Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes 9.13.04

Members attending:	Kate Grieshaber, Diane Harney, Greg Johnson, Marilyn Newcomer-Culp, Tamara Williams, Dane Wu
Advisors attending:	Tony Evans

The minutes were review and revised. The meeting time for the September 20^th meeting was moved to 5 p.m. in accordance with member schedules.

The first order of business was to review the Fall Conference. The consensus was the conference was well received by participants and that the shorter concurrent sessions worked well. It was noted that no formal evaluation was done at the conference. It was decided that FAC should invite Laura Poulson to a meeting as soon as possible to discuss the 2005-06 conference. We agreed that the keynote speaker for next year’s conference should be invited by January 2005 and that there be clearly stated objectives for the conference.

Discussion of the Faculty Development Task Force was tabled to give them time to meet and organize their task.

Committee members discussed the description of FAC duties that appears in the Faculty Handbook. It was recommended that we contact the Governance Committee for clarification of items 2,3, and 6. We concluded that we need to be mindful of our charge this year and that we might decide to propose a change to the handbook pending input from Governance.

The balance of the meeting was spent discussing our priorities for this academic year. We focused on the following topics:

• To be proactive in developing and recommending salary policy (Fall);
• To initiate an examination of faculty load (to be explored by Diane and Marilyn);
• To start conversation on quality of life issues; and
• To have input with the Rank and Tenure Committee on faculty evaluation procedures.

As part of the ongoing discussion of academic restructuring, the co-chairs were asked to get a timeline on the proposal being made by the Provost.

Respectfully submitted,

Diane M. Harney