CALL FOR ACTION

OCTOBER REPORT

TO: IPFW Senate

FROM: Committee Assessing the Value of Institutional Names on Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees

DATE: September 27, 2005

RE: Call for Action Progress Report

Decision to not have a chair. Margit volunteered to be the Recorder.

We reviewed some of our ideas from the May meeting and decided that we needed to be selective in what we try to accomplish considering time and cost. We reviewed our charge, “an assessment of the value of institutional names on undergraduate and graduate degrees” and decided that we needed to stick closely to studying perceptions of various constituencies in regard to the IU and PU name on degrees.

We will target current students, alumnae and faculty.

Ron suggested that we develop a questionnaire. Ken volunteered to draft the questionnaire based on suggestions we made for items to include. We will keep the questionnaire short and in electronic format to be emailed and returned on email. Ken will contact IT Services to find out about emailing students and faculty. He will send a draft of the questionnaire to committee members for comment in the next couple of weeks. We hope to do the survey in October.

Jim shared information he gathered about what graduate programs the campus has. We will try to select a good sample of graduate students when we send our questionnaire.

Members: K. Bordens, J. Burg, M. Codispoti, R. Doolin, R. Friedman, T. Swim

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TO: IPFW Senate

FROM: Committee Studying the Costs and Benefits of Independence

DATE: October 4, 2005

RE: Call for Action Progress Report

Brian Fife was elected chair of the Committee. Thus far, the Committee members have met with James Ferguson, Director of Human Resources, and Judith Violette, Director of the Library, to learn more about the allocation of University resources. More meetings with appropriate University personnel will ensue in October and November, in advance of the issuance of a report to the Fort Wayne Senate in early 2006.

Members: G. Bullion, B. Fife, G. Mourad, A. Sandstrom, D. Smith, J. Wenger

TO: IPFW Senate

FROM: Committee Examining the Financial Revenues and Expenditures at IPFW

DATE: October 6, 2005

RE: Call for Action Progress Report

The committee has met four times during the summer and fall. We have decided to emphasize and analyze the following issues:

The relationship between faculty workload and resource (salary/bonus) allocation.

The growth in student hours and accompanying S&E support.

The resource allocation between faculty and non-faculty and its relationship to enrollment growth.

Members: S. Amidon, G. Blumenshine, S. Davis, D. Erbach, A. Karim, A. Petrella, B. Thompson,

R. Tierney, K. Tolliver, D. Turnipseed

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TO: IPFW Senate

FROM: Role of IPFW Faculty in Governance

DATE: October 13, 2005

RE: Call for Action Progress Report

The Governance Committee met on the 5th of October 2005. This was the initial meeting of this group, with all but one member in attendance. After self introductions and a general discussion about the role of faculty in governance. The discussion then seemed to focus on:

1. a need for all members to review the Constitution of the Faculty of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and

2. a need for all members to visit and read the Bylaws of the Senate.

A discussion concerning the Promotion and Tenure process then ensued. Examples were presented and further discussion and information will be needed to complete this discussion.

I was decided by those present that this Committee will meet every other Wednesday at 11:00a for one hour. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 19 October.

Members: B. Franke, J. Grant, M. Hickey, J. Libii, S. Mau, C. Nix, J. Purse-Wiedenhoeft, N. Younis