SOS Steering Committee Minutes
April 20, 2007
Present: Voting
members: William Bosron (DEAN), Ray Chin (PRESIDENT), John Watson (BIOL),
Stephanie Sen (Chem and Chem Biol), Mihran Tuceryan (CSCI), Kathy Licht
(EARTH), Ron Ji, substituting for Will Geller (MATH), Durgu Rao (PHYSICS), Silvia Bigatti (PSYC).
Non-Voting Ex-Officio Members: Andy Barth (PAST PRESIDENT), Steve
Randall (SECRETARY), Pam Crowell, (ASSOCIATE DEAN), Guests: Scott Orr, Regrets:
Andy Gavrin (ASSOCIATE DEAN)
9:06 President Chin
opened Steering Committee meeting.
Agenda was adopted
and the minutes of 03-23-07 were approved.
We met with a
representative of SOS staff (Scott Orr) regarding the participation of staff in
the administrative reviews. He mentioned that the staff are pleased that we
value their input and that he was asked to present their perspectives on the
review. There are three major concerns
of staff regarding the admin reviews.
1)
They desire
safeguards for anonymity.
2)
They suggest
that responses to the Associate Deans Administrative reviews all be grouped
together
3)
Concerns for anonymity
in departmental reviews lead to a suggestion that staff and NTTF be grouped
together. Suggested the issues and
responses by these two groups to be similar.
It was also suggested that the Deans office staff have input into
departmental chairs reviews.
The lecturers also
contributed to the discussion by way of a letter submitted by Bob Yost, which
reflected opinions from six departments (all except Math). The major issues
were that most were concerned about verbatim comments and numerical scores
being reported to the chairs. They are not concerned about Dean evaluations. They are also pleased to be involved in the
evaluations.
It was suggested
(Barth) that we should collect the data and this year analyze
it in two ways (grouped and non-grouped).
We will then have some basis to evaluate how to treat data in
future. It was agreed that we should do
this.
It was also decided,
in interest of time that the SAR would forward all raw data to the Dean. The SAR will however, create a report to be
submitted to the Dean and will meet with the Chairs to discuss the results.
How to maintain
continuity in the administrative reviews was discussed. It was thought that it might help to have
consistent support from the Deans office. Joe Thompson was very helpful this
year. Also support from the
past-president would be helpful (along with a SOS Steering Committee member).
The security level of
material to be contained on the SOS new WEB site was raised. Following discussion it was agreed that only
the minutes should have additional security (pass worded) so that only SOS
faculty have access. The
By-Laws, Tenure and promotion documents, etc. would all be
open. This will be communicated to
Brenda Bishop (secretaries note, done 4-30-07].
J Watson discussed
possible modifications to the By-laws (attached), which would make the mandate
for administrative reviews to include the acquisition of feedback from all
faculty (include both TTFs and NTTFs). After some discussion, it was decided to
bring this up for discussion at the Faculty Assembly and have a vote later in
summer or next fall.
An agenda was agreed
upon for the spring faculty assembly to include: By-Law changes discussion,
Discussion of the Deans search, and voting for next year’s secretary.
In new Business: D.
Rao discussed the dean search; Points raised during this discussion is that we
should not repeat mistakes of the past, we must as a school recognize the
importance and to take charge, faculty must be involved in the search,
departmental reps to the search committee should consolidate power, that it
must be made clear that adequate resources should accompany the position. We should discuss these issues in the
faculty assembly.
The dean forwarded a
note emphasizing that the school is underrepresented on the IU and IUPUI
faculty councils (attached). Other
announcements included the new hires of several lecturers and tenure track
faculty.
Meeting was adjourned at 10:55
Minutes approved: 5/18/07
Appendix I.
