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July 15, 2005

Faculty Senate Meeting with Drs. Barbato and Slogoff

Present: Drs. Anthony Barbato, Lothar Blatter, Dana Bradziunas, Bill Cannon, Kim Dell’Angela, Kim Kenton, Donna Halinski, Michael Schneck, Stephen Slogoff, Nancy Muma

Excused: Drs. Sam Cukierman, John Godwin, Sean Cahill, Phong Le, John McNulty

Clinician Manpower

Dr. Barbato was asked about the clinician manpower survey. Dr. Barbato responded that LUPF has made a concerted effort to verify how clinical faculty spend their time and to develop a common set of expectations for clinicians should spend their time. This entails setting bench marks for tasks and expectations for full time clinical faculty and trying to determine the appropriate amount of work expected and matching department size with workload. Growth of targeted programs could then be targeted with appropriate size increases in faculty. LUPF will not directly be involved in hiring but will play a role in coordinating recruitment activities between departments especially in programs that cross departments. Counting RVU’s is not the purpose of the manpower committee. The purpose is for evaluation of manpower in clinical care by LUPF. Creating realistic and clear expectations is important and will be accomplished by the committee.

 Teaching Conventions and BSI

Dr. Slogoff stated that new teaching conventions are being developed so that there will not be apparent conflicts with NIH time and effort reporting. Contact hours will not be changed only the preparation time for teaching.    

Leishner Institute

Fellows have been chosen and will be announced soon.

 Faculty Senate Elections

Faculty Senate elections are underway and will end July 19. Part-time faculty are eligible to vote and are represented by the Faculty Senate. 

Part-time faculty benefits

Dr. Barbato was asked about fringe benefits packages for part-time faculty and replied to the inquiry that part-time faculty will be treated the similarly (there are currently some differences in benefit packages among the part-time faculty) and part-time faculty are eligible to purchase benefits such as healthcare. Full-time faculty benefits are also being reviewed so that all faculty are treated equally and fairly.

Faculty Senate Meeting Plans

We discussed an open forum for discussion of the faculty handbook which could possibly occur immediately prior to next LUPF meeting. Dr. Barbato thought it was a marvelous idea to allow people to preview possible changes. Contentious issues could be presented during this meeting.

A Faculty Forum with Dr. Sheehan will be scheduled for the fall. A combined annual meeting with a faculty senate meeting is also planned for the fall.

Deans Search

Dr. Barbato stated that by the end of July all of the viable candidates will have been interviewed and second round will start (for second visits) to compose a short list. The second round will be completed in September. Five internal and 7 external candidates were brought in for the first round of interviews. Only 1 woman applied.  Dr. Barbato has declined to meet with faculty individually to discuss the dean candidates. E-mails are welcome to either the committee or Dr. Barbato. Any issue concerning the process of the search can be discussed with Dr. Barbato. Dr. Luchette is the chair and is the only person speaking for the search committee.

 

Minutes submitted by Nancy Muma