Math Department Minutes 3/8/16
March 8, 2016
The main items were the following:
1
Approval of the following computer competency requirement for grad students
Students should successfully complete one of Math 5480, Math 5650, Math
5670, Math 3670/5900
This requirement may be waived by the Grad Chair provided a student
has prior extensive computing experience.
Knowledge of a computer language such as MATLAB is required to complete the above requirement. Students needing a refresher are strongly encouraged to take a lower level course such as Math 2650.
2
The following voting procedures for the 2016
instructor hiring were adopted.
Motion 1: The math department faculty participate in the selection of the
candidates in the following way.
Faculty members review, on voluntary basis, the applications available
on mathjobs. Every faculty member can add a candidate to the mathjobs
January 7 Long List . The Search Committee will not be able to see who
added which candidate to the long list. Therefore, it is essential that the
faculty enter their comments on the candidates they support in the INST
(institution) field, to identify themselves as the ones who added the candidate
to the long list. The Search Committee will then narrow down the long list
to a medium list. If a candidate was added to a long list by two or more
faculty members and that fact is reflected by the comments in the INST field,
it is very likely that the candidate will be on the medium list.
Every faculty member can add candidates to a long list on mathjobs, but
will refrain from removing candidates from the long list. Only Search Committee members will be adding candidates to the medium list on mathjobs.
The Search Committee will mark the candidates on the medium list on
mathjobs soon after the March 31 committee meeting. The faculty will review
the applications on the medium list prior to the April 5 department meeting.
If a faculty wishes to add a candidate to the medium list, they must e-mail
the name of that candidate to the Search Committee chair by noon on April
4.
Motion 2: The department will meet to determine the short list (a ranked
list of candidates).
All voting members are expected to attend; voting will be done by secret
ballot during the meeting. In the case that someone who otherwise wishes to
participate in the process cannot attend, they can cast their Round 1 vote
by an e-mail to Emanuelita, at least one hour prior to the beginning of the
department meeting. E-mail votes submitted after this deadline will not be
counted.
Two-round vote.
In Round 1 of voting taken at the very beginning of the meeting each
voting member will cast a vote for the voters top 6 candidates. If a candidate
receives either 0 or 1 or 2 votes, then that candidates name is eliminated from
the list.
Following the Round 1 vote, the department will discuss the candidates
on this shortened medium list.
In Round 2, each voting member casts one vote using a 6/5/4/3/2/1 point
system; each voter must cast a ballot listing six candidates with 6 for highest
preference and 1 for lowest preference. Ballots on which this procedure is
not followed will not be counted. Only the voting members present at the
department meeting will be able to cast this vote.
The ballots will be used to produce a combined ranking of the candidates.
The candidates with the higher total number of points will have higher ranking.
In case n candidates receive the same number of points and are high
enough on the combined ranking list for this to influence the possibility of
their on campus interview, an additional vote will be cast to determine the
ranking of these n candidates. Only the voting members present at the
department meeting will be able to cast this vote. The voting department
members will be asked to cast a ballot using the n/(n-1)/.../1 point system,
with n for the highest preference and 1 for lowest preference. Ballots on
which this procedure is not followed will not be counted. The n candidates
will then be ranked according to the points they scored during this round;
the more points, the higher the ranking.? The top five to six candidates on
the combined ranking list will then be invited for an on campus interview.
In case an invitation is not accepted, the next candidate on the list will be
invited.