MINUTES OF THE FACULTY EVALUATION AND COMPENSATION

AD HOC COMMITTEE

MEETING DATE:  OCTOBER 2, 2002

ORDER OF BUSINESS:

A round table discussion with members and visitors present giving a brief discussion of their academic background and their interest in the committee’s functions.

A round table format was used throughout the rest of the meeting.  The following items were suggested by both committee members and visitors.

• The use of Robert’s Rules of Order
• Openness of the committee
• Tape recording of the meetings for availability of members not present and other interested parties
• Published agenda of the meetings
• Sticking to the agenda
• Brevity, but management of time to allow all speakers to have sufficient speaking time
• Minutes of the meetings to be published
• The uses of perhaps modified Robert’s Rules of Order – a more relaxed form
• Faculty members not on the committee to be allowed to make comments based on the meeting’s agenda
• Development of a list of speakers by the chair prior to the meeting
• The setting of goals and sticking to the goals.

It was moved, seconded and passed by voice vote that a more relaxed version of Robert’s Rules of Order be used by the committee.

It was also suggested that several open sessions be held prior to the more specific committee sessions.

There was a roundtable discussion about Dr Arreolas’ book.  Comments varied and included:

·        The use of the existing annual report and salary compensation based on how many “points” one receives (achieving points yet to be defined)

·        Several liked the book, but felt perhaps it was too complex to serve as a model

This led to additional discussions centered around the book, but not necessarily in sync with the book.  These included:

·        The faculty compensation should be handled at the departmental level

·        It will be difficult for the committee to develop a universally fair and well liked system of compensation

·        The faculty to be paid at 95% of the base market value being a concern of most faculty

·        Examinations of policies from other institutions that are using Arreolas’ system

The chair asked members to send to him goals for the committee to achieve, prior to the next meeting

NEXT MEETING:  OCTOBER 16, 2002 @ 2:20 – 3:30 pm.

John A. Singley, Committee Secretary