MINUTES

FACULTY EVALUATION & COMPENSATION

REVIEW AD HOC COMMITTEE

December 1, 2006, 12:30 p.m. 236 Jenkins Hall

MEMBERS PRESENT: Chuck Bailey, Rick McCormick, Larry Schmitz, Loukia Dixon, Wendell Dobbs, Marty Laubach, James Burton, Larry Stickler, Christina Murphy, David Hatfield

MEMBERS ABSENT: Blaker Bolling, Tom Hankins

EX-OFFICIO, NON-VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT: Janet Dooley, Michael McGuffey, Sarah Denman

EX-OFFICIO, NON-VOTING MEMBERS ABSENT: none

The meeting was convened at 12:30 p.m. by James Burton, Chair.

1.                  APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

The minutes of the November 10, 2006 meeting were approved with edits. 

2.         ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Meeting dates and times (Spring Semester). The Chair enquired as to the best meeting times for the Spring 2007 semester for the committee members. It was agreed that Fridays were the best day and 11:00 was selected as the time (for the first meeting). The committee then agreed that the initial meeting of the Spring 2007 Semester would occur on Friday, January 19 at 11:00. The meeting would be held in 236 Jenkins Hall.

3.                  OLD BUSINESS:

The Chair requested clarification about the impact of the Board of Governors action regarding merit pay on the composition of the committee. Committee members discussed the Board of Governor’s recent revision of the faculty compensation system. There was concern that the Board’s action reinforced a general misconception that the Lewis College of Business had requested and had received an exemption from the compensation policy. There is no such exemption. The Board approved a revision in the way individual academic units may distribute salary funds based on the wishes of a 2/3 majority of eligible faculty members.

All academic unit salary allocations will continue to be calculated using a 51% merit and 49% equity formula.

Once salary allocations for academic units have been determined, a unit may, with 2/3 approval of their faculty, disperse the allocation among faculty using a merit portion greater than 51%. The merit percentage within individual units can be as much as 100%, but never less than 51%. [A copy of the Board of Governor’s policy will be attached to the committee’s minutes.]

Dr. Denman will send the West Virginia University salary policy to the Committee. 

4.                  NEW BUSINESS:

The committee continued the review of the current evaluation policy [SR-04-05-(12) 69 In “The Evaluation Process” section, the individual faculty member. A subcommittee of Drs. Hatfield (COLA), Laubach (COLA), and Burton (COEHS) presented the work of their subcommittee which included language that would be included in the policy to achieve the goal of connecting planning pages with appropriate resources. Committee members discussed the report of the subcommittee and agreed to give it further thought and consideration. 

A subcommittee of Wendy Moorhead, Dr. Rick McCormick. Michael McGuffey and Loukia Dixon will review the sections dealing with the market equity process, the merit process and system review of the current evaluation policy and give their report at the next meeting. 

The next meeting was set for Friday, January 19, 2006 at 11:00 p.m. in 236 Jenkins Hall.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.