Faculty Policies Committee Minutes, February
17, 2003, 3 p.m.
Present: Michelle
Benedict, Barbara Coleman, Bill Dodd, Gordon Eisenman, Cliff Gardiner, Jim Garvey,
Andy Hauger (chair), Jeff Heck (secretary), Donna Hobbs, Bill Reese, Jana
Sandarg, Sabina Widner
Minutes of
Agenda items: Old Business
1. Faculty Recognition
Additional nominations were received
for outstanding faculty member.
2. Parking
Andy Hauger will request that Public
Safety implement a graduated system of parking fines to make more parking available
for faculty. Students are parking in faculty slots, and some are willing to pay
the small fine each time they are caught in order to continue parking
conveniently. A graduated system would increase the fine after multiple
offences.
3. Sabbaticals
Andy Hauger spoke with President
Bloodworth about sabbaticals for faculty. The president felt changes were
unlikely with the priorities of the current leadership in
4. Sexual Harassment Committee Policy
The FPC continued a paragraph-level
review of the proposed changes to the Sexual Harassment Committee policy. The
committee discussed the record-keeping process for informal and formal
complaints; discussed who sets the threshold for action on any complaint, the
complainant or committee members; and, discussed obstacles to resolution of complaints.
It was noted that students sometimes would not carry through with complaints
though there was a problem that needed addressing, but that committee members
should not be able to carry the issue further on their own as it would violate
student privacy. Anyone on campus may initially receive a complaint but that
person should redirect the complainant to the Sexual Harassment Committee. The
SHC will work to reword some sections based on the FPC recommendations and
submit a new version of the policy by March 3. The FPC will email a copy of the
proposed policy to faculty, then host a forum for
faculty discussion on March 10. Any further changes needed
will be included prior to the final University Council meeting on March
27.
5. Promotion and Tenure Recommendations
Bill Dodd distributed the results of
an informal survey of select Arts and Sciences chairs about requiring inclusion
of grade distribution data and/or comment about the data for each faculty
member as part of the promotion and tenure process. Reaction was strongly
negative.
Bill Reese will email suggestions
for rewording three text sections of promotion and tenure proposed policy
changes.
6. Cullum Series Changes
Jana Sandarg presented a draft
application for creation of the Cullum 2000 level class. The committee reviewed
both this document and a list of suggested changes to the Cullum Committee
charge in the faculty manual. Both were approved, but the latter needs to be
packaged differently for direct insertion into the Faculty Manual. Andy Hauger
will help with the reshaping if needed. Bill Dodd will verify the approval path
required for inclusion of the class in area E of the core. The application for
the new class will be forwarded to the curriculum committees for consideration.
Jana will bring a bibliography and syllabus for review at the next meeting.
Other Agenda Items
Discussion of the email policy was
carried over to the next meeting.
Adjourned
Next meeting: