b. Recommendation from the Committee on Rules (Don Lehman, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Alan Fox, Chair) for the revision to the FACULTY HANDBOOK Section: 3 Conduct of Academic Programs (attachment)

Whereas,           the University Faculty are engaged in basic and applied research, and

Whereas,           the University Faculty do not engage in research that cannot be published due to limitations by the funding organization or is classified, and

Whereas,           there are situations when unclassified externally funded research with limits on publication can be significant and meet the best interests of the University, be it therefore

Resolved,          that the Faculty Senate recommends changing the Faculty Handbook to specify situations when the Provost may approve a faculty member to engage in unclassified externally funded research with limits on publication.

Friendly amendment, This Handbook change will be reexamined and brought back to the Faculty Senate in two years.

Approved