College of Arts and Sciences
Council of Chairs
November 18, 2009
2:30 p.m., AS 122
Meeting Minutes
Present: J. Berkowitz, J. Brière, A. Broadwell, A. DeBlasi, S. Fessler, E. Gaffney, S. Galime, K. Gersowitz
(recorder), D. Goodwin, G. Griffith, R. Hamm, T. Harrison, V. Idone (for Thorncroft), T. Kinal, R. Lachmann,
J. Large, A. Lyons, C. MacDonald, J. Mandle, M. Messitt, G. Moore, S. North, G. Stevens, M. Sutherland, P.
Toscano, K. Williams, E. Wulfert, A. Zak, R. Zitomer, K. Zhu
Introductory Remarks: Dean Wulfert called the meeting to order at 2:35 p.m.
Minutes of October 21, 2009: A motion to approve the minutes was made by C. MacDonald, seconded by R.
Hamm. The meeting minutes for October 21, 2009 were unanimously approved with minor corrections.
Announcements:
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Full CAS Faculty Meeting is 12/2/09 from 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. in UNH 110
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Cases for Promotion ONLY due 12/15/09 from Department to Dean for decision by 08/31/10
Old Business: – none
New Business – The purpose of this meeting was to involve the Chairs in the process of developing a fair and rational decision making model to guide future resource reinvestment in a time of shrinking resources. Prior to the meeting the Chairs were asked to review a list of investment principles and a list of IRPE data (e.g., FTE, headcount, grants) available, and to consider and score on a 1 (not at all important) to 5 (extremely important) scale each item on the lists, depending on the importance attributed in terms of resource allocation decisions.
The Chairs’ responses, which will be held confidential, were forwarded to the Dean.
To begin the Council discussion of these issues, the Chairs were divided into five groups based on their discipline and asked to come up with a group consensus, based on the same 1 to 5 scale, on what investment principles and data should be considered when making reinvestment decisions. The groupings were based on the premise that a consensus might be more readily achieved within the disciplines and therefore would provide important feedback to the process. The groups were encouraged to suggest additional principles for reinvestment or data that were not found on the list that would be helpful in this process.

Below are the groups:
Arts
Art
Music
Theatre
Humanities
East Asian Studies
English
Judaic Studies
LLC
Philosophy
Social Sciences I
Africana Studies
Anthropology
Geography and Planning (not represented due to illness)
LACS
Women’s Studies
Social Sciences II
Communication
Economics
History
Psychology
Sociology
Sciences
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Math
Physics
After 45 minutes of small-groups discussion the Council reconvened and each group shared the investment principles that they felt were most important to the process (4 and 5 on the rankings). A discussion followed as each group explained the reasons for making their selections. Some groups also shared with the larger group the principles they felt were the least important. A number of groups modified the existing principles or suggested additional principles. Chairs were then asked to individually “vote” for their three top ranked investment principles by placing a sticker on these principles which were listed around the room. A compilation of all the group scores, as well as the discussion pertaining to each item, and the individual results, can be found in the attached file “Investment Principles by Group Summary.”
Due to time constraints, there was no discussion of the data to be used in making reinvestment decisions.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 4:05.
Handouts:
Agenda
Minutes of September 23, 2009 Council of Chairs Meeting
Principles for Reinvestment Decision Model
Available Data for Reinvestment Decision Model