Committee on Faculty Governance (CFG) Annual Report, 2003-2004
CFG met 30 times over the academic year. In addition, CFG convened the
Committee of Committees on two occasions, participated in one meeting
with the Governance Advisory Council (GAC), held one community-wide meeting
and organized two Faculty-Only meetings. Besides conducting its routine
business (Faculty Handbook maintenance, committee elections and appointments,
replacing committee members as necessary, etc.), CFG dealt with numerous
issues, among them:
Reorganization of the governance system: in order to make the governance
system more efficient (leaner), more productive, and more receptive to
faculty needs, most of CFG's efforts during the year were devoted to its
comprehensive reorganization.
* CFG spent a significant amount of time during the summer and fall of
2003 researching the nature of other college's FPPCs (or equivalent) and
talking with past and current members of FPPC in order to determine how
best to solve the problem of the nagging dissatisfaction with the committee
(a dissatisfaction expressed by the faculty by refusing to run for it).
CFG concluded that it would be best to do away with the committee and
fold its function into a revised version of IPC (Institutional Planning
Committee), to be called IPPC (Institutional Policy and Planning Committee).
* CFG met with President Glotzbach a number of times to discuss governance
in general and the nature of IPC/IPPC in particular.
Faculty approved two motions at the final faculty meeting of 2004 that
will facilitate the implementation of changes in governance in the 2004-5
year. Motion 1: CFG moves that the Financial Policy and Planning Committee
(FPPC) be eliminated as of the end of the 2003-04 academic year. Motion
two: CFG moves that the membership of the Institutional Planning Committee
(IPC) for the 2004-5 academic year be modified.
The specifications of the governance restructuring, including the function
of IPPC, are under discussion during the summer 2004, and will continue
into the 2004-5 year.
Searches:
*CFG advised the administration about the Tang Director search.
*CFG facilitated the inclusion of faculty on the search committee for
the VP for Business Affairs.
Ongoing issues that were not resolved but continue to demand CFG's attention:
*The necessity of "community" meetings - those that include
the entire campus community, as well as meetings of academic and professional
staff members.
*The nature of Faculty Meetings.
*Inactivity of some committees: Institutional Planning Committee (IPC),
Diversity and Affirmative Action Committee (DAAC)
*Which departments and/or programs are considered "pre-professional."
Acknowledgements
CFG wishes to express its appreciation to the staff of the DOF office,
including Sue Blair, Colleen Kelly, Chris McGill and Karen Garnsey, for
their excellent and timely assistance on many issues. We appreciate faculty
willing to run for positions and serve on committees. The outgoing Chair
wishes to thank all of the members of CFG for their good will. Gove Effinger
was especially helpful throughout the year as an available and patient
mentor.
2003-4 membership
John Anzalone. Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tim Burns, Government (fall)
Gove Effinger, Math and Computer Sciences
Katie Hauser, Art and Art History (chair)
Kate Leavitt, Art and Art History
Mary Stange, Philosophy and Religion
Joanna Zangrando, American Studies (spring)
2004-5 membership
John Anzalone, Foreign Languages and Literatures (chair)
Tim Burns, Government
Katie Hauser, Art and Art History
Susan Kress, English
Tad Kuroda, History
Joanna Zangrando, American Studies
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