SOS Steering Committee Minutes
February 16, 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), Michal Misiurewicz (MATH), John Hazer (for Silvia Bigatti PSYC). Non-Voting Ex-Officio Members: Andy
Barth (PAST PRESIDENT), Steve Randall (SECRETARY), Pam Crowell, Andy Gavrin,
(ASSOCIATE DEANS), Guests: None, Regrets:
Durgu Rao (PHYSICS),
Note: The SAR met
from 9-10am. The amended administrative review instruments were approved. Major
discussion ensued regarding who should be part of the Administrative review
process. This discussion continued into
Steering Committee meeting and the outcome of the discussions is summarized
below.
10:00 President Chin
opened Steering Committee meeting.
Agenda was adopted
and the minutes of 01-19-07 were approved with minor revision.
A meeting (to make
arrangements to begin search for a Dean of the SOS), with Vice Chancellor
Sukhatme and the Steering Committee and the Department Chairs is still in the process of being arranged. The Dean’s office is taking the lead in this
effort.
Chin reported that
the Open letter to the IU Board of Trustees and the New President of IU for the
IUPUI Faculty council to the IU President received an essentially (one
department reported no dissent) unanimous endorsement from the school. This
will be presented by Bart Ng at the next Trustee meeting that meets in
A discussion
regarding who (staff or non-tenure track faculty) in addition to tenure-track
faculty should be surveyed using the administrative review instruments for the
Chairs and Deans. The SOS Bylaws state
that the Administrative reviews are based upon the survey of voting faculty
(defined in the By-Laws as tenure-track faculty). Some discussants interpreted this to mean
that only voting faculty to participate, others interpreted this to mean that
inclusion of voting faculty to be the minimum.
After some discussion
the following was decided by consensus.
1)
Solicitation
to participate in the administrative reviews would be extended to all faculty
(voting and non-voting) and staff.
2)
Based upon the
SOS By-Laws a separate summary of responses would be constructed for the Voting
Faculty, Non-voting Faculty (research scientists and lecturers), and Staff.
3)
While the Dean
and the Chairs will receive verbatim responses of the voting and non-voting
faculty; the report of staff responses will be amalgamated across all
departments and be reported in a numerical fashion. Comments will be modified to be made
department neutral. The requirements for staff evaluations is
per their concerns for increased anonymity.
Deans announcements:
Dean Bosron spoke
about progress in Strategic Planning with intention to get all groups together soon to wrap
up the planning.
The Dean reported
that the CSCI review is done (self-study).
He has yet to meet with Trudy Banta and other university administrations
regarding this study. He also announced
that he intends to use the money saved from two senior faculty
to hire two new faculty to the CS department.
He reported that Dean
Sukhatme will try to provide some assistance in start up packages for new
faculty. He also reported that Dean
Sukhatme plans to attend a P&T Unit Committee meeting to discuss
expectations for promotion and tenure.
Meeting was adjourned at 10:55
Minutes approved: 2-16-07