D. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 2
1. Request for Temporary Waiver of Faculty Tenure Rules … (cont’d)
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D. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS2
1. Request for Temporary Waiver of Faculty Tenure Rules … (cont’d) . . .
Board Action: APPROVED, with the requirement that the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice Chancellor of UP Diliman to submit to the BOR at the soonest possible time the stricter rules for tenure of some colleges, as well as new rules on tenure for approval of the Board.
The Board directed UP Diliman not to submit to the BOR any further request for waiver of faculty tenure rules beyond AY2018-2019, until the Board has approved the new rules on tenure.
1.1 President Concepcion and Regent Arinto expressed their understanding that the requests for waiver are on the basis of University tenure rules and not the stricter rules imposed by the colleges.
1.2 Vice Chancellor Amor confirmed that what they are waiving is the university rule but the reason for the request is due to the stricter rules imposed by the colleges.
1.3 Chair de Vera asked for a compelling reason why they should approve someone who is requesting for an eighth waiver. If the reason is due to the stricter rules, then the problem is that the Board never approved those stricter rules.
1.4 Regent Arinto suggested that they can grant a provisional waiver of tenure rules for a very limited period and with instructions of the Board, such as, to have units submit the recommendations for tenure.
1.5 Chair de Vera said that he is not ready to act on waivers for colleges with stricter rules that were not approved by the Board. He said that colleges with stricter tenure rules should get the Board’s approval first before they can decide on their requests for waiver.
1.6 Vice President Bautista informed the Board that they are now correcting a practice that the Board may not be fully aware of. In effect, her office is asking all the tenure rules from the CUs so they can be brought up to the Board for approval within the next few months.
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2These appointments have gone through the standard University peer review process from the Department to the College, the Constituent Universities concerned, and the University System. In cases where there was doubt about the process followed or about the fairness of the recommendations, the papers were returned to the unit concerned for review and recommendation.
II. MATTERS APPROVED BY THE BOARD (cont’d) . . .
D. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS2
1. Request for Temporary Waiver of Faculty Tenure Rules … (cont’d) . . .
1.7 President Concepcion clarified that there is a BOR resolution that seems to have delegated to the academic units the authority to impose stricter rules and it was not stated that they are required to bring it up to the Board for approval. However, he said that there is still a problem with the request for an eighth waiver.
1.8 Regent Arinto expressed concern about the evaluation process at the department level because a request for a fourth waiver would indicate that the person cannot meet the requirements for tenure.
1.9 Chair de Vera suggested that a possible reason for these conditions is that the units do not bring up their stricter rules to the Board for approval. The discretion lies exclusively with the colleges.
1.10 President Concepcion noted the practical effect of the Board’s decision on the matter. If they do not approve the request for waiver, two scenarios may happen.
One is that the faculty can stay with the University but will no longer be on tenure- track but be hired as lecturer. The other scenario is that he/she might leave the University because of the change of track, thus, the University loses a faculty member.
1.11 President Concepcion agreed that there should be a limited period for the waiver.
1.12 Regent Jimenez said that he is in favor of granting the requests for waiver, but with a very strong sense of the Board that this is just for one year.
1.13 Chair de Vera said that while the Board may have approved that units may have stricter rules, they should be strict on the number of waivers they can approve. The expectation is that the faculty finishes his doctoral degree within a certain period of time to be granted tenure.
1.14 President Concepcion said that if stricter rules are being implemented, the period for granting of tenure should then be longer to avoid requests for waiver.
1.15 Vice Chancellor Amor said that they are working on determining the reasonable time to be given to the faculty to earn tenure. She said that they will settle this issue within a year.
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2These appointments have gone through the standard University peer review process from the Department to the College, the Constituent Universities concerned, and the University System. In cases where there was doubt about the process followed or about the fairness of the recommendations, the papers were returned to the unit concerned for review and recommendation.
II. MATTERS APPROVED BY THE BOARD (cont’d) . . .
D. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS2
1. Request for Temporary Waiver of Faculty Tenure Rules … (cont’d) . . .
1.16 Vice President Bautista added that they are revising the tenure rules and it will go through a series of consultations before they will endorse it to the Board for approval.
1.17 Chair de Vera wanted to put on record that he objects to the approval of requests for a fourth, fifth, until eighth waiver. Regent Farolan registered his abstention on the matter.
1.18 Chair de Vera said that there should be no request for waiver endorsed to the Board until this issue has been sorted out and the new rules approved. The new rules should be brought up to the Board in less than a year because there will soon be requests for waiver again. Further, all stricter rules should go to the Board.
1.19 However, Vice Chancellor Amor and Vice President Bautista requested that they be given one year to sort this out because they cannot undo 24 years of practices in just two months.
1.20 Given that majority of the members of the Board were in favour of approving the requests for waiver, the same was approved, with the requirement that the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice Chancellor of UP Diliman submit to the BOR at the soonest possible time the new rules on tenure for approval of the Board.
1.21 Vice President Bautista clarified that there are two matters here. One is that the stricter rules that have not gone up to the Board for approval should be submitted to the Board. The other are the new tenure rules which will go through consultations first before it can be brought up to the Board for approval. She said that they may bring it up to the Board after December 2018.
1.22 Vice Chancellor Amor informed the Board that most of the requests for waiver are for Academic Year 2018-2019 and there are still a number of requests that they are processing. Her prayer is for the Board to consider requests for waiver of tenure rules from UP Diliman for AY 2018-2019 only. This will also allow them time to sort everything out before the new rules may be submitted to the Board for approval.
Vice President Bautista confirmed that there are still requests for AY 2018-2019 and that they are in the process of correcting past practices.
1.23 Acting on the request of Vice Chancellor Amor, the Board agreed that it will accept requests for waiver of tenure rules only up to Academic Year 2018-2019.
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2These appointments have gone through the standard University peer review process from the Department to the College, the Constituent Universities concerned, and the University System. In cases where there was doubt about the process followed or about the fairness of the recommendations, the papers were returned to the unit concerned for review and recommendation.
II. MATTERS APPROVED BY THE BOARD (cont’d) . . .
D. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS2
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2. Appointment of Faculty: Transfer to Permanent Status