WARFEL: We will call this first meeting of this academic year of the Faculty Council to order. We have a few new faces and I would like to give a special welcome to the new members of the Faculty Council this year.
AGENDA ITEM V STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
WARFEL: It actually consisted of three changes in the Constitution: (1) brought us into line with reality. We have recently held only one full faculty meeting a year, although the Constitution mandated two; (2) It changed the number of voting faculty required to be present to have a quorum for a faculty meeting of the whole from 50 to 100; and, (3) it added a section detailing how a referendum issue could be held.
AGENDA ITEM VI HEALTH CARE BENEFITS - EDWARD ROBBINS
BLAKE: Is anybody looking at that?
ROBBINS: One of the things I didn't report is what is being proposed and developed for the other campuses. One of the options expected to come online to the Bloomington campus is an HMO.
AGENDA ITEM VII QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PERIOD
The employee disappointed the Business Research Center management in several ways because of this person's behavior. The employee quit at that point and that meant the end of the relationship with the Business Research Center.
AGENDA ITEM VIII UNFINISHED BUSINESS
BLAKE: I sent out a notice before we left in the spring to all of the deans and I have received one response
As for the implementation of the decision, it should be implemented on all Indiana University campuses because it is a decision of the University's Faculty Council. WARFEL: One of the things we'll have to focus on is the strategies we can adopt at this time.
AGENDA ITEM IX NEW BUSINESS
Suppose we have a candidate for promotion who is excellent in research but barely adequate in teaching and service, he/she will be promoted because he/she has met the University criteria which are very common. Another candidate, who may be very good in all three categories or very good in two areas and may be adequate in one, will not be promoted because he/she does not meet the current University criteria, but in fact he/she may she is an all-around better teacher than the first candidate whose main strength is research.
AGENDA ITEM X ADJOURNMENT WARFEL: The meeting is adjourned
WARFEL: I am reporting that Chancellor Bepko has said that he will be available to talk more about what we talked about during the Q/A or to answer any other questions you have for him after today's meeting.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING
OCTOBER 7, 1993 LAW SCHOOL, ROOM 116
AGENDA ITEM I MEMORIAL RESOLUTION: MOHAMMED ISHAO, M.D., SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
AGENDA ITEM II APPROVAL OF MAY 6, 1993 MINUTES
AGENDA ITEM III CHANCELLOR'S REPORT - GERALD L. BEPKO
AGENDA ITEM IV PRESIDENT'S REPORT - RICHARD FREDLAND
COHEN: I could do it now or later
This concept of the balanced case has been discussed in many of the standing committees of the medical school. The motion before us is first of all about the question of whether or not we are in favor of the concept of a balanced case.
AGENDA ITEM VIII GENERAL EDUCATION REPORT - EDWARD ROBBINS
We also encourage you, if you prefer to use E-Mail or Voice Mail, to send us electronically or verbally by Voice Mail your comments and responses to the plan we have submitted. WARFEL: At the risk of going off the rails myself, your mention of the faculty forum reminded me that we have two faculty forums planned on TFFAA issues.
AGENDA ITEM IX QUESTION/ANSWER PERIOD
Plan to visit this forum and share your reactions to the Commission's work directly with us. The printing was completed late yesterday and the distribution process started today and I expect it will be finished today.
AGENDA ITEM X UNFINISHED BUSINESS
They are in campus mail and, depending on your mail reaching you, today, tomorrow, or certainly Monday at the latest.
AGENDA ITEM XI NEW BUSINESS WARFEL: Is there any new business?
WARFEL: I think the resolution further calls for consideration of not cutting existing trees. But, since the resolution asks to be taken into account, this seems appropriate to me, but we must understand that it is a consideration and not something within the competence of the Council to act.
AGENDA ITEM XII ADJOURNMENT If not, we are adjourned
PLATER: As Kathy has said, as long as we understand this to mean that it will be considered, that I would certainly support the resolution as well, but the Board of Trustees reserves all decisions about buildings and planning to itself and is not within the province of the Faculty Council to act.
FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING NOVEMBER 4, 1993
He, was at the Extension in Political Science,cH$:'etfte:aas Profe:'&$of Emeritus in 1988i' We will not read the ,full text of the resOlutl0h, but we will for a moment of ! Silence:.
AGEND4ITEM,U'~ APPROVAL OF MINUTES:, MAV 6, 1M3
REDLAND: I just roughly counted about59'p&Ople h:eretQ~av,
- Economy of time and effort. Currently many of the'dosSier$ are considered simultaneously by both of these committees
- All of the representatives on the Promotion Committee being elected by faculty
- The Promotion Committee coming with the Tenure'C'ommitteeunderthe Faculty Council bylaws
WARFEL: the "officio, of" the adtninistratiearff, "ChancellQrand t'JYo a PP9t nt.s" of the Chancellor and the 1'8 neads .didemit units. Some of the reasons behind promoting the idea of bringing these committees together to a campus promotion and tenure committee are as follows.On the other hand, the other parallel process is the administrative tree involving the department chair, the dean of the school, and the campus administration.
