Faculty Meeting Highlights and Budget Update

1. Faculty meeting May 2010 • QEP topic selection team – Dr. Diane Snow • Assessment discussion – David Williams, Chuck Dougherty • GEN ED course approval – PLS 104, ABT 120 • WEG volunteers, CA promotional tent – Bill Witt • Budget report • Discussion • Wethington Awards • Departmental Allowances • Faculty positions

2. QEP Topic Selection Team

3. Assessment Discussion

4. GEN ED course approval

5. WEG

6. Budget Report

10. PSS Budget Changes • Transfer $68,667 from state to federal salaries • PSS cut $74,500 • RCTF current expense $5836 • State teaching current expense $1520 • Reduce fac. line to assist. prof. level $22,228 • Close staff position (partial) $13,863 • Close staff position $31,058

11. Wethington Awards

13. Wethington Awards • The criteria for the selection of nominees must include, at a minimum, evidence of scholarly productivity and excellence such as: • number of grants submitted and funded as PI or co-PI; • percent of salary funded from grants; • refereed publications and quality of journals; • training of graduate students or postdoctoral fellows; • regional or national awards; • patents or commercialization activity.  •  Each unit will develop their own criteria for the selection of faculty and the algorithm for recommending the award amount.

14. Departmental Allowances

15. Departmental Allowances July 2009 $ 80,500 promised

16. What to do for July 2010? • What about no departmental allowances to individuals so the money can be pooled and used for other purposes such as graduate student support, equipment purchase, maintenance, etc? • or Keep departmental allowances and: • Allocate them in a manner similar to July 2009 • Allocate an equal amount to each recipient, this would have been $1600 July 2009 • Allocate a minimal amount to each recipient and allocate the rest based on a reward structure such as co-author with graduate student 1st authorship, or per GenEd course created and taught, or per course taught with a distance education component, etc.

17. Faculty Positions