculty and should they?

Senate Constitution, Section 2 Senate membership and voting eligibility: “One member is to be, and elected by, faculty holding non-tenured and non- tenure track teaching appointments at the ranks of instructor, lecturer, special appointee, or professor in the practice.”

Senate Constitution, Section 5 Plenary meetings of the faculty: “In plenary sessions the voting faculty comprises all those who can vote in Senate elections and are either...(iii) non- tenure track faculty who teach at least three courses per academic year and are on a two semester annual or longer appointment; or any other faculty classified as benefits eligible.”

At least 173 NTT teaching faculty are voting-eligible 127Lecturer [71 benefits-eligible, 56 no]; 1 visiting 28Professor in (of) the Practice [23 yes, 5 no] 18Instructor [17 yes, 1 no]; 1 visiting Title not listed as voting eligible: 27Senior Lecturer [26 yes, 1 no] Total including Senior Lecturers: 197

NTT-teaching faculty by affiliation 58Humanities 37Jones Graduate School of Business 28Natural Sciences 25Engineering 10Social Sciences 9Architecture 6Shepherd School of Music 26Other

Start dates - NTT teaching year hired to to before 1981 year hired Turnover or new positions?

Senate Constitution, Section 2 Senate membership and voting eligibility: “One member is to be, and elected by, faculty holding non-tenured and non- tenure track research appointments at the ranks of faculty fellow, senior faculty felow, and distinguished faculty fellow.”

Twenty NTT research faculty are voting- eligible 11Faculty Fellow [all benefits eligible] 7Senior Faculty Fellow [all benefits eligible] 2Distinguished Faculty Fellow [all benefits elig.] Total: 20

Thirty-six NTT faculty hold other titles 10Artist teacher (Music) [8 benefits eligible] 7Associate professor (Music) [3 benefits eligible] 11Visiting faculty: asst professor (4); professor (4); fellow (2); writer in residence (1) [10 are benefits-eligible] Other titles: writer-in residence*; research professor; distinguished research professor; professor of music; clinical asst professor*; associate dean; associate conductor; advisor to executive education *not benefits-eligible

Some questions Are NTT-teaching faculty underrepresented on the Senate? Is a Senate seat dedicated to NTT-research faculty necessary? Do titles listed in the constitution include all NTT who should be voting faculty? Do requirements for plenary session voting include visiting faculty and should they?