Faculty Affairs Committee Meeting

September 6, 2006

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

Announcements:

1. Teri Phillips will send more information on the philosophy of compensation.

2. Steve contacted Sheri Tonn about serving on the Budget Advisory Committee and is waiting to hear about the first meeting, probably to be held in the third week of September.

3. FAC will not meet on October 4^th. Instead, we will meet on October 11^th, when we will be joined by Erin McKenna, Patricia Killen, and Sheri Tonn to talk about the philosophy of compensation.

4. Anna will contact the Provost’s office for the 2005 – 06 salary data (including division, department, rank, years in current rank, and salary). The data will be distributed by e-mail and not posted on Sakai.

Business:

1. The committee agreed to ask Sheri Tonn to address three issues at next week’s meeting: 1) the budget process, 2) which of Aslanian’s recommendations she will implement, and 3) a tuition increase.

1. The committee reviewed the compensation philosophy for both faculty and staff from PLU’s personnel manual. The committee agreed that a revised philosophy of compensation for faculty must be more specifically tied to PLU’s mission and include the goal meeting AAUP Level IIA salaries. A subcommittee consisting of Wendy, Anna, and Mary will write a first draft of a philosophy of compensation to work on at the next FAC meeting.

2. The committee reviewed last year’s FAC recommendations on Independent Studies (drafted on April 18, 2006). The committee decided to collapse recommendations ii and iii into a single recommendation, deciding that departments should determine the appropriateness of independent studies and as well how they are allocated in the workload. Anna will redraft the recommendations for the next meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 10:28 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Rona Kaufman

FAC Secretary

Next meeting: September 20^th from 9:15 – 10:30 in UC 214