Addressing Business TenureTrack Faculty Staffing
WOU Faculty Senate Meeting
April 12, 2016
Overview
• Lack of Business TT Faculty is a Twenty-Year Issue
• Current Department of Business Situation…
– 12% TT Faculty (WOU Average is 60%)
– 600 Business Students
– 300:1 Ratio of Students to TT Faculty
• Crux of Issue: No TT Staffing Changes
Forthcoming
– WOUFT and Administration Aware of Issue
– CBA Assures Reduction in Business TT Faculty
– Dean: “No BUS Staffing Changes in Foreseeable Future”
• Faculty Senate Purview: “Recommendations to
President Concerning Student and Faculty Welfare”
• Senate is the Last Resort for Business Faculty
A Faculty Senate Issue because…
• The Lack of Business TT Faculty…
– Curriculum: Damages Ability of Business to
Develop, Maintain, and Deliver a Curriculum
Capable of Meeting Institutional Objectives
(Accreditation)
– Governance: Significantly Reduces Participation
of Business Faculty in University Governance
(Silences Faculty Voice)
– Advising: Leaves Faculty Ill-Prepared to Advise
(No TT Faculty in Four of Five Concentrations)
• Business TT Faculty Staffing is the “Canary
in the Coal Mine”
Desired Outcome: FS Recommendation…
• President Fuller and Designate(s) Address the
Issue by Developing and Implementing a Staffing
Plan that Allows Business to…
– Develop, Maintain, and Deliver Curriculum
– Meaningful Participation in University Governance
– Deliver Student Advising with “Focus” TT Faculty
• Plan Should Include Requisite Timelines and
Stakeholder Involvement
– Short-Term and Long-Term Solutions
– Business, WOU Administration, WOUFT, and Others
– NOT “Just Wrap This Issue Into the the Appendix K
Committee and the Strategic Planning Process and
Call it Good”
“Language” Addendum
April 26, 2016
FS Recommends Addressing the Lack of TT
Faculty in Business…
• President Fuller is Responsible for Business TT
Staffing Solution
• Staffing Solution Must Provide Sufficient TT Faculty to…
– Develop, Maintain, and Deliver Business Curriculum
– Fully Participate in Governance Activities
– Give Business Students TT Faculty “Concentration
Advising”
• Staffing Solution Must Address/Include…
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# of Positions, Position Descriptions, Timeline, & Salaries
Responsibility for Implementation
Resource Requirements and Source of Funds
Method of Reporting Progress to Faculty Senate
The Relationship of Staffing Solution to Strategic Planning
and Appendix K Committees (If Any)