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February 6, 2006.

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Steering Committee Meeting

Present: Drs. Dana Bradziunas, Phong Le, Alan Wolfe, Kim Kenton, John McNulty, Nancy Muma

.Excused: Drs. John Godwin, Michael Schneck, Sean Cahill, Bill Cannon, Kim Dell’Angela, Ken Micetich.

 

Donna let us know that Dr. Barbato will no longer be meeting with the faculty senate steering committee. Instead, Dr. Lee will be meeting with us.

The new conventions for BSI and FIS have been updated and should be linked via the Faculty Senate website. Keeping the website updated is an issue that needs to be resolved. Donna Halinski sent out hard copies to the research intensive faculty but others  not have gotten it. All faculty should get a hard copy of the plan.

Faculty raises were discussed. Dr. Lee has not reviewed the faculty evaluations and it’s not clear that he will. Since Dr. Slogoff has stated that the FIS evaluation is not used to determine salary increases, it is not clear what the raises are based on. For clinicians, clinical revenue generation is more important than academic effort.

The reductions in NIH funding are going to have a major impact on research intensive faculty at a number of levels. CART and BSI are two places that need attention. To be poised for the time when the funding levels recover, we should prepare and have faculty in place who will be able to get grants. We will work on a plan for tenure and discuss it at the following meeting of the steering committee. At the next meeting with Dr. Lee, we will discuss the basis for salary increases and reforms for FIS. 

Faculty nearing retirement should have a mechanism to get information about possible options.  

 

Minutes

Minutes Submitted by Nancy Muma.