Creating and Overseeing Faculty Expert Banks

AS-2686-05/FA - March 10-11, 2005

RESOLVED: That the Academic Senate of the California State University (CSU) recommend to the Chancellor and to campus Academic Senates that they ensure that faculty play a key role in the creation, revision, and periodic review of Faculty Expert banks listing various faculty and their areas of expertise established at the Chancellor's Office and on each campus.

RATIONALE: The University Advancement Office of the Chancellor's Office of the California State University is in the process of establishing a faculty webpage on the CSU website which will have features on individual faculty members from each of the 23 CSU campuses. This listing of faculty expertise will be available both for campuses and the Chancellor's Office. As the faculty webpage will be the "public face" of the CSU faculty, it is important that faculty members be significantly involved in creating and promoting the content of this page. The page should be broadly representative of the CSU faculty and assuring this representation as well as a quality product should be the primary responsibility of the faculty in close cooperation with University Advancement and Public Relations offices. A key segment of this webpage is a "Faculty Expert Bank."