Faculty Senate members voted Tuesday to reject a resolution that would begin a review of the promotions and tenure policy, which was instituted in 1999.

Members of the Senate voted 37—31 to reject the proposal after many members said it would be premature to institute an inquiry into the five-year-old policy.

The members said there haven’t been enough faculty under the jurisdiction of the new policy to warrant an inquiry.

Connie Post, women and minorities committee chairwoman, said there are tenured and nontenured faculty members who haven’t had a review under the new policy. She said the policy hasn’t actually been in place for five full years.

Bill Robinson, at-large Liberal Arts and Sciences representative and member of the judiciary and appeals council, was also against a review.

“It’s work for burdened faculty when it won’t really produce any results,” Robinson said.

The amount of work faculty would be required to complete in order to review the policy wouldn’t be necessary if the review wasn’t going to produce many results, Robinson said. To review the policy, each faculty member would have to write a summary of how it affected him or her and submit it to a review committee, he said.

Faculty Senate President Jack Girton said the review would allow issues between department policies and university policies to be fixed.

Clark Ford, chairman of the Judiciary and Appeals Council, said the review was needed to provide a set of procedures for such events.

The senate also reviewed how the College of Education and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences will be merged using a reorganization policy adopted at the last meeting.

“We’ve entered into a serious planning stage,” Girton said.

He assured senate members that faculty will have a large amount of input concerning how the colleges would be combined.

He also stressed the merger was only a proposal at the moment.

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Ben Allen echoed Girton’s comments.

“I want to reaffirm that this policy will be followed,” Allen said.

Greg Palmero, Academic Affairs Council chairman, said he was concerned with the possibility of the merger leading to future budget cuts from the state.