Senate Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes

March 24, 2008

 

Present: C. Champion, C. Erickson, S. Hannah, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis

 

1.         Minutes of the March 17, 2008 meeting were approved.

 

2.         The Associate Faculty Teaching Award was voted on.

 

3.         The Pre‑disciplinary Letter policy was approved unanimously.

 

4.         Revisions based on earlier comments to proposals clarifying departmental P&T Procedures and P&T Criteria, SD 88‑13 and SD 94‑3 were both approved unanimously.

 

5.         A proposal to revise the IPFW Policy Statement and Report on Teaching Duties of Upper-Level Academic Administrators (Approved, 11/11/1996) document–SD 96‑4 was not approved.

 

Approved                   Disapprove

 

S. Hannah                  C. Champion

C. Erickson

C. Hill, Chair

K. McDonald

M. Nusbaumer

N. Younis

 

6.         The results of the Gender Equity Study were discussed. S. Hannah will check to see if they are posted on the web.

 

7.         General good and welfare

 

S. Hannah announced that she would issue a call for a person to fill faculty consultant position.  The consultant will be available to any one at IPFW for advice on constructing and conducting surveys, but will not be required to actually be involved in the collection of the data.

 

S. Hannah handed out a policy proposed by Purdue University on parental leave and a second one on amorous relationships.  Anyone who has ideas regarding the issue should send comments to her.

 

S. Hannah announced that a handbook on guidelines for hiring international faculty is forthcoming.

 

Submitted by Craig Hill

 

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Senate Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes

March 17, 2008

 

Present: C. Champion, C. Erickson, S. Hannah, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis

 

 

1.         Minutes of the February 18, 2008 meeting were approved by unanimous vote

 

2.         Comments were provided regarding the Psychology Department P&T procedures document revision

 

3.         IPFW Policy Statement and Report on Teaching Duties of Upper-Level Academic Administrators (Approved, 11/11/1996) document–SD 96‑4

 

N. Younis moved that this issue be rescheduled to the next meeting.  The motion was seconded by C. Erickson, and it was approved unanimously.

 

4.         Clarifying approval of departmental P&T Procedures and P&T Criteria, SD 88‑13 and SD 94‑3

 

Comments were provided regarding clarifying the P&T document approval process.  S. Hannah will revise the documents and the revisions will be considered at the next meeting.

 

5.         The next meeting is scheduled for March 24, 2008 at 12:30 p.m.

 

6.         Adjourn

 

Submitted by C. Hill

 

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Senate Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes

February 18, 2008

 

Present: C. Champion, C. Erickson, S. Hannah, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis

 

1.         The minutes of the February 4, 2008 meeting were approved unanimously

 

2.         A proposal for recommendations regarding faculty salary increments based on input from the faculty, per SD 06‑9, was submitted by M. Nusbaumer

 

The proposal was amended and approved by a 4‑2 vote:

 

Approved                   Disapprove

 

C. Champion             S. Hannah

C. Erickson                M. Nusbaumer

C. Hill, Chair

K. McDonald

N. Younis

 

 

3.         Proposal to establish minimal standards for disciplinary actions against faculty

 

Minor modifications were made to the proposal discussed at previous meetings.  The proposal was approved unanimously

 

4.         Teaching Excellence document – OAA 03‑2

 

S. Hannah indicated that the document had been placed on the VCAA website, Promotion and Tenure Resources www.ipfw.edu/vcaa/promotion/default.shtml

 

5.         The meeting was adjourned

 

Submitted by Craig Hill

 

 

 

Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes

February 4, 2008

 

 

Present: C. Champion, C. Erickson, S. Hannah, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis

 

1.  Approval of minutes of the January 4, 2008 meeting.

 

2.  Call for Associate Faculty Awards was approved with a date change.

 

3.  Clarification of the committee’s concerns regarding confidentiality issues in the P & T document from Engineering were discussed and clarified for the department.

 

4.  Recommendations were made concerning the P&T procedures and criteria document submitted by the Department of Professional Studies.

 

5.  Recommendations were made concerning the following documents submitted from the School of Public & Environmental Affairs:

a.  Third Year Review

b.  P&T Procedures

c.  P&T Standards

 

6.  Recommendations were made concerning the P&T procedures and criteria documents submitted from the Department of Communication

 

7.  Discussion began on salary increment recommendations due to the Senate by the March meeting.

8.  The next meeting was set for February 18, 2008 at noon.

 

 

Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes January 14, 2008

 

1.  Approval of the minutes of 12/10/2007

 

2.  Soliciting input from the faculty regarding salary recommendations, per SD 06-9.   FAC needs to have recommendations in to the Senate by the March meeting.  Over the next week or so, FAC will be drafting a statement and soliciting comments from committee members over email. 

 

3.  Proposal to establish minimum standards for disciplinary actions against faculty.  S. Hannah submitted a draft of a pre-disciplinary letter.  The committee discussed the letter and S. Hannah will revise and send it out to members for input.

