CFR FACULTY MEETING MINUTES
03 May, 2005
PRESENT : Agee, Allan, Bradley, Briggs, Brown, Doty, Edmonds, Ford, Greulich, Gustafson, Halpern, Harrison,
Hinckley, Hodgson, Lippke, Manuwal, Marzluff, McKean, Paun, Raedeke, Reichard, Schreuder, Sprugel, Vogt (D),
Vogt (K), West, Wott
EXCUSED : Bolton, Schiess, Ewing, Franklin , Hinckley , Turnblom
ABSENT : Brubaker, Eastin, Fridley , Gara, Johnson, Lee, Mabberly, Northey, Perez-Garcia, Strand , Wolf
ESRM 415
Sarah Reichard briefly reviewed proposed course ESRM 415. Sarah stated that she has taught the course several times with good success as ESRM 490. She expects approximately 25 students if the class is offered on a
bi-annual basis. Frank Greulich made a MOTION seconded by Rob Harrison to approve the course as offered.
VOTE: For: 27 Oppose: 1 Abstain: 0 MOTION APPROVED.
Merit procedures
• MERIT- Rob Harrison presented an example of how High Merit, Merit and No Merit might be assigned to
faculty. He noted that the committee is a recommendation to the Chair and the Dean. The scale that Rob
presented would allocate the top 10% as High Merit, the middle 85% as Merit. Low merit will be awarded for
faculty with sustained underachievement, being in the lower 5% overall, and not above 25% in any assessment
category. Gerard Schroeder made a MOTION, seconded by Sally Brown , to accept the suggested standards for
merit rankings.
VOTE: For: 28 Oppose: 0 Abstain: 0 MOTION APPROVED
• WEIGHTINGS - Rob briefly reviewed the weighting system, citing Doug Sprugel’s explanation of the current
weighting system. Doug argued that weighting works against faculty whose activities are evenly balance between teaching, research and service. Rob stated that if weighting was removed from the system, the percentages of teaching or research, or service activities will only used for reporting purposes and not included in the
final rating. Doug Sprugel made a MOTION, seconded by David Briggs, to discontinue the existing weighting
system, and use a combined total (teaching, research and service) for all faculty.
VOTE: For 27 Oppose: 0 Abstain: 1 MOTION APPROVED
• FUNDING: The funding has historically been divided according to source – individual effort or programmatic
funding. Frank Greulich suggested that the Chair and the Dean make recommendations on a fair methodology
for qualifying exceptional funding. Sally Brown made a MOTION to create a column for special gifts and combine the totals of all sources of funds and to charge the committee with a mandate to develop a mechanism
for measuring and recognizing special gifts.
• VOTE: For: 16 Oppose: 11 Abstain: 1 MOTION APPROVED
• PUBLICATIONS: There will be no changes to the methodology used in valuating publication numbers.
• GRADUATE EDUCATION: Faculty participation in student committees was presented in chart format broken
down by student level (Chairmanship of finished student committee, Chair of Student Committee, Committee
membership, and Total Grad ). Sharon Doty made a motion, seconded by David Briggs, to accept the changes
recommended in blue – inclusion of post-docs and visiting faculty in this category.
VOTE: For: 3 Opposed: 19 Abstain 6 MOTION FAILED
• A MOTION was made and Seconded to move Grad Research to a Teaching Category, with the PMT committee to determine how to handle this at a later date.
VOTE: For 17 Opposed 10 Abstain: 1 MOTION PASSED
• David Briggs made a MOTION, seconded by Bruce Lippke that the following subsections be placed under
Service: Presentations, Committees and Miscellaneous Service.
VOTE: For: 23 Opposed: 3 Abstain: 1 MOTION PASSED
• STUDENT EVALUATIONS: During the past three years there have been very few Student Evaluations reported.
Because there is a minimum requirement of three classes per year, there should be at least 9 courses during 3
years. Frank Greulich made a MOTION that no credit be awarded in any course for which there are no student
evaluations. There was NO SECOND to the motion, thus the MOTION FAILED.
Bruce Lippke made a MOTION, seconded by David Briggs, that the blue changes on the Miscellaneous Service
tab be accepted as recommended.
VOTE: For 20 Opposed 1 Abstain: 1 Motion PASSED.
The meeting adjourned.