Dear Colleagues,
Here is an additional correction to the minutes:
>
>Dr. Noe,
>I would like to correct my name.
>My name appeared in your e mail as Ahn Jooyong but it should be Jooyong Ahn.
>Thank you.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marcia Noe <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:19:48 -0400
>Subject: [UTCSTAFF] Minutes: Faculty Meeting (9/14/04)
>
>Richard Rice called the meeting to order at 3:15,
>
>The minutes of April 20, 2004 were corrected as follows: Under the
>discussion of the freshman seminar, Jocelyn Sanders corrected her comment
>to read: "The freshman seminar committee is determining the means of
>assessment."With that correction, the minutes were approved.
>
>Motion: To allow Marcia Noe to serve her third year on the Faculty
>Administrative Relations Committee (Honerkamp/Churnet).  Motion failed.
>
>Nominations were made to replace Marcia Noe on the Faculty Administrative
>Relations Committee.  June Hanks and Sheila Van Ness were nominated.  June
>Hanks was elected.
>
>The deans introduced the new faculty members for the 2004-2005 academic year:
>
>Dean Burhenn introduced the following new faculty members from the College
>of Arts and Sciences:
>Bret Clough, Deborah Kreiss, and Bradley Reynolds, Biological and
>Environmental Sciences;
>Daron Janzen and Howard McLean, Chemistry;
>Kimberley Carr, and Angel Geoghagan, Criminal Justice;
>Jacqueline Boals, April Cooper, Paul Guest, Matthew Guy, Bryan Hampton,
>James Inman, John Jones, and Paige Joynter, English;
>John (Matt) Matthews, III, Tracy Poole, and Martha Pratt, Mathematics;
>Ahn Jooyong and Jan Cochrane, Music;
>Mark Fisher, Dennis Plaisted, and Brian Ribeiro, Philosophy and Religion;
>Peter Groves, Physics;
>Julie Buck and Melissa Gratias, Psychology;
>Stephanie Stokes-Eley and Jillian Zwilling, Theatre and Speech.
>
>Dean Casavant introduced the new faculty members from the College of
>Business: Debbie Archambeault and Kristy McManus, Accounting.
>
>Dean Bailey introduced the new faculty members from the College of
>Engineering and Computer Science:  Deng Hongmei will join the Department of
>Computer Science in January.
>
>Dean Tanner introduced the new faculty members from the College of Health,
>Education, and Professional Studies:
>
>Kristi Gibbs, Graduate Studies Division;
>Mark Gillen, Graduate Studies Division, Counseling;
>Melody (Gaye) Stone and Donna Emerson, Human Ecology;
>Steve Arnold, Assistant Coordinator, Nurse Anesthesia;
>Cheryl Newton, Social Work;
>Cowan Kaye, Bonnie Warren-King and Dolly Gerregano, Teacher Preparation
>Academy;
>Kelli Hand, Nursing.
>
>Theresa Liedtka is the new Dean of the Library.
>
>        Richard Rice mad e the following report from the faculty senate:
>The new EDO process is being clarified by the Handbook Committee.
>Cumulative Performance Review will continue.  Richard referred to Betsey
>Darken's e-mail on this subject. The enrollment cap situation and peer
>group situation are in abeyance. The Lupton faculty travel fund will
>continue.  Marvin Ernst is coordinating this program.  The Football
>Committee is chaired by Tom Rybolt and two student members will be chosen.
>The committee will do a cost-benefit study of UTC's football program.  A
>final report will be given only at the end of this football season.
>Perhaps the faculty or the faculty senate may wish to make recommendations.
>No classes will be held on Wednesday, November 24, but the University will
>be open for business on Wednesday, November 24.  The University will be
>closed on Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26.
>
>        Chancellor Frederick Obear expressed his pleasure at returning to
>the Chancellor's office and said that the Chancellor's Search Committee had
>met with System President John Peterson that morning.  We have a record
>head count and FTE for the institution.  Head count is 8689 students, a 2%
>increase over last year.  We have a record freshman enrollment--1502
>students, an increase of 91 freshmen.  Our African American student
>enrollment is also at a record high: 19.9 of our students is African
>Americans, and 27% of the freshman class is African Americans.  Centennial
>High School in Nashville joins our list of top ten feeder schools.  We also
>had a very successful recruiting and alumni event in Memphis in connection
>with last weekend's football game.  Many of our incoming students are
>products of the joint enrollment program.  Our students who are 25 years
>and older is a group that continues to decline, probably a function of our
>increase in student housing.  We have 2500 students in residence on campus.
