Faculty Affairs Committee concerns itself with conditions of employment, evaluation procedures for faculty, selection procedures for new faculty, and governance of the faculty.
    — (Faculty Handbook 3.2.5 a)
 

members of the committee 2010-11
Judith Brown, Erin Dionne, Masako Kamiya (chair), Fred Lynch, Sarah Smith

Members may be contacted individually or via committee chair Masako Kamiya.
 

archive of 2009-10 meeting minutes

Thursday, 13 May

Wednesday, 7 April
salary plan (linkage of rank to salary); criteria for rank, etc.
minutes   word.doc

19 February
time-table for faculty evaluation; sabbatical process and criteria; Faculty Affairs member representation in Librarian interviews
minutes   word.doc

Thurs, 10 December

Thursday, 19 November
(1) frequency of faculty evaluation; (2) evaluation frequency; (3) self-assessment form; (4) regarding professional accomplishments, define terminology; (5) advantages of rank and full professorship; (6) sabbaticals and when they are granted
minutes   word.doc

Tuesday, 3 November
a proposal to replace the faculty trustee (with voting rights on the board) with two faculty representatives (without voting rights).

Monday, 28 September
(1) faculty evaluation; (2) sabbatical policy
minutes   word.doc

Wednesday, 14 October
(1) Report by Charles Boyer (Faculty Representative to Board of Trustees); (2) Sabbaticals; (3) Faculty evaluation forms and other issues from Faculty Meeting.
minutes   word.doc

archive of 2008-09 meeting minutes

• 21 April, 27 April, 5 May 2008
  (1) Rank and sabbatical; (2) faculty evaluations; (3) independent study/directed study
• 6 April 09
  Meeting included questions and concerns about the independent study/directed study topics (in anticipation of the joint meeting with Stacy Thomas-Vickory (chair, Curriculum Committee), Scott Hadfield (chair, Academic Planning Committee) and Marjorie Augenbraum (Chair, Faculty Affairs), scheduled for Wednesday, April 8.

• 22 January 09, 30 October 08, 11 September 08
  combined minutes for these three meetings   word.doc