Senate Document SD 96-4
(Amended & Approved, 11/11/1996)
INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE
MEMORANDUM
To: Fort Wayne Senate
From: Faculty Affairs Committee (M. H. Thuente, chair)
Subj: Report on Teaching Duties of Upper-level Academic
Administrators
Date: October 25, 1996
A resolution at the 9/9/96 Senate meeting directed the Faculty
Affairs Committee to prepare a report on the following resolution
by P. Iadicola: "That it be the policy of Indiana University-Purdue
University that all administrative personnel who hold academic
rank be expected, as a condition of their appointment, to be responsible
for the teaching of one class per year in the department in which
they have academic affiliation."
The Academic Officers Committee sent our committee the following
"AOC Position on Academic Administrators Teaching":
"The Academic Officers Committee (AOC) fully endorses the
notion that administrators who hold faculty rank should teach.
This support is demonstrated by the teaching record and teaching
plans of the current members of AOC. Further, we endorse the continued
hiring of administrators who believe that teaching is an important
function of all faculty members."
The Faculty Affairs Committee reviewed data about academic administrators'
teaching from Vice Chancellor English for Fall 1995-Spring 1997
and from M. Downs for Fall 1992 - Spring 1997. The attached table
"Faculty Administrative Teaching, Fall 1992-Spring 1997"
is a collation of the data from F. English and M. Downs with additional
information, primarily about independent study courses, from J.
Dahl, Institutional Research. The ten-semester record from fall
1992 through spring 1997 indicates that the eleven IPFW academic
administrators at the deans' level and above taught a total of
20 courses, two practicums, eleven directed readings courses,
and four "team taught" courses. It should be noted that
Dean Ludwin taught 10 of the 20 courses taught. The administrators
taught an average of 1.8 courses during the ten semesters.
The Faculty Affairs Committee noted significant agreement between
the Iadicola resolution and the AOC position statement. Recognizing
substantive arguments behind the Iadicola resolution and the AOC
response, and seeing this issue as an opportunity for cooperation
between the faculty and the administration, the Faculty Affairs
Committee prepared the attached resolution.
Senate Document SD 96-4
(Amended & Approved, 11/11/1996)
TO: Fort Wayne Senate
FROM: Faculty Affairs
Committee
M. H. Thuente, Chair
DATE: October
25, 1996
SUBJECT: IPFW Policy Statement
on Teaching Duties of Upper-level Academic Administrators
DISPOSITION: To the Presiding
Officer for Implementation
Whereas, Teaching is an important
function of all IPFW faculty members; and
Whereas, It is important that
upper-level administrators who hold faculty rank (deans and above) maintain
scholarly currency and familiarity with IPFW students and with the issues and
problems faced by faculty;
Resolved, Upper-level administrators,
present and future, who hold faculty rank should, as a condition of their
appointment, be responsible for teaching one regularly scheduled class per
year.
URL:http://www.ipfw.edu/senate/document/sd96-4.HTM
LAST MODIFIED: 23 NOV 1996
MAINTAINED BY: B. BLAUVELT