[From Tim Kircher] Dear colleagues, this article expresses well our collaborative venture, which the QEP fosters. In my conversations with Goldie Byrd, Dean of A&T and Professor of Biology, she emphasized the critical collaboration as well. As I like to think of it, the liberal arts are the roots (and routes) for STEM. Regarding the …
Read more “Washington Post piece on the importance of liberal arts in science”
The slides shown at the faculty budget forum on February 11 are available on the faculty Moodle site here: Faculty Forum Budget Slides (login required)
We approved these minutes together at the Feb. 16th meeting, so I’m posting them together here. The February 9th meeting was a special meeting where we were invited to meet with Jane about the tuition remission issue. Clerk’s minutes from 2-2-15 Final Clerk’s minutes from 2-9-15 Final
The following are notes from the faculty forum on budget, taken by Sherry Giles (thanks Sherry!). When I spoke, I’m identified; most other speakers are not identified, so read each paragraph as a separate comment or point from a different speaker. Please let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to leave …
Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda – Monday February 16, 2015 8:30 am 1. Gathering and Moment of Silence – 3 minutes 2. Approval of Minutes from February 2, 2015 – 2 minutes 3. Approval of Minutes from February 9, 2015 – 2 minutes 4. Review of faculty meeting minutes December 3, 2014 – 2 minutes 5. …
Grade Distribution Reports for Fall Term 2014 and January Term 2015 are posted on the Faculty Moodle conference. If you’d like to see them, please go here: Grade Distribution Reports (Login required)
Please feel free to comment here on issues relating to budget, budget cutting, and priorities during the budget planning process. If you want to communicate directly to someone, the faculty representatives to the President’s Cabinet are: Darryl Samsell (Chair of Budget Committee) Sherry Giles (Clerk’s Committee) Dave Dobson (Clerk, Budget Committee) Other budget committee representatives are: Gwen …
Read more “Discussion Area for Faculty Forum on Budget, February 11, 2015”
Ad Hoc Admission Committee Minutes 10-29-14 Ad Hoc Admission Committee Minutes 12-3-14
A well-spoken defense of tenure from Michael Schwalbe at NC State. Link here
Berkeley Salary Study – Inside Higher Ed I’m hoping we can do something like this here, although our small numbers of faculty may make statistical analysis difficult. (Link from Richie Zweigenhaft, commentary by Dave)