Issues 2018-2019
Faculty Council Agenda
- Faculty Handbook Update (Faculty Affairs)
- Appeals, grievance issues
- Need changes to procedures in dismissal for cause
- FAS process and IDEA use (Academic Affairs)
- How to evaluate teaching quality? Dept./school-level initiatives?
- Re-submit request to Provost's Office for data on IDEA response rates & averages
- What are response rates to various components of FAS?
- Is there consistency across depts./schools in FAS usage?
- Credit for undergrad research collaborations (in FAS, annual reviews, workloads)
- NTT/TT hiring - Check latest stats (% classes taught by TT, NTT, Adjunct) with Provost
- How will unionization (SEIU) affect FC representation for CAS NTT faculty?
- Discuss NTT hiring, promotion and pay (school policies on NTT faculty promotions)
- Dashboard data available from Provost?
- Faculty Salaries
- Monitor raise pools in Jan. 2019 - how will budgets affect this raise?
- Input into Provost Search
- Faculty Involvement in Plan 2020 Implementation and next Strategic Plan
- Initial awards granted, what has been follow-up?
- Overload pay - no updates since 2004
- Proposal provided to Provost in Spring 2017. Still waiting for response.
- Final Exam schedule
- Effect of reducing to six days?
- IDEA evaluations sometimes open during Finals Week
- Young faculty mentoring and development (including loads, salaries, assessment, spouses)
- Host FC event for junior faculty? Coordinated with FCIP
- Predatory publishers/Open Access journals
- Faculty watchlists, threats to academic freedom
- Moves toward more online education - curriculum, loads, and evaluations
- Communications/FC representation with Rome, Beijing, and Vietnam faculty
- 2020 Sesquicentennial planning
- Evaluation of Deans and stability in those positions
Faculty Council Agenda
- Faculty Handbook Update (Faculty Affairs)
- Appeals, grievance issues
- Need changes to procedures in dismissal for cause
- FAS process and IDEA use (Academic Affairs)
- How to evaluate teaching quality? Dept./school-level initiatives?
- Re-submit request to Provost's Office for data on IDEA response rates & averages
- What are response rates to various components of FAS?
- Is there consistency across depts./schools in FAS usage?
- Credit for undergrad research collaborations (in FAS, annual reviews, workloads)
- NTT/TT hiring - Check latest stats (% classes taught by TT, NTT, Adjunct) with Provost
- How will unionization (SEIU) affect FC representation for CAS NTT faculty?
- Discuss NTT hiring, promotion and pay (school policies on NTT faculty promotions)
- Dashboard data available from Provost?
- Faculty Salaries
- Monitor raise pools in Jan. 2019 - how will budgets affect this raise?
- Input into Provost Search
- Faculty Involvement in Plan 2020 Implementation and next Strategic Plan
- Initial awards granted, what has been follow-up?
- Overload pay - no updates since 2004
- Proposal provided to Provost in Spring 2017. Still waiting for response.
- Final Exam schedule
- Effect of reducing to six days?
- IDEA evaluations sometimes open during Finals Week
- Young faculty mentoring and development (including loads, salaries, assessment, spouses)
- Host FC event for junior faculty? Coordinated with FCIP
- Predatory publishers/Open Access journals
- Faculty watchlists, threats to academic freedom
- Moves toward more online education - curriculum, loads, and evaluations
- Communications/FC representation with Rome, Beijing, and Vietnam faculty
- 2020 Sesquicentennial planning
- Evaluation of Deans and stability in those positions