Leadership Council
April 13, 2017
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. – Hill 314
Notes
In attendance: David Hough, Russ Brock, Gilbert Brown, Christine Combs, Denise Cunningham, Janice Duncan, Cathy Pearman, James Satterfield, James Sottile, Jane Ward
Dean Hough attended the Academic Administrators Assembly (AAA) meeting yesterday and discussed some of the topics. On Performance Measure #3, licenses, MoPTA looks good now but there is no way to predict what the future might be for this or any replacement licensure assessment that might be adopted. IHE educator accountability in the future could very well focus on the following:
1) The quality of students accepted into education programs.
2) The amount of rigor programs require of their students.
3) The percent of students admitted into programs that persist to graduation.
4) Graduate pass rates on licensure exams.
5) The percent of graduates earning certificates that are employed in their area of certification.
6) How well graduates are performing on the job.
Dean Hough noted that lively debate regarding the merits of the above accountability measures as well as criteria used to assessment same will likely unfold over the coming years.
This conversation was followed by James Sottile who handed out information on passrate scores for traditional and alternative programs. Our students do well. Discussion focused on whether or not COE programs should raise the MOGEA cut score for our programs. If so, what would we raise it to and what would be the outcome? The dean suggested discussing the pros and cons during the summer. He will work with James Sottile on data that are needed to inform such a conversation. At this time, there are no recommendations.
Also at AAA, SCUFF funding was discussed. Qualitrics, was discussed. This program works better than Survey Monkey. Dean Hough was asked to determine what the split in University cost, i.e., $20,000 would be among the six academic colleges, Student Affairs, Meyer Library, Graduate College and Agriculture based on each cost center’s total operating budget. First, the cost will be verified and then they will look at the percentages on how much each would need to contribute. Dean Hough will share this information with the units and report back regarding any decision or recommendation. He mentioned that someone would need to be the administrator over the system for the University and that decision should be determined prior to any final recommendation going forward.
Dean Hough handed out his COE fact sheet he gives to the Board of Governors regarding our College’s information on the staff, degrees offered and other information. Everyone is to look at it and send corrections/updates to Sharon by next Wednesday, April 19th. The document needs to be sent to the Provost’s Office by April 28th for the May BOG meeting.
Faculty Advisory Council discussed and drafted a Faculty Ethics Document at their March meeting, which was discussed again at their meeting yesterday. The document includes ethics of authorships, presentations and service. It was distributed for LC members to look at. FAC would like faculty to put the percentage of participation/contribution for themselves regarding any article co-authored. It was recommended that the document be written to a general audience of faculty for each person’s consideration.
The Provost’s Office sent the deans three scenarios regarding the online course incentive for faculty and was asked to have their budget committee choose from Scenario 1 or 2 only along with where they would take the remaining funds needed for the FY17 budget cut. Scenario 1 keeps the $55 per student faculty internet incentive payments in place (we would need to cut $113,989) and Scenario 2 pays faculty $40 per student (we would need to still cut $20,686). Dean Hough explained that if we were to keep it the same, the dollar amount we are allocated does not cover all of the amount paid. Every year the additional money is taken from ongoing salary funds. The budget committee meets Tuesday, April 18th. Whichever scenario is agreed upon, besides coming up with the amount stated more cuts will need to be made in order to hire faculty and an RFT department head. The dean will still need to look at staff cuts. LC members suggested cutting travel funds and only have funds available for those working toward tenure/promotion. The dean said he would like all faculties to weigh in on any such change in policy prior to any changes in policy or practice being considered.
The Provost’s retreat will be on July 18, 2017, at the Darr Ag. Center. Let the Dean know if you have anything you would like to see on that agenda. On topic that came up was instituting a series of monthly meetings with department heads, department Promotion/Tenure Committee chairs and mentors. The purpose would be to have conversations about everyone being on the same page regarding annual reviews and tenure and promotion. Dean Hough agreed to consider this and will meet with department heads to discuss what these meetings would entail. He suggested departments let faculty know that P&T chairs should agree to attend these meetings as part of their duties and responsibilities and that mentors should be invited but not required to attend. Dean Hough will meet with Provost Einhellig over the coming weeks to see if he would approve COE hosting these meetings as monthly luncheons paid by donors beginning this summer or early next fall. More to come on this.
The meeting was adjourned.
Submitted by Sharon Lopinot