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Faculty Council Minutes 
2005-2006

Minutes of the Faculty Council Meeting, September 30, 2005

Present: Dave Baggett, Joan Coffin, James Dolhon, Howard Fedrick, Claire Gilmore, Marc Marchese, Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Fred Sauls (Chair), Trent Snider

Guest: Nick Holodick

Meeting convened at 2 p.m.

Chairman’s Report: Tuition exchange policy is progressing. The tweaked version of the policy will soon be distributed. Dr. Sauls will be attending a Board of Directors meeting 10/7.

Committee Reports:

            A&P: The committee is halfway through reviewing the policy for assessing program directors and department chairs.  Definition / distinction between “department” and “program” remains pending.

            C&T: They are currently going through about fifty CORE programs in “competition” schools. They will share their findings at the October 28 faculty meeting and the division meetings.

            Ad hoc scholarship: Charles Brooks and Jayne Klenner-Moore met with Frank Pasquini to discuss this new initiative for a faculty scholarship. Administration was supportive. The next step is to form a core group of faculty committed to this project and to generate a letter to faculty eliciting their participation.

Senior Faculty Development:

            A proposal to change tenure quotas to 70% across the board is about to be presented by Drs. Grimes and Holodick to the A&P committee of the Board of Directors (BOD), which has promised to push the initiative through to the full BOD. The BOD has expressed the expectations that if they implement this the pre-tenure evaluations will be done very carefully and consistently, plus that a more robust senior faculty development and review (SFDR) be put into place. The BOD thinks the SFDR should have an evaluative component, not just be about goal-setting: not as a punitive measure, but as a way to ensure that service, scholarship, and teaching continue to be monitored subsequent to tenure and promotion. The BOD wishes to ensure that all faculty continue to be evaluated as stipulated in the Faculty Handbook. Dr. Holodick expressed the hope that this initiative be largely faculty-driven, more bottom-up than a top-down imposition.  Council agreed that this was a sound goal.

            Concerns raised included the potential multiplication of paperwork and the need to separate development and evaluation. The concern was also expressed whether the consistent application of an evaluative component into SFDR marks a decided shift in the policy from support to evaluation, though some thought that evaluation was always present and intended by old policies about “formative reviews.” The evaluative component also raised practical questions of implementation like what consequences might result from persistent noncompliance. Especially if the policy is to have teeth, it was seen as crucial by Council that the policy be primarily faculty-driven, with which Dr. Holodick thinks the BOD will have no quarrel. Council will now attempt to revise the wording of the procedure for SFDR to articulate a bit more carefully its evaluative component.

Meeting ended at 3:15 

Respectfully submitted, Dave Baggett

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