MINUTES

FACULTY EVALUATION & COMPENSATION

REVIEW AD HOC COMMITTEE

May 11, 2007 12:00 p. m.  426 Drinko Library

MEMBERS PRESENT: Chuck Bailey, Marty Laubach, Rick McCormick, Wendy Moorhead, Loukia Dixon, Wendell Dobbs,  Larry Stickler, Tom Hankins. David Hatfield, Donald Van Horn,

Larry Schmitz, 

MEMBERS ABSENT: Howard Gordon, Sharath Sasidharan

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

EX-OFFICIO, NON-VOTING MEMBERS ABSENT: Sarah Denman

The meeting was convened at 12:00 p.m.  by Larry Stickler, Acting Chair.

1.                  APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

The minutes of the April 13, 2007  meeting were approved as corrected. 

2.                  Announcements :

The Acting Chair explained the actions of the Faculty Senate regarding the three recommendations  approved and sent to the Senate by the Committee (SR-06-07-27,28,29), as well as the recommendation originating in the Senate Executive Committee dealing with OCR scores (SR-06-07-30). 

3.         OLD BUSINESS:

Chuck Bailey was elected Chairman of the Committee.  

Discussion of Faculty Values was postponed to the next meeting with a request that it be sent out again to all members prior to the next meeting. 

4.                  NEW BUSINESS:

A motion was made and seconded to approve the following recommendation:

            Distribute merit money to each college in proportion to the total salaries of tenured and tenure-track faculty. This would replace the current distribution based on headcount. 

Motion was defeated. 

A request was made to post the following items brought by the Market Equity Subcommittee on the Sharepoint site in order for some discussion to take place prior to the next meeting.  The items would then be taken up at the next meeting.

Further discussion of the recommendations of this subcommittee, as well as other issues they have brought forth, was postponed until the next committee meeting. 

• Should we consider a cap on any equity increase?

• This subcommittee discussed the difference between a faculty member with a non-terminal master’s degree and one with an appropriate terminal degree with regard to salary increases. Right now, after the initial hire, there would be no difference in salary increase. We could grandfather in current faculty or something like this. 

• This subcommittee discussed bringing merit into the equity process by applying the OCR  to equity as well as to merit.  There would still be a “safety net” but merit would be a factor in 100% of the salary distribution. 

As an item for the next meeting, it was requested that the Committee look at the MU Faculty Evaluation & Compensation Guidelines, Merit Process (p.7) and compare this with the BOG policy/interpretation from their minutes.   

The next meeting was set for Friday, June 15, 2007 at 12:00 in 426 Drinko

The meeting was adjourned at 1:45 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted:

Wendy Moorhead, Recording Secretary