Faculty Council Agenda

• Faculty Handbook Update (Faculty Affairs)
  • Appeals, grievance issues
  • Need changes to procedures in dismissal for cause
• FAS process and IDEA use (Academic Affairs)
  • How to evaluate teaching quality? Dept./school-level initiatives?
  • Re-submit request to Provost's Office for data on IDEA response rates & averages
  • What are response rates to various components of FAS?
  • Is there consistency across depts./schools in FAS usage?
  • Credit for undergrad research collaborations (in FAS, annual reviews, workloads)
• NTT/TT hiring - Check latest stats (% classes taught by TT, NTT, Adjunct) with Provost
  • How will unionization (SEIU) affect FC representation for CAS NTT faculty?
  • Discuss NTT hiring, promotion and pay (school policies on NTT faculty promotions)
  • Dashboard data available from Provost?
• Faculty Salaries
  • Monitor raise pools in Jan. 2019 - how will budgets affect this raise?
• Input into Provost Search
• Faculty Involvement in Plan 2020 Implementation and next Strategic Plan
  • Initial awards granted, what has been follow-up?
• Overload pay - no updates since 2004
  • Proposal provided to Provost in Spring 2017. Still waiting for response.
• Final Exam schedule
  • Effect of reducing to six days?
  • IDEA evaluations sometimes open during Finals Week
• Young faculty mentoring and development (including loads, salaries, assessment, spouses)
  • Host FC event for junior faculty? Coordinated with FCIP
• Predatory publishers/Open Access journals
• Faculty watchlists, threats to academic freedom
• Moves toward more online education - curriculum, loads, and evaluations
• Communications/FC representation with Rome, Beijing, and Vietnam faculty
• 2020 Sesquicentennial planning
• Evaluation of Deans and stability in those positions