Minutes, College of Medicine Faculty Council Meeting 4-15-14

Attendance:
Basic Sciences
Blonder, Lee
Jones, Davy

Mendenhall, Michael
Swanson, Hollie
Wilson, Melinda

Clinical
DOrazio, John
Jackson, Wendy
Kearney, Paul
Nelson, Peter
Springer, Joe
Stevens, Julia

Valentino, Joseph
*in attendance
Guests: Dean Fred de Beer, General Counsel Bill Thro, Executive Vice President for
Health Affairs Michael Karpf, Faculty Trustee John Wilson
Chair Swanson thanked all for meeting with the Faculty Council to discuss issues pertaining to
the Practice Plan. EVPHA Karpf gave a summary of his experiences at other academic health
centers and described events that led to the current structure at University of Kentucky Health
Care. The discussion then turned to the roles and responsibilities of the Faculty Council.
General Counsel Thro explained that faculty governance means that the faculty have decision
making responsibilities over educational policy activities. FC member Jones added that faculty,
including the FC, have an advisory role in administrative policy-making, to which Karpf agreed.
It was also emphasized that the college-level Faculty practice plan lies within the administrative
sphere and that the faculty currently have six elected faculty representatives on the COM
Practice Plan Commitee. Additional discussion focused on Administrative Regulation 3:14 and
the College of Medicines Addendum to it. This is a regulation that was approved by the Board
of Trustees (in June 2009). Questions from a number of FC members focused on the six nonchair members of the College-level Practice Plan, the identity of the members, the process by
which they were elected and how COM faculty would be able to contact these members. In
response to one of these questions, Thro stated that the only University entity authorized to
change the provisions of AR 3:14 about the Practice Plan Committee is the Board of Trustees.
It was further stated that the COM Faculty Council survey indicated that faculty were not
pleased with how the most recent practice plan was rolled out. Karpf agreed to send
information regarding the identity of the faculty members of the Practice Plan. Mendenhall
moved that the FC meet the following week to decide what we would like to see happen. The
motion was seconded by Springer and approved unanimously.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:30.