Title
4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes January 20, 2012
Subject(s)
Faculty
Governance
Description
Highlights:
Guest, Jett Johnson, Student Assembly President
-Jett Johnson, who is president of the Student Assembly visited the Senate and provided an oral report on its activities.
-President's Report: Provost approved and funded all FDGs; seven Sabbaticals awarded; concerns about the amended finals schedule from the fall semester (Hurricane Irene); Concern by Deans over the minutes from November regarding annual and tenure reviews; Virginia State Bill 104 which, if passed by the general assembly and approved by the governor would provide University Faculty state-wide with a 50% tuition reduction for dependent children.
-Arts and Humanities chairs: some concerns over the budget outlook for the coming academic year and were asked to prepare for departmental reductions
-Virginia has altered the way that it pays for equipment by eliminating the equipment trust
-concerns regarding the FRC in cases where department members were evaluated negatively by the FRC on matters of promotion without explanation; concern that the FRC lacked the expertise to critique discipline-specific professional development and scholarship; Some Senators supported the idea of having external letters become a standard feature of dossiers; concern about the lack of expertise in the external to the department member of the DRC who may not have sufficient knowledge of the discipline to assess scholarship; Senators from Luter pointed out that in Business, there is a point system that has been established to rate publications to address the issue of substance; concerns about the finality of decisions and lack of appeal procedures;On the reporting issue which was a feature of the fall review cycle Senators discussed several possible solutions
-University Assessment and Evaluation Committee training for using an electronic reporting system
-Undergraduate Admissions Committee report: discussion of the reorganization of the admissions process under new Dean of Admissions
-Music faculty were concerned about the electronic IDEA from the fall
-Discussion of Fall IDEA surveys
-Teaching Portfolio Development was discussed
-Digital Measures were discussed
-Dossier organization
-discussion of the spring experience with Follet and book ordering
-New Language for 2 and 4 year successful reviews
-Child care on-campus: programs that are most successful at other universities charge market rates which vary widely but can be quite expensive for full-day care/school at around $1000 per month; need to do an do an interest survey of faculty to determine the needs of the faculty but also the extent to which something like this would have active enrollment from faculty; there is no space in the current building plans for a daycare/school on campus
-faculty life survey in February
-proposal to create a new university standing committee on faculty development
-Changing the college representation in the Senate to a minimum of 5 departments
-The Senate handbook committee proposed a change to the description and responsibilities of the FRC
-The Senate then moved to consider the problem of the Student Handbook updates which then sometimes by default change the University Handbook thus opening a limited thought potent backdoor that appears to supersede regular faculty and Senate governance
-Elections in February
-IDEA Feedback for Administrators Survey Tool
-currently soliciting applications for the faculty teaching award from department chairs
-President Trible has put together a task force on the honor code and judicial process for the University
Guest, Jett Johnson, Student Assembly President
-Jett Johnson, who is president of the Student Assembly visited the Senate and provided an oral report on its activities.
-President's Report: Provost approved and funded all FDGs; seven Sabbaticals awarded; concerns about the amended finals schedule from the fall semester (Hurricane Irene); Concern by Deans over the minutes from November regarding annual and tenure reviews; Virginia State Bill 104 which, if passed by the general assembly and approved by the governor would provide University Faculty state-wide with a 50% tuition reduction for dependent children.
-Arts and Humanities chairs: some concerns over the budget outlook for the coming academic year and were asked to prepare for departmental reductions
-Virginia has altered the way that it pays for equipment by eliminating the equipment trust
-concerns regarding the FRC in cases where department members were evaluated negatively by the FRC on matters of promotion without explanation; concern that the FRC lacked the expertise to critique discipline-specific professional development and scholarship; Some Senators supported the idea of having external letters become a standard feature of dossiers; concern about the lack of expertise in the external to the department member of the DRC who may not have sufficient knowledge of the discipline to assess scholarship; Senators from Luter pointed out that in Business, there is a point system that has been established to rate publications to address the issue of substance; concerns about the finality of decisions and lack of appeal procedures;On the reporting issue which was a feature of the fall review cycle Senators discussed several possible solutions
-University Assessment and Evaluation Committee training for using an electronic reporting system
-Undergraduate Admissions Committee report: discussion of the reorganization of the admissions process under new Dean of Admissions
-Music faculty were concerned about the electronic IDEA from the fall
-Discussion of Fall IDEA surveys
-Teaching Portfolio Development was discussed
-Digital Measures were discussed
-Dossier organization
-discussion of the spring experience with Follet and book ordering
-New Language for 2 and 4 year successful reviews
-Child care on-campus: programs that are most successful at other universities charge market rates which vary widely but can be quite expensive for full-day care/school at around $1000 per month; need to do an do an interest survey of faculty to determine the needs of the faculty but also the extent to which something like this would have active enrollment from faculty; there is no space in the current building plans for a daycare/school on campus
-faculty life survey in February
-proposal to create a new university standing committee on faculty development
-Changing the college representation in the Senate to a minimum of 5 departments
-The Senate handbook committee proposed a change to the description and responsibilities of the FRC
-The Senate then moved to consider the problem of the Student Handbook updates which then sometimes by default change the University Handbook thus opening a limited thought potent backdoor that appears to supersede regular faculty and Senate governance
-Elections in February
-IDEA Feedback for Administrators Survey Tool
-currently soliciting applications for the faculty teaching award from department chairs
-President Trible has put together a task force on the honor code and judicial process for the University
Available online only.
Date
January 20, 2012
Call Number
4.3 B
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