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Minutes Draft with Appendices

Ohio University Faculty Senate Monday, November 5, 2018

Margaret M. Walter Hall, Room 235, 7:10pm Meeting Minutes DRAFT

In attendance

College of Arts and Sciences: G. Buckley, D. Clowe, H. Edwards, S. Gradin, M. Gurien, K. Hicks, P. Jung, N. Manring, J. McLaughlin, L. McMills, R. Muhammad, R. Palmer, N. Sandal, S. Wyatt College of Business: J. Andzulis (sub. for A. Pueschel), J. Hiler, D. RidpathCollege of Fine Arts: M. Franz, K. Geist, V. Marchenkov, H. Siebrits College of Health Sciences and Professions: R. Brannan, M. Clevidence, A. Sergeev, B. SindelarHeritage College of Osteopathic Medicine: B. Franz, J. Wolf Patton College of Education: L. Harrison, C. Hartman, S. Helfrich, C. Lowery Regional Campus – Chillicothe: A. White Regional Campus – Eastern: P. McMurray-Schwarz Regional Campus – Lancaster: S. DotyRegional Campus – Southern: Y. Shao-Lucas Regional Campus – Zanesville: S. House, J. Taylor Russ College of Engineering: J. Cotton, D. Schwerha Scripps College of Communication: B. Bates, A. Chadwick, B. Debatin Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs: D. Kauneckis Athens At Large: G. Michaud, D. Nickles, T. Pritchard Clinical: A. Healy

Excused: C. Crawford, B. Debatin, A. Rosado-Feger, J. TaylorAbsent: E. Stinaff, C. Stork, J. White

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Ohio University Faculty SenateAgenda for Monday, November 5, 2018

Room 235, Margaret M. Walter Hall, 7:10-9:00pm

I. M. Duane Nellis, President & Chaden Djalali, Executive VP & Provost

II. Faculty Compensation Task Force Report—John Day, Associate Provost for Academic Budget & Planning (See Appendix A)

III. Roll Call and Approval of the October 8, 2018 Minutes

IV. Chair’s Report—Joe McLaughlin

a. Updates & Announcementsb. Upcoming Senate Meeting: December 10, 2018, 7:10pm, Walter Hall 235

V. Educational Policy & Student Affairs Committee—Betty Sindelar

VI. Promotion & Tenure Committee—Sherrie Gradin

a. Resolution to Clarify Eligibility to Serve on Loss of Tenure Hearing Committees—Second Reading & Vote (See Appendix B)

VII. Finance & Facilities Committee—Susan Williams

VIII. Professional Relations Committee—Sarah Wyatt

IX. New Business

X. Adjournment

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I. M. Duane Nellis, President & Chaden Djalali, Executive VP & Provost

President Nellis provides updates and announcements on several issues:

1. He reminded everyone of the opportunity to nominate anyone for an honorary degree. The deadline to nominate someone is February 22, 2019.

2. The new VP for Communications and Marketing search will be launched very soon. Dean of the College of Business Hugh Sherman and Vice-President Gigi Secuban are co-chairs of the search committee. Late February or early March campus visits are expected.

3. RHE Task Force will be released in the one to two days. There will be an opportunity to comment.

4. The President expressed a desire to elevate our sustainability plan. Hubs of faculty leadership are being formed November 13 is the deadline for applying to serve one of the hubs (sustainability planning group centering on a particular theme).

5. Last year we started the training for sexual assault awareness and prevention. The old file (online training program) has been modified to make it more trackable and less cumbersome. 93% of faculty and staff have completed the training.

Provost Djalali provided updates on the five searches and noted that additional updates and details will be posted to the Provost’s website regularly: https://www.ohio.edu/provost

1) The search for the Dean of Libraries is under way and the interviews will take place this month (November).

2) The search for the Dean of the Russ College of Engineering is moving forward and interviews will take place in February and/or March.

3) The search for the Director Ohio University Press is under way and is being co-chaired by Joe McLaughlin and LJ Edmonds.

4) The search for the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences is finalizing the committee composition and will launch soon.

5) Group II representation will be present on all the search committees.6) The search for a Dean for Honors Tutorial College will follow the CAS

search; the Provost is in the process of selecting a search firm for this search.

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https://www.ohio.edu/provost


Questions, comments and feedback:

A senator raised concerns about another administrative position being reconfigured to a Vice-Presidential level given the potential cost.

President Nellis acknowledged the concern and said that the reconfiguration (VP title) would not increase the cost in terms of salary.

