COEHP Faculty Council Minutes
10/01/08 GRAD 325
Present: Merry Moiseichik (Chair), Fran Hagstrom (Chair-Elect), John Pijanowski. (At-Large), Angie Smith-Nix (HPER), Laura Kent (CIED) Kit Kacirek (RHRC), Felicia Lincoln (CIED), William McComas (At-Large)
Absent: Gary Ritter (Ed Reform), Ellen Odell (NURS)
Administration Present: Absented themselves
Meeting Agenda for October 1, 2008, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
- Merry Moiseichik called the meeting to order and turned it over to Interim Provost Bob McMath.
- Interim Provost Bob McMath
- Dean's search - Dr. McMath asked for suggested search committee members. When asked about the composition of the committee, he stated that he would like a combination of people representative of COEHP, the university and community. This might include some external folks, one graduate and one undergraduate student, at least one person from every department in the college, and a chair who would be the current dean of another UA college. The Council had several other suggestions: individuals from various ranks including assistant and clinical professors, a native Arkansan who is steeped in state culture and familiar with state agencies, faculty teaching through distance education. Dr. McMath stated that he would take names in this meeting or by email and that these should be submitted as soon as possible since he will be forming the committee within the next week. The following names were submitted: Merry Moiseichik as chair of College Council, Les Carnine as an external, Sean Mulvenon. Bill McComas suggested that a short blurb about the position be forwarded to faculty so it could be forwarded to various professional organizations.
- Characteristics of a New Dean. The second part of the discussion concerned characteristics of the dean. The following list was generated:
- Successful record as a fiscal manager and fund raiser.
- Someone who has a vision of research for all departments.
- Entrepreneurial person.
- Interdisciplinary and global.
- Good communicator who can get people excited about things and knows the steps.
- Understands the premises associated with being a land grant university.
- Someone who "buys into" our platform and agenda.
- Collaborative person who doesn't come in with their own agenda.
- Someone with political savvy who can position us with the legislators.
- History of being a successful advocate.
- Someone coachable.
- Council Discussion. Additional comments to be forwarded to Dr. McMath regarding the search committee composition:
- Members need to be positive and energized about our college
- Members selected for the committee should have a record of being a team player, one who reaches for collaborative agreement
- Members selected from our college should be individuals who would not pull time and effort from the committee's progress.
- New Agenda Item
- The Council was asked to consider and inquire if there is widespread faculty concern about the Associate Dean's office/Boyer Center disposition of course substitutions, grade changes, etc. The issues brought forward included automatic substitutions and refusal of grade changes. It was stated that in the past and according to the guidelines established by the Board of Trustees, that such dispositions are the right and responsibility of the faculty person. When the faculty can no longer make such decisions, advising is setting policy rather than following faculty guidelines. The following request and recommendation was made:
- Request: Members of the Council are to ask their faculty if they perceive that the Boyer Center/Associate Dean's office is overstepping their bounds by
- asking if faculty have personally experienced an automatic course substitution or refusal of grade change;
- even if a faculty person has not experienced one or both of these, if it did occur would the faculty member perceive that such actions were an overstepping of bounds.
- Recommendation: If faculty does feel that it is their right and responsibility to make the dispositions stated above, the following procedure was suggested:
- Substitutions and grade changes are to go to the Course and Programs Committee as a point of interest rather than to the Associate Dean's office/Boyer Center.
- The faculty member actions should be placed on the consent agenda so there is a record.
- Felicia Lincoln asked for verification regarding her position on the Council. Fran indicated that her name was not in the current list of representatives. Felicia asked that this be checked as she thought she was serving a two-year term from CIED.
- Council members asked that the chair-elect put the beginning and ending time of meetings on the agenda. This would be 2:00-3:15. Promptness is encouraged in order to move the business of the council forward.
- Old business
- Personnel evaluation document planning. The following suggestions were made as next action steps:
- put the document without any associated points on the webpage
- ask faculty to add anything they do that is not in the document
- ask faculty to rank the tasks by effort: more/less; equal
While faculty input to the existing point document is being gathered, the Council will begin work on the Workload document.
- Student Achievement Committee - Associate Dean Hinton - cancelled
Minutes are respectively submitted by Fran Hagstrom, Chair-Elect
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