Faculty Affairs Committee

Minutes 10.11.04

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

The minutes of 9.20 and 10.4 were approved

Tamara Williams reported on the Budget Advisory Committee that she attended because of a scheduling conflict for Dane Wu, the FAC representative to this committee. In general, the financial state of the University appears to be improving as a result of increased enrollment and the successful campaign to increase the endowment. She raised the issue of changing the BAC meeting time so that Dane could attend.

Tony Evans reported on the Board of Regents meeting. He noted that the members of the Academic Affairs committee are interested in the issues, are asking good questions, and have good ideas.

FAC members reviewed the rough draft from FAC regarding the proposed committee to complete a comprehensive salary review. A more polished version will be presented at the 10.18 meeting.

We have not received a reply from the Provost regarding our memo on academic restructuring. He will be invited to attend a FAC meeting (perhaps 10.18).

We discussed how we would approach making informed recommendations for the distribution of the salary pool for 2005-2006. It was suggested that we develop a questionnaire to distribute to Deans asking what they see as the most significant issue (i.e. compression, equity, market premium) and the priority in their unit. Greg Johnson agreed to draft a brief questionnaire for the next meeting. Members of FAC will complete the questionnaire as interviews with the Deans. Specific assignments are:

Arts: Kate

Business: Diane

Education: Marilyn

Humanities: Tamara

Natural Sciences: Dane

Nursing: Greg

PE: Tony

Social Sciences: Tamara

Respectfully submitted,

Diane M. Harney