Faculty Affairs Committee Meeting

May 23, 2007

 

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

 

Guest: Kirsten Christensen, Peter Ng’ang’a

 

Business:

1. The committee invited next year’s two new committee members, Kirsten Christensen and Peter Ng’ang’a to talk about the charge of the committee and to review this year’s work.  Those making up the 2007 – 08 committee chose a meeting session for next semester: Wednesdays from 9:15 to 11:00.  Anna will reserve the President’s Conference Room.  Ron agreed to serve on the Benefits Committee again, Steve on Budget Advisory, and Mary on Instructional Resources.  The committee provisionally elected Wendy as chair.

 

2.  Anna distributed a draft of the committee’s end-of-the-year report.

 

3.  The committee talked about the peer institution list.  We agreed that we need to let faculty know that we see this as a peer, not aspirational, list; we need to let them know that we’re interested in the group as a whole, overall, not in comparing PLU to individual institutions on the list.  Anna announced that the Provost’s Office has adopted this list for use this coming year.  The committee formally adopted the peer institution list to be used in the implementation plan.  We are waiting for data on tenure and promotion bumps, on cost of living, and on salaries.

 

4.  Steve reported back on the recent Budget Advisory Committee.  In talking about possible tuition increases for next year and beyond, the committee agreed that we need to know the tuition increases for our peer institutions.

 

5.  The committee worked on the implementation plan.  We talked about audience for and function of the document.  We changed the name to the Ongoing Implementation of the Philosophy of Compensation.  We agreed that the document must serve as an internal list for the committee of what we need to pay attention to.  We agreed that we need to build the structure now and that it will become part of FAC’s yearly work.

 

Meeting adjourned at 3:54 p.m.

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Rona Kaufman

FAC Secretary

 

Next meeting: May 24th from 4:00 – 5:00 in the Provost’s Conference Room.