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July 10, 2006.

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Steering Committee Meeting

Present: Drs. Dana Bradziunas, Phong Le, Alan Wolfe, Michael Schneck, Scott Smith, John McNulty, Myles Sheehan, Nancy Muma

.Excused: Drs. John Godwin, Sean Cahill, Kim Dell’Angela, Ken Micetich

Minutes of the May meeting were accepted.

1. Elections.  Michael Schneck suggested that elections could be held on the portal as well as via e-mail. 134 votes were made this year. We have steadily increased on number of votes over the last three years.

2. Faculty Salary. Dr. Lee has finished the summary of basic science faculty salaries and this will be on the agenda at the next meeting. Faculty retention and morale is a part of this issue. The clinical faculty morale and animosity toward the administration is a problem. There are conflicts between community medicine salaries being very high and faculty salaries being low. Many faculty go out into the communities and do similar work to docs who are making much more money. Problems with EPIC were discussed. Faculty focus groups and surveys were performed for clinical faculty. The surveys were held by an outside group and were viewed as well done. This will be discussed with Dr. Lee at the next meeting. Faculty salaries at the other campuses were recently reviewed but the Medical Center faculty were excluded from the review. We discussed how leadership at the level of the department chairs is extremely important.

3. Library. Alan Wolfe is the chair of the Library Committee and is a long-standing member of the committee. The budget is not enough to cover critical needs. Cuts have been made repeatedly and there are no longer any reasonable places to cut. The faculty need to support the library to the administration as an important resource for the Medical Center. We, the faculty, need to make a reasoned argument why the budget needs to be higher. We could try to get the library “named” or some other mechanisms for donations to the library. The annual budget should be raised. The capitol campaign should include the library.

4. Search for President/CEO LUMC. Committee is made up of Board Members.

5. Strategic Planning Committee. We should invite members of the committee to the next senate steering meeting.

 

 

Minutes

Minutes Submitted by Nancy Muma.