Faculty Senate News
January 2000
President Moulton addressed the Faculty
Senate at the January meeting on the effects decreases in state funding and
tuition for this year has had on the budget.
He encouraged faculty to call their legislatures and ask them to support
funding for higher education. The other
implication of funding decreases is that faculty will not receive a raise this
year. President Moulton pledged that
any extra money next year would go toward salary raises. President Moulton listed several strategies
that the administration have in place to gain financial support for the
university. Many of the faculty
senators, although not happy to hear the news, appreciated Mr. Moulton's effort
to give us this information directly and his willingness to answer
questions.
Carr &
Associates will be here the morning of February 24, 2000 to present the results
of their football feasibility
study. It will be a public
presentation so faculty are encouraged to attend. Exact time and place will be
announced. I have asked Richmond Brown
to be the faculty senate spokesperson.
Again, all faculty are encouraged to attend !
The Arts and Sciences Dean Search is well
in progress. The search committee
should have a list of candidates to invite to interview within the next week to
give to Dr. Covey.
Since
the last faculty senate meeting, the interviews for VP for Academic Affairs
candidates have been set up with specifics on times and place of presentation
to be posted soon. Again I encourage
faculty to attend the presentations and there will be a meeting with the
faculty senate for each candidate. We
discussed the VP selection procedure from this point forward with President
Moulton and he said he would select the
final candidate based on input from all areas of the university community. He said that he welcomed input from
faculty. The search committee will not
rank candidates after the interview process.
Summary of interview dates: Dr. Covey, Jan. 27 & 28; Dr. Hudson,
Feb. 9 & 10; Dr. Radonovich, Feb. 15 & 16 and Dr. Doblin, Feb. 21
&22. Copies of the candidates vitas
can be found in the Library.
Since the last senate meeting the College
of Allied Health Caucus and the Computer Science Caucus expressed their
displeasure at the memo I presented to the Search Committee. Both caucuses expressed the belief that they
had no concerns with the Search Committee.
On the other hand faculty from Arts and Science, Business and Education
reported that they approved of the memo.
Again I see my role as representing the various opinions of the faculty
who communicate to me and to the executive committee their concerns. I will continue to do this.
At this point I would like to encourage
everyone to take a constructive, positive approach to the search. We have several good candidates that will be
interviewed and President Moulton maintains that the other 6 candidates files
will remain active until he feels the best candidate for the university is
selected. Evaluation forms are being
passed around for those who attend a session or interview to rate the
candidate. Also the faculty senate will
be summarizing feedback from faculty on their impressions of the candidates and
forwarding that to Mr. Moulton. Please
feel free to send me your impressions or thoughts on this matter.
The
Salary & Fringe Benefits committee is in the process of setting up a survey
to determine faculty and staff interest in a dental plan. This committee has
also presented a vacation policy resolution similar to the sick leave proposal. The Policy & Handbook committee has been
very active and has proposed several resolutions, including one on course
overload. The Evaluation committee is
in the process of setting us the annual survey. Planning & Development committee has been following up on
issues of safety on campus. Please
contact your caucus leaders or chairs of the committees if you have any
questions or suggestions. You can also
review resolutions proposed and their current status on the faculty senate
website.
The faculty
senate passed a resolution in appreciation of Keith Ayers and his work in
public relations. So many faculty have
been impressed with Mr. Ayers energy in promoting the good qualities of U.S.A. We also have noted his eagerness to work
with faculty and help educate both the university community as well as the
Mobile community as to the excellent work of faculty.
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