Title
4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, November 18, 2011
Subject(s)
Faculty
Governance
Description
Highlights:
-concerns that the FRC (Faculty Review Committee) or the deans of the three colleges did not provide rationale when they differed from the DRC (Department Review Committee) report
-Senate discussed concerns that the fall reviews may be flawed because they did not follow administrative guidelines and expected process
-President Pollard discussed briefly the recent decision by President Trible to provide a bonus to all full-time faculty employed prior to June 30, 2009
-International Studies Advisory Committee is engaged with a thorough review to organize and categorize the study abroad options offered through CNU by its faculty
-Program Review Committee reviewing Interdisciplinary Studies, Fine Art and Art History, and Chemistry
-Expect a University survey in the early spring semester, probably in January
-some departments in Arts and Humanities that are not represented on the Senate continue to feel underrepresented
-The English department reported that it has completed its curricular review
-The film concentration will be eliminated as will the Journalism concentration
-The Senate discussed the revised statement on Academic Freedom and Responsibility
-University Handbook discussed
-Dossier Organization: Administrative Response
-The response made no mention of the electronic dossier which, now that the institution uses Digital Measures for annual reviews, should be part of every discussion we have on dossier construction
-it is now unclear who administers Digital Measures for the University and if there are support staff who might be able to manage the electronic dossier
-Some senators objected to any move towards an electronic dossier noting that Digital Measures seems unnecessarily cumbersome and unreliable
-in the administrative response, there was no place to include relevant service materials
-Others commented on the limitations placed on some more prolific faculty who might need additional space to include scholarly production than one binder would allow
-The SEC is committed to revisit the issue of dossier content and will draft a counterproposal expressing faculty concerns.
-The Senate also made the case that the administrative response seems to focus on only one kind of teaching evaluation material, the IDEA student surveys
-The Senate discussed the prospect of inviting Peter Seldin, author of numerous books on teaching assessment at the University level, to campus.
-3-3 Transition application process underway
-3-year contract: faculty who have worked for the University for years on annual contracts see the potential for a longer term contract as a net benefit
-no space is available on campus for a child care facility even if an external entity might be able to run such a program
-cost of child care
-Adjunct Pay: Motion to raise adjunct pay
-Standing Committee on Faculty Development discussion
-role of a Chapel on a public University campus
-discussion of allowing restricted faculty to serve on the Senate
-Faculty Development Grants
-Sabbatical applications
-New paragraph in successful 2 and 4-year review notices
-New proposed penalty for unsatisfactory performance in scholarship
-Accelerated Committee Elections
-Electronic IDEA
-IDEA Conference Report
-the all faculty meeting is scheduled for 1 December
-concerns that the FRC (Faculty Review Committee) or the deans of the three colleges did not provide rationale when they differed from the DRC (Department Review Committee) report
-Senate discussed concerns that the fall reviews may be flawed because they did not follow administrative guidelines and expected process
-President Pollard discussed briefly the recent decision by President Trible to provide a bonus to all full-time faculty employed prior to June 30, 2009
-International Studies Advisory Committee is engaged with a thorough review to organize and categorize the study abroad options offered through CNU by its faculty
-Program Review Committee reviewing Interdisciplinary Studies, Fine Art and Art History, and Chemistry
-Expect a University survey in the early spring semester, probably in January
-some departments in Arts and Humanities that are not represented on the Senate continue to feel underrepresented
-The English department reported that it has completed its curricular review
-The film concentration will be eliminated as will the Journalism concentration
-The Senate discussed the revised statement on Academic Freedom and Responsibility
-University Handbook discussed
-Dossier Organization: Administrative Response
-The response made no mention of the electronic dossier which, now that the institution uses Digital Measures for annual reviews, should be part of every discussion we have on dossier construction
-it is now unclear who administers Digital Measures for the University and if there are support staff who might be able to manage the electronic dossier
-Some senators objected to any move towards an electronic dossier noting that Digital Measures seems unnecessarily cumbersome and unreliable
-in the administrative response, there was no place to include relevant service materials
-Others commented on the limitations placed on some more prolific faculty who might need additional space to include scholarly production than one binder would allow
-The SEC is committed to revisit the issue of dossier content and will draft a counterproposal expressing faculty concerns.
-The Senate also made the case that the administrative response seems to focus on only one kind of teaching evaluation material, the IDEA student surveys
-The Senate discussed the prospect of inviting Peter Seldin, author of numerous books on teaching assessment at the University level, to campus.
-3-3 Transition application process underway
-3-year contract: faculty who have worked for the University for years on annual contracts see the potential for a longer term contract as a net benefit
-no space is available on campus for a child care facility even if an external entity might be able to run such a program
-cost of child care
-Adjunct Pay: Motion to raise adjunct pay
-Standing Committee on Faculty Development discussion
-role of a Chapel on a public University campus
-discussion of allowing restricted faculty to serve on the Senate
-Faculty Development Grants
-Sabbatical applications
-New paragraph in successful 2 and 4-year review notices
-New proposed penalty for unsatisfactory performance in scholarship
-Accelerated Committee Elections
-Electronic IDEA
-IDEA Conference Report
-the all faculty meeting is scheduled for 1 December
Available online only.
Date
November 18, 2011
Call Number
4.3 B
Statement of Rights
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Original Format
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