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November 12, 2004

Faculty Senate Meeting with Drs. Barbato and Slogoff

Present: Drs. Steve Slogoff, Dana Bradziunas, Pam Derstine, John Goodwin, Bill Cannon, Sam Cukierman, Kim Kenton, Phong Le, Nancy Muma, Michael Schneck, Kim Dell’Angela, and Donna Halinski

Excused: Drs. Tony Barbato, Sean Cahill, John McNulty

Minutes 

Minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

Research

Dr. Slogoff was asked about the Comprehensive Campaign and provided the following information. The Comprehensive Campaign includes raising money not only for buildings but also for endowments and research. The Lake Shore campus under the leadership of Father Garanzini, is now ready for a fund raising campaign. The goal at LUMC is tied to goal at LUC. The campaign will begin with a two-year silent campaign period to acquire large donors before going public. The silent period will continue until approximately 50% has been contributed. It will then continue for approximately 5 years. The planning stage will develop priorities and will be completed in January. A research building is one of the top priorities and the Medical Center leadership has been asked to contribute their suggestions for additional priorities.

Faculty Development Report

The Faculty Development Report was commissioned by The Office of Faculty Development and was recently disseminated to the faculty. Dr. Slogoff was asked about how he would use the results of the report. Dr. Slogoff’s reply: There was a huge need for faculty development that began by addressing the need for teaching development. Dr. Slogoff felt that teaching mentoring should be centralized but research mentoring should be through chairs and at the departmental level. The focus group is only from small percentage of total faculty. The total number of faculty in the Medical Center is134 tenure track faculty and 638 total faculty.

There was a discussion of the lack of interest in promotion from clinical faculty.

Dr. Slogoff stated that the focus group report contained many inaccuracies such as the lack of nurses to support research. One possible outcome in response to the report would be to increase communication. There is a wealth of information on the Portal System but it is difficult to access. Increasing the ease of searching within the SSOM portal system site would be useful and Dr. Slogoff will talk to Ron Price about this. The desire for mentoring for teaching came up in focus group and this will be addressed through the Development Office. A full faculty survey can also come out of the focus group report.

 

Minutes submitted by NAM