Ohio Northern University Faculty
Minutes of the April 11, 2006 Meeting
I.
President Baker called the meeting to order at 4:00 pm.
II.
Invocation was offered by Prof. Paul Nutter.
III.
Minutes from March 14, 2006 were approved as submitted.
IV.
Unfinished Business: None.
V.
Questions for the President: Dr. Baker provided an explanation of the Personnel Committee’s
recommendation to make use of $200,000 in adjustments for Faculty salaries in 2006-2007. A study
has been completed by the Office of Institutional Research to analyze multivariate factors affecting the
level of salaries. A salary data base has been completed which includes information about each faculty
member reflecting salary factors such as: starting salary at ONU versus market salary level at that time,
promotion, parity, merit, etc. for the past 8 years. This data has been compared to mean values of
faculty salaries of our peer group of universities as well as our colleagues in our departments here at
ONU. Monies for this year will be a start of a multi-year process for addressing salary inadequacies.
Seventy-five percent of the money will be used this spring to address salary inadequacies for
individuals that are at or below the 80th percentile of the peer group mean. The remaining 25% will be
applied later in the summer to individuals that are at of below the 90th percentile of the peer group
mean. Dr. Baker indicated that Class V employee salaries are also being addressed in a similar process
over the next few years. A brief discussion was held regarding the availability of the analysis results to
individual faculty members and the privacy issues involved with personal financial information at an
institution like ONU.
VI.
University Council: Professor Indra Canagaratna presented the slate of nominees for Faculty at Large
positions and indicated that additional names could be added by contacting our college representatives.
The election will be conducted at the May faculty meeting.
VII.
Reports of Constitutional Committees:
a. Budget and Appropriations. No Report.
b. Academic Affairs. No Report.
c. Student Activities. No Report.
d. Personnel. No Report.
VIII.
Reports of Operational Committees.
a. Committee on Athletics. No Report.
b. Cultural and Special Events. Dr. Baker announced that Brigadoon will be presented soon at the
campus.
c. International Affairs. No Report.
d. Religious Affairs. Chaplain Vern LaSala reported that the committee met and discussed the
request from the Baldwin Wallace Faculty Senate regarding actions by the United Methodist
Church Judicial Council. The letter had been referred to the committee by the Chair of University
Council. A letter was sent to Mr. Berg at Baldwin Wallace indicating that the Committee was not
in agreement with making a statement to the Methodist Church as the Baldwin Wallace Faculty
Senate had done. Chaplain LaSala offered to share the letter from Baldwin Wallace and the reply
from the Committee with any interested faculty members.
e. Information Technology. Mr. Gulbis reported that the data base underlying Banner and Luminis
had crashed yesterday resulting in both systems being down for about one hour. The IT
department has not seen this type of “crash” before and is still investigating the cause.
IX.
Other Reports. None.
X.
New Business: None.
Ohio Northern University Faculty
XI.
Announcements:
a. Dr. Goldberg announced that May 6 will be Honors Day with Dr. Romanowski as the key-note
speaker the Convocation.
b. Dr. Maris announced that he had information available for students during advance registration for
the University of Havana – ONU Environmental Management Program. This is a 15 credit
program this fall with the opportunity for an additional 4 hour independent study.
c. Dr. Maris announced that Robert W. Ogle will present “The Economic Impact of Heritage
Tourism: A Cuban Case Study” on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 7 pm in the Dicke Forum.
d. Dr. Baker announced that the graduation speaker this year will be Mr. Jim Dicke II.
e. The next faculty meeting will be on May 9, 2006 at 4 pm.
XII.
The meeting adjourned at 4:33 pm.
Submitted by,
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Dr. Bruce W. Berdanier
Secretary