SIDHU: Kathy, I think we need to keep a record of the questions being asked and the concerns being raised at this point. The question is: who will exercise control? . combi,"oommlttq?The dean of the faculties has chaired both the tenure committee and the promotion committee. I would like to make a comment about the process itself. and the dean of the school.
The concern that comes up is the concern about the responsibilities outlined on page two. The fact of the matter is that we are not the captains we think we are. KARLSON: It's a bypass of the process..It is. are supposed to go to the Constitution and Byla'A's Committee for their input before taking any final vote.
FREDLAND
KECK: Is this only within the IU system or will people from other institutions also be able to take advantage of this?
R.' KECK: The last question I have is if the new graduation criteria within the school were to be included in the school bulletins, does the graduation criteria correspond to the time of acceptance of the dismissal. Ed Byrne's comments on the last sentence of the first paragraph Students must file a request to enforce the policy in the first or in the first, ~trle~t.r oJr~'!'.eC! . enrollment. IUPUI Faculty Council Meeting November Pege33. someone such as major advisers;, when students first come to list or sbrllehocJY in the Admissions Office, they should not be: 'advfaingst Studentsof tt'fis.
Also, there should be some kind of institutional trigger to get the US going instead of the student trying to somehow find out about it and take the initiative. ,.,Helological p~rsonlJ\It would be either 'someone in the ')\dmission office' who watches these transcripts~~as they come in, who has to ,evaluate them, or the first (!or that thestt. id~ntmeetsWith. Going back, the next change in paragraph #1 is in the text that bracketed "away from the IU system for five years or more" (and have not attended another university in the past five years.} instead of "in the interim.. All those who are in favor of this amendment say "Aye." All those who oppose? [something)" (amendment passed). WARFEL: We will take a silent vote on this, Let's go back to punch last sentence in para.t.
All those in favor of striking the last sentence in paragraph #1, please raise your hand, all those against, raise your hand. LA~GSAM: I think that the istnat FX idea is not addressed in this policy, so the movement regarding · FX would stand at a distance, so you. SCHREINER: In the preliminary paragraph, the introduction, I think I'm a little concerned about the last sentence, which has some biases to the extent that I think they're not "intrinsically valid."
AGENDA'ITEM IX • UNFINISHED BUSINESS
FICUItf Council meeting November prepared to do, it seems to me that is the luck. I notice that J'rimary Rumber a section that talks about students, fiGm tne d_oree programs ffbmthefU'"svstem. That WES' statement of mine because I saw that it said "The Academic Affairs and Student· Affairs Committees of the IUPUI Faculty Council recommends the Fresh Start Rule," yet in 11 it is "bean awavfr.om:the tU. :sy.tem... ArchiVeI CGnteMlng tt1e'AcademltAffairsComrttit,teEl ther, WN ••' ·Ienerftom:, Devid·.' BostWIck 8Ifting shaft.
GNAT:La~t v~arl appeared before;~Facu'ty CouncUat :whiCtt,tj.". this year to announce that we are beginning work on the second annual campaign".:8efor. Last year many individuals indicated that they would be willing to serve again in ~tututl",o' • •,.atkir1g thM'h'ItO:sirveon these smaller commitments. The Background Statement states, in the first sentence: .The Task Force on Faculty Appointments and Advancement has recommended that campus promotion and tenure committees be combined and that membership be limited to full rank holders.
KOLESKI: Since the Faculty Council's focus will be in this direction throughout the year, can you tell us, as chairman, as much as you possibly can about what the focus of the agenda is for the next meeting, so that we can go back and create that dialogue. For the December meeting, because we only have one hour and then we break and have the faculty meeting with the campus address, I think what we need to focus on is the promotion and tenure documents. KOLESKI: At the end of the meeting, you can say that this is what I see as the next points of discussion.
AGENDA ITEM XI - ADJOURNMENT
1994 LAW SCHOOL. ROOM 116
By mail is the latest edition of the IUPUI Supplement to the IU Academic Handbook. SIDHU: But. v palt were never members of the IUPUI library faculty?. MEISS: I think we are raising the resolution to the level of a statute in this debate.
LEAPMAN: The voice faculty in the School of Medicine, in university terms, covers all tenured positions. Everyone who is in favor of the amendment, says RAye. · Anyone who opposes the amendment says “Aye.” (vote by show of hands). I would like to welcome you to the last meeting of the Faculty Council of this academic year.
The second relates to the elimination of the $300 deductible level for the PCI plan.