 

4. Teaching Excellence Document.  The committee discussed changing the title of OAA 03-2 to reflect that it is a resource for faculty and not coming directly from the OAA.  The committee also recommended that the OAA set up a specific webpage with information about tenure, promotion, and reappointment (which would include, but not be limited to, the guidelines for research, teaching, and service, and a bibliography on how to put a case together)

 

5.  IPFW Policy Statement and Report on Teaching Duties of Upper-Level Academic Administrators.  We did not discuss.

 

6. S. Hannah noted that she will be out of town on Monday 1/28/08.

 

7.  The next meeting of FAC will be on February 4, 2008, at 2:30.

 

8.  Meeting adjourned.

 

 

Submitted by:  Chris Erickson

 

Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes for December 10, 2007

 

Present: C. Champion, C. Erickson, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis, S. Hannah

 

1. Approval of the minutes of 11/26/07

 

2. S. Hannah presented the best practice disciplinary guidelines in the Purdue Handbook. M. Nusbaumer submitted a revised draft of the Minimal Procedural Standards for Disciplinary Action Against Faculty for committee review. It was decided that there is a need to have Melissa McIntosh or other experts look at the document to determine if it conflicts or overlaps with other university policies/processes. S. Hannah will get with some individuals, Kim will talk with some chairs. The committee will discuss it further next meeting.

 

3. Statement on Civility: S. Hannah pointed out two small changes in the document: adding “military” (in addition to veteran status) and changing the word “acceptance” in the 2nd paragraph to “respect and civility.” C. Erickson also recommended deleting “This” in the following sentence. S. Hannah moved that Faculty Affairs recommend that the Senate endorse it. The motion passed unanimously.

 

4. The next two meetings have been scheduled for January 14 and January 28 at 2:30.

 

Submitted by: K. McDonald

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Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes for November 5, 2007

 

Present: C. Champion, C. Erickson, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis, S. Hannah

Also present: Erin Frew, Director of Assessment

 

1. Approval of the minutes of 10/22/07

 

2. The committee refined the customized questions for the HERI survey. Also discussed the administration process and agreed to begin on January 22 and end it on February 12th.  E. Frew will announce it to the faculty on January 14 and send a reminder at the end of the first week (Jan. 29). N. Younis and M. Nusbaumer will send a reminder at the end of week two (Feb. 5). Faculty Affairs also will need to explore how to disseminate the information once we receive the data.

 

3. The committee briefly discussed salary increment questions. A couple committee members indicated they plan to submit some to C. Hill.

 

4. Tentatively the next meeting is set for November 26 at 2:30.

 

Submitted by: K. McDonald

 

 

 

Minutes

Faculty Affairs Committee

October 22, 2007

 

 

Present: Chris Erickson, Craig Hill, Mike Nusbaumer, Nash Younis,  Kathleen O’Connell (VCAA Representative), Elaine Blakemore (Guest)

           

Minutes of September 24 meeting approved

 

Initial discussion of institutionally -created questions for HERI

 

Received a request from Kathleen O’Connell to comment on potential

                  changes to OAA Memorandum 03-2

 

Approved guidelines for Third Year Review of Faculty

 

      V.         Approved change to VCAA “Brown Document” regarding the preparation of                           

                   Promotion and Tenure Dossiers

 

       VI.       Next Meeting, November 5, at 2:30pm.

 

 

Senate Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes

September 24, 2007

 

Present:          C. Champion, C. Erickson, S. Hannah, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis

 

Others present:          E. Blakemore, E. Frew

 

1.         Approval of the minutes of the September 10, 2007 meeting

 

Minutes were amended, and then approved.

 

2.         HERI survey of faculty satisfaction

 

Erin Frew discussed the nature of the HERI survey, the type of questions in the main body of the survey, and the questions specific to IPFW in the previous survey.  The committee discussed the questions they would like to see included in the next survey.  M. Nusbaumer moved to employ the HERI survey again to conduct the faculty satisfaction assessment; K. McDonald seconded.  The committee unanimously approved the motion.

 

Committee members were asked to send suggestions for general topics to include in the section specific to IPFW to C. Hill by Oct. 1.  These will be sent to E. Frew to develop specific questions.  C. Erickson and K. McDonald volunteered to work with E. Frew to develop the questions.

 

3.         Revisions in Teaching Excellence document – OAA 03‑2

 

E. Blakemore will make suggested revisions in the document, and the document will be sent to committee members before the next meeting.

 

4.         "Brown Document" – Student Evaluations section –OAA 99‑2

 

E. Blakemore presented suggested revisions.  Committee members were requested to send comments to S. Hannah.  Further changes will be made to the document, and the revised version will be addressed at the next meeting.

 

5.         Proposed third year review recommendations

 

The possibility of requiring a third year review of all departments and programs was discussed.  E. Blakemore will draft proposed changes to SD 88‑13, which will be sent to committee members.  A resolution to approve the changes will be discussed and voted on at the next meeting.

 

6.         The next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 22 at 2:30 pm.

 

7.         The meeting adjourned at approximately 4 pm.

 

 

Secretary, Craig Hill

 

 

Faculty Affairs Committee

Amended Minutes for September 10, 2007

 

 

Present:  C. Champion, C. Erickson, C. Hill, K. McDonald, M. Nusbaumer, N. Younis, S. Hannah

 

1. C. Hill agreed to serve as FAC chair for 2007‑08.

 

2.  The committee discussed VCAA Hannah’s plans for the year, ("Issues for FAC, 2007‑08").  We prioritized the list of documents in the following order:

           

1.  "Brown Document" – Student Evaluations section –OAA 99‑2

            1.  Revisions in Teaching Excellence document – OAA 03‑2

            1.  Proposed mentoring 3rd year Review recommendations

            1.  HERI survey questions

            2.  Administrators Teaching document – SD 96‑4

            2.  Proposed external reviewer letter template

            3.  Summer offerings/compensation guidelines

            3.  Overload guidelines 

 

3.  M. Nusbaumer raised the issue of revising procedures for handling grievances.  The issue will be considered at a subsequent meeting

 

C. Erickson, secretary for this meeting