Minutes

Committee on Faculty and Student Honors Meeting

Friday December 5, 2008

8:45 AM – 9:50 PM

130 Hullihen Hall

 

 

Members Present:

Fabrice Veron, Palaniappa Krishnan, Jordan Brown, Katherine Kerrane, Meghan Schulz, Shelly Provost-Craig, James Magee, Ismat Shah, Courtney Carson, Linda Gottfredson, Mark Serva, Mark Barteau

 

Minutes recorded by Jordan Brown

 

 

There were objections to the minutes from the November 7th meeting. The updated minutes will be sent out in an e-mail.

 

The committee welcomed new member, Palaniappa Krishnan, from the AG school.

 

Mark Barteau has been officially invited to the committee.

 

I. Continuation of discussion on Alison Fellow participation

 

a. E-mail from Jack Baroudi has no objections to having Mark sit on the committee as a solution to the Alison Fellows problem

à problem appears to be one of peer review.

 

            b. Baroudi recommends creating an ad-hoc process in order to facilitate the            committee/Alison Society relationship.

                                   

            c. We are trying to find a way to allow Mark to be on the committee without         violating the rules à Linda recommended creating a process that would allow a   member of the Alison society to give input into how the selection will work, not           who the committee will select

                       

            d. Linda reviewed the problem at hand for the new committee member       (committee has no business selecting Alison award recipients, has students on the           committee, certain recipients have not been acceptable, Stan Sandler has raised           these issues multiple times, wants the Alison society to be a group of peers in             order to select who they want)

 

            e. PK suggested going with the ad-hoc committee idea and acting on the advice    of that committee. He mentioned that decisions made by the Alison Society           members may be biased. Linda added that most winners are located       disproportionately in certain colleges.

 

                        Question: Should we ignore Sandler’s objections and continue with Mark                           on the committee? -à Mark stated that he would be willing to work with                                     the committee in any capacity.

 

                        Mark’s Role: he will be here as an unofficial advisor from the Alison                                   Society.

 

                        Will he have access to Alison dossier? - YES

                        Will he have a vote? –NO

 

 

            f. Mark Serva brought up a question for the second time. à What is the real          issue here? Would adding Mark to the committee truly solve this problem?

 

            Mark/Fabrice – Allowing Alison members to have access to dossier is a       contentious issue.

 

            PK - Faculty Senate can appoint one of its members to observe a committee.

 

            New Mechanism: anyone who wants to read dossiers would have to go through     the Faculty Senate

 

 

II. Additional award for S-Contract faculty

 

            a. Mark Rossettie’s proposal - We would need to endorse it. Linda stated that        creating a new award would not be as simple as Rossettie makes it out to be. She distributed a handout listing questions that the committee needs to consider.

 

            b. Main issues brought up by Linda: legitimacy, s-contract employees are not          full-time faculty à award would signify that they are full-time faculty(equal    status), what would our purpose be in giving this award (one of the primary      reasons we give these awards is to encourage more of this exemplary effort)

 

            Key Issue: Mark Rossettie is largely working to honor one faculty   member(“sizable cadre of instructors?” argument )

 

            c. Shelly asked about how many emails Linda has received pertaining to students who have been unable to nominate s-contract faculty (4-6 a year, but could be            many more since most students ostensibly attempt to nominate, are denied, give      up)

 

            d. Mark Barteau suggested that -contract awards should fall under the        purview of the deans of the respective colleges. He will take the proposal to the deans.

 

            e. At this point, the committee cannot endorse Mark Rossettie’s proposal. He is     encouraging an award that committee does not necessarily support.

 

The meeting adjourned at 9:50 AM. The meeting on January 9th, 2008 has been cancelled. The next meeting will be on February 13th.