Monthly Meetings
The IFC meets the first Tuesday of every month from September to May for the academic year (in most cases). Members are expected to attend and participate in monthly meetings. A meeting schedule can be found here, and a calendar invitation is sent to members' calendars via Microsoft Outlook.
Agendas
Agenda items often include voting on changes to policies and procedures as well as on council elections. Other agenda items include reports about campus units, strategic initiatives, and IFC committees. At each meeting, there are also reports from the chancellor, executive vice chancellor, and the IFC president.
Agendas for the monthly meetings are approved by the Executive Committee. A few days before the meeting, the agendas are saved to the Meetings webpage and sent out to members and all IU Indianapolis faculty by email reminder.
Members are not encouraged to print the agenda shared in the meeting reminder. There are often updates that are reflected in a printed version shared at the meeting. Members are, however, responsible for printing or downloading linked circulars in the shared agenda before the meeting.
Meeting Location & Attendance
Meetings are most often held in the theater in the IU Indianapolis Campus Center. Upon arrival, all attendees (members and non-members) are asked to sign in for attendance at the registration table. If you are a member and unable to attend a meeting, we ask that you identify an alternate and notify us by email (ude[dot]ui[at]licnuocf) prior to the meeting. The alternate will then need to sign in at the meeting. In addition to signing in, the registration table holds the updated agenda and other handouts that may relate to the meeting or announce campus initiatives of interest to the faculty.
Alternates
A member of the council who must be absent from any meeting may be represented at that meeting by an alternate who is not a member of the council. The alternate will be permitted voice and vote during the meeting provided the alternate member is a member of the voting faculty. The voting faculty are considered full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty. Non-tenure-track faculty are considered voting faculty if they hold the following ranks: clinical, lecturer, professor of practice, and research scientist/scholar appointments.