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Report from the Working Group on NTT Faculty

Report from the Working Group on NTT Faculty. April 17, 2013. WG Members. Engineering Scott Cutler, Professor in the Practice, 12 yrs (Senate rep. NTT teaching) Ann Saterbak, Professor in the Practice, 14 yrs Humanities Jonathan Ludwig, Senior Lecturer,10 yrs (Senate rep. NTT teaching)

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Report from the Working Group on NTT Faculty

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  1. Report from the Working Group on NTT Faculty April 17, 2013

  2. WG Members Engineering Scott Cutler, Professor in the Practice, 12 yrs (Senate rep. NTT teaching) Ann Saterbak, Professor in the Practice, 14 yrs Humanities Jonathan Ludwig, Senior Lecturer,10 yrs (Senate rep. NTT teaching) Jones School Kim Kimmey, Lecturer, 5 yrs Natural Sciences Beth Beason-Abmayr, Lecturer, 15 yrs Dave Caprette, Professor in the Practice, 26 yrs (Senate rep. NTT teaching) Stanislav Sazykin, Senior Faculty Fellow,13 yrs (Senate rep. NTT research) Shepherd School Rachel Buchman, Lecturer, 11 yrs Jeanne Fischer, Artist Teacher, 21 yrs Social Sciences Beverly Mitchell, Lecturer, 5 yrs • Six of seven schools • Average 12+ years of service

  3. The Charge • "Develop a prioritized list of the most important issues concerning the future of NTT faculty at Rice, the rationale behind the ranking of items, and recommendations. Relevant issues may include NTT job titles, opportunities for promotion, range of responsibilities, employment security, and/or equitable compensation. Since these issues may require extensive work and research, and may therefore require a different kind of committee (e.g. with Human Resources representatives), the list is preliminary to formation of an expanded working group or committee."

  4. Objective:Retain a stable core of experienced, highly regarded, NTT faculty who specialize in either teaching or research • Consistent teaching and systematic improvement of teaching • Informed advising (undergraduate and sometimes graduate students) • Department responsibilities include committee work, course and curriculum development • Maintain long term beneficial relationships with students and TT faculty

  5. Recommendation 1:Define career paths for NTT faculty and provide for improved employment security • Model after best practices of other institutions • promotion to depend on performance • appropriate titles • possible financial incentives • Address the uncertainty inherent in the current contractual arrangements

  6. Recommendation 2:Review how policies are applied towards NTT faculty • Do some policies toward TT faculty needlessly exclude NTT faculty? • E.g., only recently have NTT-teaching faculty been eligible for Brown Teaching Awards • The WG must include one, or preferably, two tenured faculty

  7. Recommendation 3:Collect data on NTT faculty • Necessary for recommendations 1 and 2 • Develop frequently updated NTT database • Contact information, titles, department and/or school • Sort ~90 unique titles into manageable categories • How are NTT faculty utilized in different schools, departments at Rice? • How does such utilization compare with peer institutions?

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