Report from Executive Committee Meeting
Attending: Karr, Lawson, Williamson, Neuschatz, Gaede,
Reeves, Franz, Radonovich, Wren
Absent: Pakhomov, Hillman
Dr. Karr asked Dr. Franz to give a presentation to the Senate next week on the Master Plan that was presented at the Board Meeting.
The Executive Committee was asked to get any information to
Dr. Franz on the Mission Statement and Goals within the next couple of weeks.
Dr.
Radonovich reported there was no progress yet on the Outside Teaching
Policy. He will wait to hear from the
Senate Committee on this issue.
Dr.
Radonovich reported he emailed the Performance Indicators with the UAB 2008
Goals. He reported we are currently
developing our goals and they are due in a month. He reported there is still some work taking
place in the items in the research column.
He stated he wants to bring these to this group but we are on a tight
timeline.
Dr. Radonovich reported there was an ACHE meeting and we sought an extension for our Optical Science and Engineering Program and the Atmosphere Science Ph.D. Mike Malone was present and talked about directions for ACHE. He talked about resurrecting the faculty workload database and working on it. The Chief Academic Officers invited him to their meeting and discussed the difficulties and misinterpretations that occur for a research university when you work with faculty databases. They encouraged him to look at putting out average data like the Delaware Study and not individual faculty data. He is looking at forming a group to put together the format for doing the database.
Dr. Gaede reported her
Committee discussed the number of student in good standing but making no
progress. They also talked about the NC
grades. She distributed some information
on these. She will report at the Senate
Meeting next week. The Committee is
writing a bill to change the number of hours for classification or class
standing (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior).
Dr.
Wren reported the Committee is working on many issues. They discussed the summary reports in
evaluations and did some surveys related to this. There was not much support for summaries of
faculty evaluations. The consensus was
that it is hard to have a standard because there are some many differences in
what the faculty do and how they do it.
There was some support for showing averages within the department. There was also some support for knowing the
averages of raises in departments. There
would still be some confusion with this because there might be attempts to
bring people to market who were substantially below. The results for the administration were
split.
The
Committee is still working on the outside teaching policy. There were some negative feeling from the
Committee on this and they asked for more clarification on it before they take
further action.
There
was some discussion regarding the work on the “interrupted service” issue.
The
Committee will work on a bill regarding some of the University Standing
Committees and the membership and charge.
The Committee is still working on the Academic Misconduct bill and gathering and clarifying more information on it.
No Report.
Dr. Neuschatz reported the Committee is looking at moving the withdrawal date to the end of the semester. They are also looking at the time progress reports are due and move the date to the end of the eighth week. The Committee is waiting on information from Dr. Franz before proceeding with this.
The Committee looked at a request from Rosemary Robinson for the inclusion of a statement regarding disabilities and disability services on course syllabi. The Committee did not have any problem with including this on syllabi.
The Agenda for the Upcoming Faculty Senate Meeting was set.