A senator asked if the number of faculty was likely to be reduced.

The President and Provost stated that there were no immediate plans for the reduction in the number of faculty.

A senator asked about enrollments and “head counts,” asking whether the strategy was to increase overall enrollments or not.

President Nellis responded that increasing enrollments was a factor and that John Day would be providing more details.

A senator asked, what could faculty do? Under RCM there was a false promise the impact of increasing enrollments and expanding or creating new programs to meet financial needs.

President Nellis acknowledged that faculty played a significant role in attracting and retaining students through new programs, advising and other practices to bring up enrollments.

II. Faculty Compensation Task Force Report—John Day, Associate Provost for Academic Budget & Planning

Day gave a Powerpoint presentation and facilitated a discussion on questions and issues arising from the task force’s findings. (See Appendix A)

Questions, comments and feedback:

A senator asked if regional campus faculty salaries were factored into the analysis.

Day responded that they were not but the idea moving forward would be to invest with similar percentages (increases) across all faculty.

Chair McLaughlin noted that one year of no raises wiped out three years of incremental raises.

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There was discussion about the reliability of the self-reported numbers in the compensation studies used by the task force.

Day made several points throughout the presentation, including issues With data and methodology. Day noted that moving forward more data might be needed from the Colleges. In terms of the National Peer Analysis (see slides with particular attention to the National Peer Analysis slide in Appendix A, page 17 of this file). Faculty are encouraged to send feedback on the task force’s findings presented here to John Day or Joe McLaughlin.

III. Roll Call and Approval of the October 8, 2018 Minutes

Motion to approve was made, seconded, and approved with one abstention and no nays.

IV. Chair’s Report—Joe McLaughlin

Updates & Announcements

With regards to the upcoming RHE report, Chair McLaughlin reported that its effect on the Faculty Handbook will have to be considered. Comments should be forwarded to the Chair.

Secondly, the call for faculty coordinators for the sustainability has gone out. If there are interested faculty, they should sign up by the November 13 deadline.

Upcoming Senate Meeting: December 10, 2018, 7:10pm, Walter Hall 235

Board of Trustee members Scholl and Coleman will visit that meeting. Senators are encouraged to forward questions for the Board members to the Chair of Faculty Senate, Joe McLaughlin

V. Educational Policy & Student Affairs Committee—Betty Sindelar

No report.

VI. Promotion & Tenure Committee—Sherrie Gradin

Resolution to Clarify Eligibility to Serve on Loss of Tenure Hearing Committees—Second Reading & Vote (See Appendix B)

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There were no questions or comments. A motion to approve was made, seconded, passed unanimously.

VII. Finance & Facilities Committee—Susan Williams

Senator Williams reported that a small raise pool is expected; health care benefits are expected to remain relatively unchanged.Senators are encouraged to send her comments regarding the “new” exceptions to the exceptions to the Bobcat Buy procedures.

VIII. Professional Relations Committee—Sarah Wyatt

No report

IX. New Business

No new business

X. Adjournment

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Appendix B

Resolution on Updating the Language in the Handbook Re: Section II.D.5.C on Loss of Tenure By Inserting the Word “Tenured”

Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Faculty Senate

Second Reading November 5th, 2018

Whereas the Faculty Handbook consistently notes the granting and denying of tenure as the responsibility of tenured faculty, e.g. Section II. E.3.a (members of departmental/division tenure and promotion committees) and Section II. F. 7 (members of formal hearing committee on denial of promotion and tenure); Be it resolved that the word “tenure” be inserted in Section II.D.5.C as illustrated below: Current Language II.D.5.C The formal hearing committee shall consist of all members of the Faculty Senate in the third year of their current Faculty Senate term, presided over by the chair of the Faculty Senate. Proposed Language II.D.5.C The formal hearing committee shall consist of all tenured members of the Faculty Senate in the third year of their current Faculty Senate term, presided over by the chair of the Faculty Senate.

For reference: Section II. E.3.a “Tenured faculty status is required for membership on departmental/school/division promotion and/or tenure committees” (FH 34). Section II. F. 7. “If the Standing Committee on Promotion and Tenure of the Faculty Senate has found that a formal proceeding is warranted on the evidence presented to it, the committee will so inform the chair of the Faculty Senate. In consultation with the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, the chair shall appoint five tenured faculty members, at rank or above, none of whom shall be from the grievant’s department, to constitute a hearing committee” (FH 42-41).

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