Priorities

  1. Continue ELR priority from last year
    1. EEAC and ECCC need to continue their work on language to clarify what constitutes an ELR course
    2. Study USA is currently excluded from the definition
    3. Clarify ambiguities with the EEAC. For example, no chair is specified in the membership.
  2. Assemble a new Chairs task force
    1. Charge(s) must be very specific with a narrow focus
    2. Chairs training
      1. Writing Unit IIIs
      2. Advising faculty on extra-departmental service
      3. Fair/equitable assignments of Reassigned Time
      4. Fair/equitable assignments of advisees
  3. Process for Standing Committee assignments
    1. Storing information on committee preferences
    2. Standardize the selection process
    3. Work on the perception of necessity for service on University-wide committees
  4. Support for post-probationary faculty
  5. Develop handbook language regarding policy and procedure for faculty members seeking disability accommodations.
  6. Concerns/recommendations from P&T committee
    1. Determine what, specifically, needs to be submitted in the portfolio with regard to SPoTs.
    2. Clearly communicate that P&T is substantial service and requires a considerable time commitment.
    3. Clarify the “years in rank” and/or “years of experience” requirement in the continuance, promotion and tenure process.
    4. Clarify what kinds of special positions should be considered as service and which ones should not, and determine how best to consider these positions toward evaluating promotion/tenure.
    5. Stress that candidates standing for P&T are required to clarify how each piece of scholarship was peer reviewed. (This requirement is not new.)
    6. Clarify how student engagement should be considered in scholarship/mentoring.
    7. Develop a program to assist department chairs and faculty in writing Unit 1’s and Unit 3’s; possibly standardize the documents even more.
    8. Clarify the role of the P&T committee in reviewing credentials during the hiring process for academic administrators.
    9. Clearly articulate what may be shared in the appeal process.
    10. Increase efforts to ensure the confidentiality of the entire P&T process.
      1. Consider a formal commitment to confidentiality by members of P&T
      2. Consider ways in which a false “word on the street” can be corrected without a breach of confidentiality.

Other issues/concerns

  1. Examine issues surrounding the identity of the Arts/Performing Arts at Elon and fix language in the Handbook to make sure it is accurate
  2. Daycare: Determine the interest level among faculty and staff and proceed from there.
  3. Continue to clean up the Handbook, especially with duplications and clerical errors