SECTION
Subsection 1. Membership
The faculty of the Purdue University School of Science, Indiana
University-Purdue University,
The VOTING FACULTY shall consist of members of the
The NONVOTING FACULTY shall consist of members of the and Lecturers,
Research Scientist, Associate Scientist, and Assistant Scientist and
members determined by the voting faculty to have faculty status. Emeritus
members of the
SECTION III.
ADMINISTRATION
Subsection 4. Evaluation of Administrations
The Dean's Administration shall be evaluated on behalf of the
faculty in prescribed academic years by the Subcommittee for Administrative
Review (SAR), which will consist of the Departmental Steering Committee
Representatives, the President of the Faculty, and the Secretary of the
Faculty. While the mechanism for this evaluation may vary, the mechanism must:
a) be
approved by the SAR,
b) be
based on input from the Voting Faculty,
c) evaluate
the Dean's Administration in the context of the tasks for which it is
responsible, and
d) be
able to produce results by July 1 at the end of the prescribed academic year.
Each Department's Administration will also be evaluated in
prescribed academic years by the SAR on behalf of the faculty of the respective
Departments. While the mechanism for this evaluation may vary, the mechanism
must:
a) be
approved by the SAR,
b) be
applied to all Departments,
c) be
based on input from the Voting Faculty of the respective
Departments,
d) evaluate
the Chair's Administration in the context of the tasks for which it is
responsible, and
e) be
able to produce results by July 1 at the end of the prescribed academic year.
Ray and Steve
Charles Bantz stressed
the importance of having good faculty serve on the IUPUI and IU faculty
councils. I would like for the Steering Committee to discuss tomorrow
methods to actively encourage faculty to serve on these committees from the
Bill
William F. Bosron, Ph.D.
Interim Dean,
Chancellor's Professor
and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
wbosron@iupui.edu
From: Banta, Trudy W.
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:44 PM
To: Bailey, Darrell L; Banta, Trudy W.; Bantz, Charles
R; Bosron, William F.; Brater, D. Craig; Broome, Marion E; Brown, James W;
Callison, Daniel J.; Cronin, Blaise; Eickmeier, Valerie A; Elmore, Garland C.;
Evenbeck, Scott E; Froehlich, Janice C.; Goldblatt, Lawrence I; Gonzalez,
Gerardo M.; Heller, William G; Irwin, Marilyn; Kellum Jr, Paul Nicholas; Lewis,
David W.; Lindsey, Greg H.; Lowther, Gerald Eugene; Martin, Robert E; McDaniel,
Craig; Mead, Susanah M; Merget, Astrid Elizabeth; Merrill, Henry S; Murtadha,
Khaula H.; Patchner, Michael; Paydar, Nasser H.; Peters, George D; Richards,
Gwyn; Schmenner, Roger W.; Sothmann, Mark S.; Sukhatme, Uday P; Tempel, Eugene
R; Warner, Amy Conrad; White, Robert W.; Whitney, Karen M.; Wilson, Sherree A;
Woods, Shelton; Yurtseven, H. Oner
Subject: UFC Membership
During the April
meeting of the Deans’ Council, someone asked how many representatives IUPUI has
on the University Faculty Council. That
number is 14, and tenure-track faculty may vote for nominees as well as offer
themselves for nomination. Listed below
are the current UFC members whose terms expire in 2007 and 2008.
6/07: Eyas Hattab
(MED)
6/07: Dolores
Hoyt (UL)
6/07: Giles Hoyt
(
6/07: Debomoy Lahiri
(MED)
6/07: Anna
McDaniel (NURS)
6/07: William
Schneider (
6/07: Vacancy
(Was from
6/08: Simon
Atkinson (MED)
6/08: James
Baldwin (UL)
6/08: Jacqueline
Blackwell (EDUC)
6/08: Mary Fisher
(NURS)
6/08: Richard
Meiss (MED)
6/08: Martin
Spechler (
6/08: Rosalie
Vermette (
Trudy W. Banta
Professor of Higher
Education
Senior Advisor to the
Chancellor for
Academic Planning and
Evaluation