Faculty Affairs Committee Meeting

April 30, 2007

Present: A. Leon-Guerrero, R. Kaufman, W. Shore, M. Ellard-Ivey, R. Byrnes, S. Starkovich

Business:

1. The committee talked about fall faculty conference. Wendy agreed to send out a call for proposals to chairs of standing committees with the Friday before commencement as the deadline. Once people from standing committees respond, the committee will send out a general call that is tailored to what has developed.

2. Wendy gave an update on the salary equity analysis. She looked at new data based on what Marie Wutzke sent. Wendy looked at the data in two ways: with all faculty included and with the business faculty removed. Wendy said that pulling the business faculty out changes the analysis but it strange ways: the gender inequity at the associate level goes away, but it’s still there at the full and assistant levels. The committee agreed to present the data and analysis to Patricia Killen at our next meeting. Wendy said that she would redo the handouts for Patricia with both sets of data. Anna said that she asked Patricia about the distribution of the $600,000.

3. The committee reviewed the peer institution data. We’re still waiting for the salary figures. We agreed that we also need to find out the total size of the faculty and the percentage of students who study abroad.

4. The committee talked about Steve and Ron’s upcoming meeting with the Board of Regents. Anna reminded them that Patricia framed the meeting as “continuing the conversation.” The committee agreed on the five main points to convey: 1) thank them for their support; 2) remind them of the purpose of the Philosophy of Compensation, which is to keep the conversation going year to year so that we’re not always starting over; and 3) remind them that we’re working on an implementation plan and that we’ve accelerated our meeting sessions with the hope of having most of it ironed out by May 23^rd; 4) talk about working on multi-year budgeting and borrowing the approach of the student-satisfaction survey; 5) emphasize the importance of faculty-administration collaboration.

5. The committee talked about getting ready for our session on May 23^rd. Steve agreed to draft a few lines for the implementation plan preamble. We agreed that we need data about promotion bumps. We need to ask the Provost’s Office to find out what our peer institutions do.

Meeting adjourned at 1:35 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Rona Kaufman

FAC Secretary

Possible next meeting: May 7^th from 12:30 – 1:30 in the President’s Conference Room.