MSU FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES February 26, 2003 MEMBERS PRESENT: Gipp, Sherwood for Giroux, McDermott, Kommers, Schlotzhauer, Metz for Linker, Leech, Taylor, Howard, Jones, Nehrir, Conant, Weaver, Sunner for Amend, Levy, Bogar, Jelinksi, Pratt, Fisher, Lynes-Hayes, Prawdzienski, Kempcke. MEMBERS ABSENT: Young, Morrill, White, Anderson, Stewart, Chem Engr, Yoo, Lefcort, Locke, Lansverk, Bond, Idzerda, Lynch, Knight, Hoffman. OTHERS PRESENT: Bandyopadhyay, Fedock. The regularly-scheduled meeting was called to order by Chair Rich Howard at 4:10 PM. A quorum was present. The minutes of the February 19, 2003, meeting were approved as distributed. Chair's report - Rich Howard. - The Board of Regents will meet March 3 to consider two issues. - A job description for the Commissioner of Higher Education search will be prepared. - February 20, the regents and system-wide faculty leaders met with Elaine Hairston of Academic Search Consultants to discuss the characteristics desired in a new commissioner. - This discussion will be used as a basis for the job description. - System-wide transfer of courses will be discussed. - A committee chaired by Deputy Commissioner Joyce Scott has been working on transferability proposal, which will be presented. - Student Regent Hur will present a proposal to create a common course numbering system. It appears that the proposal would be detrimental to the four-year schools, although it may be workable in the two-year schools. - Amendments to Faculty Handbook Sections 618, 733, 734, and 463 (Post-Tenure Review) and Section 802 (Definitions for Formal Review of Faculty) have been forwarded to the President. - Issues that have arisen regarding two proposed amendments to the Faculty Handbook, Section 1312.00 (Conciliation and Grievance Complaints - Deadline for Filing) and Section 620.00 (Role, Scope, Criteria and Procedures) are being discussed with the President's Office. - As follow-up to discussion at last week's meeting regarding the academic calendar, the Chair sent a memo to Vice Provost Fedock requesting that the Calendar Committee be reconvened to look at one-day holidays. Can they can be eliminated from the academic schedule or minimized because of the affect they have on the instructional program? Faculty Affairs Committee report - Walter Metz. - The Faculty Affairs Committee recommends adding the following wording to Faculty Handbook Section 812.00 C (Responsibility of the Candidate to Submit Dossier) ", and all the letters conveying recommendations from the most recent formal review (if such a review has occurred within the past 7 years)." - During discussion, it was suggested wording be added to make it clear the letters are those from MSU. - The Faculty Affairs Committee will rewrite the addition and bring it back to the Council. Report from UPBAC - Rich Howard and Warren Jones. - A draft of the Instructional Program Evaluation Matrix, discussed previously by Faculty Council, was distributed. The scale will be standardized at 0-3, not 0-4, as printed. - It is anticipated some of the categories will be used for FY04 budget decisions, but appropriate information will not be gathered in all of them in time to be used. - Information that will be used for FY04 includes the Key Performance Indicators (efficiency); the Delaware study (productivity); and soft data such as program demand, state and national need, and strength and reputation. - UPBAC has received the budget amendments for all of the vice presidents. The total is $3 - 4 million. It is not known if there will be money to fund any of the amendments without reallocation. There does not appear to be a process in place at this time for reallocation or reduction of budgets, if that should become necessary. - UPBAC approved money for raises on promotion and tenure as a cost of doing business, so it will no longer be a budget amendment. - UPBAC next meets March 18. As there was no further business, the meeting adjourned at 4:45 PM. Joann Amend, Secretary Richard Howard, Chair