Deans Council Minutes

August 21, 2001

NOTE: At times, issues of confidentiality may require that some items discussed in meetings be excluded from these minutes.

Present: Bill Barnes, Dick Aynsley, Joel Fowler, Alan Gabrielli, Mike Murphy, Sandy Pfeiffer, Dawn Ramsey, Judy Waits

Research and Faculty Development for Program Heads

Pfeiffer relayed the president’s belief that any new P&P should indicate that program heads will have the same expectation in academic achievement/scholarship as other faculty. Accordingly, their teaching load should be low enough to permit time for the program head service. This point notwithstanding, the already agreed-upon arrangement for the current year is that PHs will have reduced expectations in academic achievement because of their higher expectations in service.

P&Ps for Hiring Teaching Faculty and Deans

Pfeiffer will make further changes in the two drafts based on discussion at the meeting. Deans should send Pfeiffer additional suggestions by the end of the week.

Student Appeals

All official grievances and appeals by students should be in writing at every level—starting with the instructor. Pfeiffer will send faculty an email concerning the process.

Systems Proposal

Aynsley will send the M.S. in Systems Engineering proposal to Pfeiffer by the end of September. Aynsley is also working on the MBA and QA proposals.

P&P on Evaluation of Faculty

Pfeiffer will make further changes in the draft of the P&P based on discussion at the meeting. Deans should send Pfeiffer additional suggestions by the end of the week.

Job Descriptions

Pfeiffer distributed drafts of job descriptions for school deans, program heads, and the EU dean. Deans are to email suggestions to Pfeiffer by the end of the week

Goals

Deans are to schedule individual meetings with faculty to discuss individual goals. Also, deans are to be assembling their own unit-wide goals for future individual meetings with Pfeiffer.

Faculty Consulting

The group agreed that consulting must be carefully evaluated concerning the degree to which it does or does not relate to professional development. More discussion will follow.