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Members present: George Denny, Fran Hagstrom, Bill McComas, Ellen Odell, Angie Smith Nix, Mike Wavering
Members absent: Barbara Hinton, Felicia Lincoln, Merry Moiseichik, Gary Ritter
Guests: Provost Bob Smith, Janet Penner-Williams, Marta Collier
Bob Smith mentioned that he met earlier in the week with the College's Executive Committee, and that during his time at the UA he had reappointed or appointed 21 deans. He then addressed some issues raised by the Council.
Provost Smith noted that in some universities the composition of search committees is prescribed, but here it is selected by the Chancellor and Provost with input from the faculty. A call went out earlier in the week for nominees for the search committee
Experience as Dean, Associate Dean, or Chair?
Administrative experience is valuable, so it could be a dean at a smaller university, or an associate dean at a peer institution, or a Chair or Director of a national program
Background in Education and/or Health Professions?
It is unusual to have Education and Health Professions together — we may find both but it is unlikely — the majority of colleges like ours are Education, so candidates from Health Professions are less likely, but possible.
Familiarity with Arkansas (the state and the university)
Experience with Arkansas is a plus, but doesn't preclude others
Professor at a top tier university
A plus, but not obligatory (e.g., good colleges)
Don't preclude regional, comprehensive
Other Characteristics
Scholar
Collegiality
Understanding of issues
Internal/External: Not biased against insiders
The university's ability to attract and hire strong candidates
The situation is better than before when Dean Greenwood was appointed.
The candidate pool was weak in 2000/2001, and we've advanced in several ways.
The university is more stable, with more endowments.
Process needs to be open, but we can invite people to come and give a seminar to see situation. Another approach is to conduct off-campus interviews before campus visits (e.g., at the Embassy Suites in Rogers).
Not an executive search at this level—tried at Honors College, but it didn't work.
It is rare to use an executive search at the dean's level.
Search Strategies
Provost's office allocated $25K to the college specific to the search.
Search committee will need to beat bushes.
It is a challenge to get people here - once we get them here it is an easier sell.
Other searches have had better results with off campus interviews, or to have candidates give a seminar.
The search is open, but we can target individuals and invite them to apply.
[Q: How do we identify good ones?] Use Google, online information.
Some candidates are ready for a change, or want a safer community or better climate.
[Q: ListServs?] There are some for deans/administrative—it is a good approach.
Administration's View of What They Want, Where They Want Us to Move?
Want a scholar who values high quality teaching & learning
Who values Undergraduate and Graduate education
Understand value of prestige, national stature
Values external constituencies—alumni, schools, health care
Astute, works well with people, communicator, advocate for COEHP
Represent disciplines' diversity
Timetable
Committee will form soon, and start contacting in Spring
Off-campus interviews Fall '08, hire early in '09
An overlap with Dean Greenwood's term would be good
Concluding Remarks
Want COEHP to be best possible — We have an opportunity with the old Washington Regional building that may affect the future of the Health Professions segment —separate college may come later — synergy with UAMS
Provost Smith will share a copy of the .pdf file about the UA that was prepared for the Honors College Dean search that we are welcome to use.
Fran Hagstrom reported that her original subcommittee Annual Evaluation of Non-classified Staff, Administrators completed their work and were reassigned to other committees.
Ellen Odell led the Council in discussing workload issues. Inequities noted were clinical or activity courses with contact hours three times the credit hours; supervision of interns; new courses vs. established courses; large sections vs. small sections. McComas suggested that all these could be addressed with a point system such as the one used at Southern Cal. Combining advising load with teaching load seems to be desirable, because they are combined in tenure and promotion materials and in budgeting.
The Council did not address budget issues or departmental concerns, so an additional Council meeting was scheduled for November 30, from 1:45-3:15 in GRAD 325
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