Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee (FGPC)

Collection

Identifier: BC06-09

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Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection contains Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee (FGPC) meeting minutes, correspondence, supporting documents, and reports.

Dates

Creation: 1991 - 2024

Access

This collection has no restrictions. This collection is located on-site.

Reproduction Restrictions

Reproductions can be made for research purposes.

Publication Rights

No permission is required for reproductions of materials in the public domain or uses that fall within fair use exemptions to copyright as defined under U.S. Copyright Law.

Barnard College retains copyright of materials created as part of its business operations. To request permission to reproduce these types of materials, please contact us at archives@barnard.edu.

This collection may also contain materials created by others, for which copyright is not held by the College. In order to reproduce these materials, permission from the Archives is not required, but it is researchers' responsibility to determine and obtain any necessary permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

Please see our Reproductions, Copyright, and Citing Archives page for more information and contact us at archives@barnard.edu with any questions.

Historical Summary

The Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee (FGPC) is responsible for issues of faculty governance and procedures, including organizing and operating faculty meetings (which encompasses preparation of agendas as well as review of the minutes); conducting elections of faculty to various elected committees and other elected positions; appointing faculty to non-elected committees and standing tripartite committees; advising, upon request of the President or the Provost/Dean of the Faculty, on the appointment of faculty members to special or ad hoc committees; reviewing periodically the structure, charge and composition of faculty committees and election procedures; serving in grievance proceedings as provided in the Code of Academic Freedom and Tenure; and serving as a forum for discussion of issues concerning faculty governance and procedures and referring issues as it deems appropriate to faculty committees and meetings for discussion and action (Barnard Faculty Committees Website 4/1/2024).

Extent

.50 Linear Feet (1 document box)

.04 Gigabytes (678 files)

Language

English

Additional Description

Overview

This collection consists of materials from The Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee (FGPC)

Collection Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically. Additionally, the archivist completed high-level physical rearrangement to allow the digital materials to be easily integrated into a single system of arrangement. The archivist placed the digital documents, at the highest directory level, into a new folder with a new file name.

Physical Location

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Acquisition Information

The draft of the Code of Academic Freedom and Tenure with memo from Faculty Executive Committee was transferred to the Barnard Archives in 1978 from a library staff member named Natalie Sonevytsky. Other materials related to the Faculty Planning Committee were transferred to the Barnard Archives in 2015 and 2024; the source of the acquistion is unknown.

Accruals

Additions are expected.

Related Collections

The President's Office collection, BC05.22, includes many committee materials and supporting documentation.

Processing History

In April 2024, Olivia Newsome moved this collection from a larger collection of faculty committees, BC06.01, to the current collection, BC06.09, to highlight this long-standing committee. Olivia Newsome also updated the finding aid at this time. In July 2024, Olivia Newsome processed an additional accural. In June 2025, Olivia Newsome processed a digital accural.