UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN
La Crosse
November 12, 2015
To:
Linda Dickmeyer, Convener
Instructional Academic Staff Promotion Committee
From: Bradley Seebach, Chair
Faculty Senate
This memo is intended to serve as the initial charge letter to the Instructional Academic Staff Promotion
Committee for the 2015-2016 academic year. Please see the faculty standing committee page for
reference to the committee bylaws and previous charges and reports
(http://www.uwlax.edu/FacultySenate/FacultyCommittees/FacultyCommitteesIndex.htm).
Primary responsibilities of the chairperson include:
• promptly informing the Senate office (5-8018) the results of the election of officers and any
changes in committee membership.*
• organizing and conducting meetings.
• completing a year end report on the Instructional Academic Staff Promotion Committee
activities to be submitted to the Senate Office no later than May 31, 2016.
*The committee chairperson should carefully review Faculty Senate Bylaw II, “Faculty Standing
Committees” for information on committee attendance and the role of alternates.
Primary responsibilities of the secretary include:
• recording minutes of each meeting.
• promptly sending approved meeting minutes to Sibbie Weathers (sweathers@uwlax.edu) so
that the minutes can be posted on the faculty senate website.
In the event the committee chooses to rotate secretarial duties, please designate one person to be
responsible for e-mailing the meeting minutes to Sibbie Weathers.
We will continue to use the HR open meetings calendar for meeting announcements which will satisfy
the Open Meeting requirements. Committee chairs are responsible for including the Faculty Senate
address (senate@uwlax.edu) on meeting announcements. Committee secretaries are responsible for
sending minutes to both Sibbie and the senate email address above.
There are several specific charges for the IAS-PC this year. They are as follows.
1. making proposed by-law revisions for the inclusion of the IAS Liaison as a non-voting member
(to take effect in 2016-2017),
2. direction to work with the Instructional Academic Staff Committee (IAS) in a continuing effort to
improve the usefulness of HR records related to IAS members, and
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3. work with the IAS Committee to develop a simple form for all IAS annual reviews. This form
should include a place to upload IAS members’ position descriptions and list critical information
about years of service, title, and contract type. The form needs to be flexible enough to work for
different departmental bylaw requirements and the review of short-term, part-time and
continuing IAS members.
Please be aware of the following dates to guide the committee’s work:
• December 4, 2015 – Portfolio due in Academic Dean’s office
• January 8, 2016 – Dean recommendation due to IAS PC
• February 5, 2016 – IAS PC recommendations due to Provost
• February 26, 2016 – Provost issues decisions to all applicants
• July 1, 2016 – New title takes effect
Last year’s final report for this Committee includes a lengthy and well-written description of continuing
challenges to be addressed in the effective oversight of IAS promotion. I encourage you to review this
document at http://www.uwlax.edu/facultysenate/committees/IAS-CPCindex.htm for more
information, and would welcome further aid in identifying ways that the Faculty Senate may be of help
in improving the lot of IAS members in their careers and in the applicable promotion processes. Most
department chairs will have gone through the professorial ranks at UWL, and many have too little
understanding of the processes through which their IAS members are evaluated for promotion and
other advancement opportunities such as merit or market equity adjustments.
Finally, if the Senate Executive Committee or I can assist your committee in any way during the year,
please do not hesitate to ask.
saw
cc:
Instructional Academic Staff Promotion Committee Members