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■ The Faculty Senate on Monday
approved unanimously a document
which, if put into use, would broa
den the categories of performance
fatuity must show before being con
sidered for promotion and tenure.
■Three major faculty performance
categories — teaching, creation and
dissemination of new knowledge or
other creative activities, and service
— are included in the document.
■ When considering teaching per-
formance, a faculty member would
H judged on the following (among
other things):
jg • Classroom and lab instruction.
|t • Development of new courses,
labs, and teaching methods.
Ill* Publication of instructional
materials.
I* • Supervision of graduate stu
dents.
■ Although the second category
would primarily consis't of research
and publication, some disciplines
may include other forms of creative
aciivity such as architectural design,
engineering technology, fiction, po-
e|ry, painting and sculpture.
HA faculty members’ service would
be judged by how they served the
University — students, colleagues,
department and college — as well as
service beyond the campus.
The document also suggests that
each college establish written
guidelines describing its own evalua
tion process.
In other business, the Senate
adopted a resolution that would al-
would judge the individual’s contri
butions and forward the informa
tion to the college dean. The dean
would submit the recommendation
to a Committee for Emeritus Status,
which would then report to the pro
vost and, finally, the president.
The resolution recommends eme
ritus status be given to those “judged
to have made noteworthy and mer-
The resolution recommends emeritus status be given to
those “judged to have made noteworthy and merito
rious contributions to the academic programs of the
University. ”
low a faculty member to be judged
for emeritus status by an open com
mittee instead of a select group.
The resolution says that every ten
ured faculty member who, at the
time of retirement, has served the
University at least 10 years must be
considered for emeritus status and
that non-tenured faculty who have
served less than 10 years also may be
considered.
A committee open to all available
tenured faculty and convened by the
faculty member’s department head
itorious contributions to the aca
demic programs of the University.”
A related Senate resolution, also
approved Monday, suggests that the
Committee on Emeritus Status be
composed of the dean of faculties
plus one tenured faculty member
from each academic college exclud
ing the Graduate College. The reso
lution sets the term of service on the
committee at three years and estab
lishes the scope and powers of the
body.
Speaking to the Senate’s commit
tee of the whole at the end of the
meeting, Dr. Chester Dunning, asso
ciate professor of history, asked for
an investigation by the Senate’s Ex
ecutive Committee into a Nov. 3 pro
gram sponsored by the Memorial
Student Center’s Political Forum.
Dunning’s motion was unanimously
approved by the Senate.
Dunning said the program titled
“A Panorama of Republican Persec-
tives on the State of Texas” was bi
ased and was obviously a forum for
Republican candidates to campaign
the day before the election. Fie said
how the situation came about was
not important, but he said it should
not have been sponsored by a Uni
versity organization that should be
politically nonpartisan.
In other business, the Senate:
• Recommended that insurance
personnel for the Texas A&M Uni
versity System give regular, timely
reports to the Faculty Senate, which
would cover employee benefits pol
icy information.
• Elected Dr. Don Russell, asso
ciate professor of electrical engi
neering, to the Senate Executive
Committee.
• Approved several new under
graduate and graduate courses.
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I AUSTIN (AP) — Many companies involved in
the solar energy industry have closed their doors
Because of plummeting sales of solar water heat
ing equipment and the end of solar tax credits,
industry observers say.
I The industry knew it would have problems in
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I Even in Austin, where the city has promoted
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The statewide industry organization, which
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first of the year, Osborne said.
The renewable energy industry includes ev
erything from solar electric cells to wind genera
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the sale of equipment that uses the sun’s energy
to heat water and swimming pools.
Sales of solar units were spurred by a federal
credit that allowed a 40 percent tax credit on
purchases of up to $10,000 for renewable energy
equipment. Despite heavy lobbying by the indus
try and environmental groups, solar tax credits
were not extended this year.
“The companies knew something bad was
going to happen when the credits ended,” said
Scott Sklar, director of government relations for
the Solar Energy Industries Association in Wash
ington, “but that doesn’t make it feel any better.”
Nevertheless, Sklar and others are optimistic
the industry will bounce back when energy costs
go back up.
“We feel sure the tide is going to turn again,”
Sklar said.
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