Faculty Evaluation & Compensation Committee

Minutes

July 20, 2004

Members present: Janet Dooley, Elaine Baker, Michael Castellani, Corley Dennison, Kay Wildman, Larry Stickler, Sarah N. Denman, Michael Cornfeld, Donald Van Horn, Michael McGuffey

The committee discussed the packet of materials to be distributed and what should be included.  It was agreed that the planning sheet should list courses taught as well as include reassigned time.  There also needs to be a narrative page which describes faculty responsibilities more fully.  Materials for the evaluation packet should include the cover sheet, the planning sheet, composite role rating sheets and a list of roles and activities to choose from.

A discussion followed about equity vs. merit and whether departments could opt to apply their equity monies to 100% merit.  It was agreed that it would be an either/or option—either the 49-51 split would be observed, or it would all go to 100% merit if requests for exemptions were granted.

Possibilities for implementing the evaluation process were also explored.  Faculty members could compute their own composite ratings from a university-generated online form as long as the supervisor/chair also calculates or checks the numbers—there has to be a checks and balance of some sort in place.

A timeline for due dates needs to be accomplished at our next meeting so that they may be distributed by the middle of August.

Items raised but deferred to a future meeting include:

1)      Student ratings for team-taught classes

2)      Teacher of record for independent study classes

3)      How to handle ratings for classes of 1 or 2 to protect anonymity

4)      Process for distributing student rating information and who sees it

Next meeting:  Monday, July 26 at 1:00 p.m.

Kay Wildman, note-taker