AAUP RESOLUTION ON DIVISION-LEVEL WEB
PAGE MANAGEMENT
PASSED OCT. 20, 2000
(And decided to forward to Faculty Senate for further consideration)
Whereas an informed university community is a desirable goal, and
Whereas academic divisions at Truman at serve as an important source
of information to respective discipline faculty and students as well
as a useful source of information for purposes of student recruitment,
faculty recruitment and alumni updates, and
Whereas the quantity, quality, and currency of information available
on these Web pages is extremely uneven, ranging from good to poor
Whereas most quality universities now have current and informative academic
division Web pages at the administrative level of dean
Be it resolved that AAUP hereby strongly encourages each division head
to conduct a review of respective division Web pages and to establish procedure
by which pages promulgating announcements, schedules of meetings and events,
information relating to academic advising, division-level policies and
procedures, and other division-specific information can be kept current
and navigable;
Be it further resolved that the respective division heads be requested
to establish a procedure of oversight, to be made publicly available, by
which division-level academic pages are reviewed and monitored for currency,
substance, and the capacity to positively reflect on each academic division
and the University as a whole;
Be it finally resolved that the maintenance and conformance of division-level
administration Web pages be an element included in the annual faculty evaluation
of the division head.