Ione Taylor, chair of the Academic Affairs committee of the Board of Trustees, just noted to the full board in their public meeting the need for improving faculty salaries to match our peers and competitors. She referred to this as ‘deferred people maintenance,’ naming it as a need equivalent to the deferred maintenance of our …
Please feel free to add your comments here during or after the meeting. You may comment anonymously if you wish.
Compensation Committee has asked me to share with the community the following items. These are located on the Committees@Guilford Google Drive folder in the Faculty Meetings section under the September 28 2016 Meeting. The items are: The Faculty Salary subcommittee’s report from last May 2016 The updated recommendations from the subcommittee from September 2016 A set of slides …
[Link from Tom Guthrie] Everything here is good advice, except at Guilford our Quaker tradition makes some (note, only some, not all) faculty comfortable with first names and no honorific. How to email your professor without being annoying by Laura Portwood-Stacer, at Medium.com, April 2016
I did the following analysis while talking with Beth about our fall calendar, and I thought it might be interesting to share. This is the number of courses by time slot for fall 2016: Some notes: All courses listed with times are counted regardless of credits. That means labs are included. For courses that overlap …
From the University of Arizona Commission on the Status of Women: Avoiding Gender Bias in Reference Writing [link from Vance Ricks, who points out this is not only applicable to student recommendations but also to letters for colleagues]
An interesting article challenging assumptions in higher education hiring, by Marybeth Gasman, Penn State Professor of Education. The five things no one will tell you about why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color [link from Don Smith]
Guilford College Clerk’s Committee Meeting Friday, September 9, 2016 11:30 a.m. Attending were Alfonso Abad Mancheno, Dave Dobson, Beth Rushing, Kathryn Shields, Don Smith, and Eva Lawrence (minute taker). Absent were Sherry Giles, Gwen Gosney Erickson, and Jeffrey Ray. Minutes from 9/2 were approved with minor revisions. Position requests There are many departments who plan …
Clerk’s Committee Meeting Friday, September 2, 2016 11:30 a.m. The committee gathered with Dave Dobson, Beth Rushing, Alfonso Abad Mancheno, Sherry Giles, Eva Lawrence, Kathryn Shields, Don Smith, and Gwen Gosney Erickson. Jeffrey Ray was not present. Minutes from the August 18 meeting were approved with minor corrections. Gathering and Moment of Silence 3 minutes …
Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda Friday September 9, 2016 11:30 am Gathering and Moment of Silence – 3 minutes Approval of Minutes from 9/9 meeting – 2 minutes Update on Compensation Committee for Fall 2016 – 2 minutes Planning for study leave requests – 3 minutes Planning for position requests – 5 minutes Setting up Committee …
Read more “Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda Friday September 9, 2016 11:30 am”