Models

This collection consists of materials related to the transition at Rice from small committees to a faculty senate for governance at the University. There are meeting minutes, including the initial decision by Faculty Council to initiate a process for changing the system of governance, as well as the work of the Governance Task Force May to September, 2004. Also included are reports of research on systems of governance at other institutions. There are records pertaining to decisions about the Promotion and Tenure and other committees. The collection includes the content of the website created to make the process known by the faculty at large as well as to provide a means of gathering comments from individuals who wanted to offer them.