As of 10-2-01
STATUS OF ISSUES BROUGHT TO THE FACULTY SENATE
(September 2001-May 2002)
Origin |
Item |
Responsible |
Status |
President |
Revise Faculty Handbook concerning internal senior hires and administrative hires. |
Faculty Compensation Committee |
Assigned 8/27/01 |
Faculty Senate |
Salaries: Compression/inversion of mid-career faculty, salaries below national average, the way to get raises is to get a job offer. |
Faculty Compensation Committee |
|
President |
Nominate faculty to task force for student retention and advising. |
Roger Harrison nominated. Task force as sub-committee of Exec. Comm. to study faculty issues. |
|
Faculty Senate |
Faculty definition--non-tenured or tenure track--e.g. renewable term. Representation for renewable term, interdisciplinary, graduate faculty who are staff or non-OU employees. |
Formed sub-committee with Ed Cline as chair. |
|
Faculty Senate |
Legislative relations. |
Formed ad hoc committee chaired by Greg Kunesh |
|
Faculty Senate |
Faculty/staff exercise and wellness facility. |
Scheduled to be a part of the stadium expansion per President commitment. |
President's comment 9/8/01 |
Faculty Senate |
Travel per diem. |
Travel per diem rates will now be determined by the GSA rate or federal standard rate |
Complete |
Faculty Senate |
Form research policies task force. |
Referred to Research Council. Forming sub-committee chaired by E. Laurette Taylor to establish working arrangements. |
Reviewed issue with Lee Williams. Forming as a subcommittee of the Research Council |
Faculty Senate |
White paper on on-line class notes. |
Information Technology Council |
|
Faculty Senate |
Pocket directory for hand-held palm for OU. Include departments and administrative offices in the on-line phone directory. |
Information Technology Council |
|
Info. Technology |
E-mail policy. |
Information Technology Council |
|
Faculty Senate |
Cost of local phone service for faculty (switch to cell phones). |
Information Technology Council |
|
Faculty Senate |
Revive Campus Planning Council. |
Schwarzkopf |
|
Faculty Senate |
Revise Faculty Welfare Committee/Faculty Compensation Committee charges. |
FWC and FCC |
|
Faculty Senate |
Make a Faculty Welfare Committee member an ex officio voting member of Employment Benefits Committee (or handle internally). |
Welfare Committee. Currently not an issue since David Carnevale is serving on both committees. |
|
Faculty Senate |
OU Child Care facility. |
Under review by Faculty Welfare Committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
High out-of-pocket health expenses. |
Faculty Welfare Committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Form benefits oversight committee. |
VP for Administration |
|
Provost |
Feedback on accreditation study. |
Re-accreditation team due the last week of October. |
|
Faculty Senate |
Provost's policy on spousal hires and targeted hires of minority faculty. |
|
Reviewed with provost. Suspension of central funding is temporary. Existing funds allocated to this year's raise. |
Faculty Senate |
Tuition/fee waivers for employee dependents. |
Under review by administration |
|
Internal Auditing |
Revisions in IP policy. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Deadline for adding a course. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Tenure for faculty who are half-time. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Substantive issues concerning discrimination/harassment grievance policy. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Social Security numbers of faculty members on grade sheets. |
Information Technology Council |
|
Provost |
Form task force to revise policy on classroom behavior (including cell phone usage). |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Difficulties in obtaining sufficient number of textbook for classes. |
Executive committee |
Met with bookstore |
Faculty Senate |
Faculty governance in Tulsa. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Student/faculty ratio. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Better perks needed: free tuition and fees for family, free or reduced fees to campus facilities (Huston Huffman, golf), larger discounts to events, free parking. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Greater publicity of OU as a research facility. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Graduate students: resources for recruiting, competitive stipends, fellowships, library materials. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Establish an honor code that students will conduct themselves in an ethical manner concerning homework, exams, attendance, etc. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Physical plant, e.g. broken elevators. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
OTRS "tax" should be explained during recruitment of new faculty. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
Make faculty aware of instructional services available, e.g. word processing, graphic design. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Faculty Senate |
No coordinated effort to purchase media. |
On agenda for the executive committee |
|
Acad. Prog. Council |
Policy on approving online courses |
Subcommittee of Acad. Prog. Council |
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