STATUS OF NONTENURE-TRACK INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY STANDING COMMITTEE

Meeting
Friday, February 14, 2003
10:00 AM, Gilbert (west) 201

Minutes:

Committee Members Attending: Robert Davis, Romance Languages; Peter Gilkey, Mathematics; Lynn Kahle, Sports Marketing (co-chair), Business; Jim Long, Chemistry (co-chair; Susan Fagan, English; Jeanne Wagenknecht, Business; Greg McLaughlan, Sociology (Senate President 2002/3).

Data Gathering Help

The committee met with Andrea Larsen, Sr. Research Analyst, Office of Resource Management (adlarson@oregon.uoregon.edu)

Lynn Kahle reviewed for our guest some of the interests and concerns of the committee. Among those concerns was that the committee have the best basis for considering norms of equity among fixed-term instructional faculty on campus as well as equity with comparator institutions.

Andrea Larsen distributed a 31-page handout with two parts: (1) University of Oregon and All Participating AAU Peer Institutions. Comparison of Faculty Salaries from Fall 2001 AAUDE Faculty Salary Survey, Summary by School/College and Rank and (2) University of Oregon and OUS Defined Peers. Comparison of Faculty Salaries from Fall 2001 AAUDE Faculty Salary Survey, Summary by School/College and Rank.

Larsen walked us through the handout, noting that the second set of data was the better for comparisons with peer institutions. Greg McLaughlan noted that although the salary levels for instructors is not significantly worse than the levels for those in the professor ranks, the levels overall are low. The University Senate maintains a white paper on salaries for the professor levels that has established the goal of 95% parity with OUS comparator schools. There is no corresponding white paper for fixed-term faculty. Larsen noted that the numbers given for instructors at or above 0.9 FTE.

After additional discussion, the committee requested additional data from Larsenıs office: (all without names) (1) Time in current position, (2) Initial hire date, (3) rank, (4) unit, (5) Annual Salary, (6) Total compensation. She will send the data in about ten days. Following this productive exchange, the committee thanked Larsen and moved to other business.

Planning for the rest of the term

Given the need to submit a report by the May University Senate meeting (or better yet, the April meeting), the committee set goals.

Regarding data analysis, we will work with data supplied by the Office of Resource Management. Jim Long will take the lead on that on receipt of data from Larsen. The survey should be completed by the end of the month and the report finished late in March. This will give us some time to digest the results and write that portion of our report to the Senate.

Some brainstorming led to possible ways to communicate to fixed-term faculty next year. One possibility was a user group (e-mail). It was noted that this would need to be one in which people could respond but not to the entire list‹that gets out of hand and becomes too much to follow. It would serve as a vehicle for announcements, etc.

The committee also felt that at least preliminary policy recommendations should be part of this yearıs report. Assignments were made for committee members to prepare specific drafts for our next meeting.

Our next meeting will again be in Gilbert (west) room 201, on Thursday, 2/27, from 8:30-10:00 am. We will get drafts of policies to discuss from Susan on timely notice, Robert on hiring policies, and Jeanne on employment practices.

Minutes by Jim Long.

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