from the Faculty Senate
KEVIN B. FITE
• Faculty Welfare
• The University’s Academic Mission and Academic Standards
• 14 elected members • 3 RSoB members • 3 CSoE members • 4 A&S members • 1 LSHS members • 2 at‐large members • 1 member from combined group (currently vacant)
• Distribution amongst faculty ranks
• 3 full professors • 5 associate professors • 5 assistant professors • 8 tenured faculty • 2 tenure‐track faculty • 2 teaching‐track faculty • 1 clinical faculty
• Meetings of the senate • Twice‐monthly during the semester‐based academic year • Other meetings as needed • Open to all University faculty and staff • Senate agendas • Agenda set by the senate executive committee • Items come from senate committees, faculty, academic affairs, student affairs, HR, and other administrative units • Communication mechanisms • Dissemination of agenda packets et al. via faculty email distribution list(s) • Bilateral engagement between faculty and elected senators • Anonymous feedback via Google form accessible to those with CU network credentials
• Fiscal health/well-being of the institution
• Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships
• Affordability of health insurance for our graduate students and their
dependents
• Faculty Governance and the
Senate’s Ad Hoc Committee
• Restructuring of senate composition • Formal procedures for non‐curricular
proposals
• Promotions Committee procedures and composition
• Watchdog over Policies and
Practices Impactful to:
• Faculty
• Academic Mission
• Role(s) of Faculty in Budget
Matters • Transparency in academic affairs revenues/expenditures • Formal mechanisms for faculty input to annual budgetary decisions • Long-Range Planning • Early engagement of faculty in planning • Continued involvement of faculty throughout planning/decision‐making processes
Academic Mission Committee
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
COACHE - Who responded?
120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 111 61 62 75 85 76 34 29 44 52 Tenured Pre-Tenure Teaching/Clinical Track Faculty of Color SA & S CU SB SO E H S O th er 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70Responding to the COACHE Survey
18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0Teaching & Clinical Track Tenure Track
Ye ar s at C la rk so n
Professor of Practice Instructor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor
n=4 n=10 n=28 n=5 n <5 n=72 n=56 n=56
For tenure track faulty, there are no statistically significant differences in time to The majority of teaching and clinical faculty were hired after 2015 ( 44%) as
Responding to the COACHE Survey
Of ce of Faculty Achievement Professional Development and Leadership Training Initiatives
In addition to partnering with EAB and NCFDD, the Office of Faculty Achievement will continue to support the work of the NSF Advance Project STEM-Leaf, to support the research mentoring programs of SRS and ISE among others, and to advance on recommendations from faculty for additional training and support.
Responding to the COACHE Survey
Faculty expressed concerns with
communication and leadership from
the unit level to administration.
While these concerns were variably expressed by different constituencies,
Responding to the Governance Report
RECOMMENDATION - develop clear, crisp, and consistent job descriptions for chairs, deans, etc. - Chair/academic program director description communicated to senate
- Descriptions for deans/directors will be communicated to Senate in February
RECOMMENDATION - create widely understood process for evaluation of deans/directors, chairs etc.
- Chair/academic program director appointment and review process developed by Deans and reviewed by chairs/program directors has been communicated to Senate and is being implemented currently.
- Process for Dean/Director review in review by Deans/Directors for communication to Senate in February and implementation by March 2021
RECOMMENDATION - leadership training for deans, chairs etc. - Membership in NCFDD
- HR-Office of Faculty Achievement training for search committees
- Chairs training started (using data to evaluate course schedules among others) With arrival of Interim CFO, will act on recommendation for establishing a long-range budget and planning conference committee. Continuing to work all levels from faculty to chairs to upper administration on communications.
