AAUP@KSU
Chapter Meeting
Minutes
1. Chapter Pres. T. Keene called meeting to
order and called for introductions.We forgot to do a
sign-up sheet. Those in attendance
included, but were not necessarily limited to: Scott Reese, Jane McKenzie,
2. Membership (L. Lands): 60 campus members now,
most paid nationally (but see 3).
3. Ca. $480.00 in chapter treasury (T. Hedeen), but only four of those have paid local dues ($10)
for 07-08. All others, please send your
check, made out to “AAUP@KSU,” to Dr. Tim Hedeen,
Treasurer,
4. Background checks (T. Keene) : Mandated by the Board of Regents: these will
now only be on new hires and on individuals promoted to “positions of trust,” that
is, those selected for high administrative positions or given control of “kids,
keys or cash.”
5. College and Departmental Faculty Councils
update: Many departments have
done this, others are in progress. Pertinent bylaws will be posted on the AAUP
website to demonstrate “best practices” and allow comparisons.
6. Salary Compression/Inequity: Transparency needs to be promoted across colleges. (It was suggested that departments/colleges
come up with some formula [this would have to one even more complex than the
illustrative models for workloads] for salary increments such as between an
assistant, associate, and a full professor in a given department to make such
cross-departmental and cross-college comparison viable.) The faculty has been advised (Pres. Papp)
that there is money for faculty, which is now with the deans, but the faculty in some colleges
has no idea what is happening with it.
This will be a good matter for the DFCs and
CFCs to explore—good information would enable us to make judicious
recommendations. L.Lands to collect background information.
7. T&P Guidelines and Section III of Faculty
Handbook (C. Ziegler, S. Rouse): We need to
emphasis, again, the primacy of the departmental guidelines for decisions on
tenure and promotion (but stay away from individual cases). There needs to be clarification of the
quality, level, and significance of service—“national” is not necessarily a
value, especially for those in Teacher Education and those who work in
state-certified arenas and in local government ones, just for examples.
8. Administrative 360-review (M. Burke, L.
Lands): A taskforce is at work, but
apparently has not reached even 90 degrees yet.
9. Parking:
Draft recommendations to be sent to the Parking Committee (here).
10. Emeritus Professor: Rank and privileges—bring before Faculty
Senate in Spring.
11. Other matters arising: CHE Almanac is out with ample data on matters
such as faculty compensation, numbers of faculty/students, etc. ad
infinitum.
Respectfully
submitted,
Ulf Zimmermann,
Secretary