>The SIMS Center has achieved its 5-year enrollment goal and has exceeded
>its enrollment projections.
>        Since July 1 we have brought in $3,000,000 in gifts, including a
>$300,000 scholarship gift to Mathematics from Dorothy Shelton in memory of
>Marge Watson, and a $750,0000 gift from Brenda McKenzie has been received
>by the College of Business.
>        We are still having problems getting dorms open; students are still
>living in hotels and in temporary space on campus.  The Federal Government
>has approved the transfer of 200 acres of land in East Hamilton County to
>UTC for environmental and wildlife teaching and research space and for
>recreational use.  Our construction boom continues on campus.  Ground will
>be broken on Collins Street for special interest facilities (largely
>fraternities and sororities) during this fiscal year.  The Wellness Center
>will break ground by the end of the calendar year.  The Strength and
>Conditioning Center now has an architect and we anticipate a spring
>groundbreaking.  We have an additional 8 and a half million dollars in
>capital maintenance projects going on this year.  The Chancellor asked
>everyone to join with him in creating a campus environment that will
>attract good candidates to the Chancellor search.
>
>        The Provost made the following report:  He is pleased to have Fred
>Obear as interim chancellor.  The Ed.D degree in Educational Leadership has
>been approved by the UT Board of Trustees and by THEC.  The program will
>begin next May with the first cohort and two new faculty members for the
>program are being aggressively recruited to begin in January; next year a
>third faculty member will  be added to the program. Last spring the faculty
>senate approved an articulation agreement for students transferring to UTC
>>from Tennessee Board of Regents two-year and four-year schools.  The senate
>stipulated that the agreement must be reciprocal.  The TBR Board approved
>the articulation agreement with the reciprocity clause.  The transition
>>from 128 to 120 hours for graduation has been approved.  The increase in
>ACT score from 16 to 17 and the increase in TOFOL score to 550 for
>admissions standards have been approved by the UT Board.
>        We have three new major initatives this fall:  a mission review,
>chaired by Marvin Ernst; a budget review committee, chaired by Richard
>Cassavant; and a quality enhancement plan, required by SACS.  We lost 32
>faculty, including 8 on their last year of phased retirement and added 43
>new faculty this year, 17 on tenure track and 26 on term appointments.
>Freshman Seminar is being reviewed and we are looking at what other school
>are doing; a task force to redesign and test a freshman seminar program is
>being implemented this year.
>        The compensation package for faculty for the current fiscal year
>(2005) includes a 3% across-the-board raise that accrues to the base
>salary, and also a $250.000 pool to be divided among faculty and staff,
>with $100,000 of that pool going to faculty.  Also in the current year's
>budget are $250,000 for compression and equity adjustments; $210,000 of
>this will go directly to salaries.  Deans have submitted recommendations
>for individual allocations of that $210,000 which have been sent to
>Knoxville for approval from the vice-president for finance of the UT
>system.  He anticipates that those faculty recommended for compression and
>equity adjustments will see this raise in their September paycheck.
>Finally, a one-time longevity bonus will be paid to faculty and staff at
>the rate of 70 dollars for each year of serv ice for faculty and staff who
>have been here three years or longer to a maximum of $1750.00.  Last spring
>$1,901,000 was requested from the budget committee for academic affairs;
>$1,100,000 was approved.  The first four priorities were funded:  chronic
>deficits, faculty salaries, salary compression, and library.  Some
>discretionary funds have been made available to the Colleges for the deans
>to disperse according to their priorities.
>        The budget for next year and the year after that are of primary
>concern:  Academic Affairs has some serious unfunded needs: a number of
>faculty teaching at UTC are paid with gift funds.   We have three different
>groups of faculty that need to be rolled onto the budget:  1).computational
>engineering( Sims Center); five  have been granted tenure .  This will cost
>$1, 040,286. 2. Also, $280,000 must be rolled into the budget to cover 17
>faculty who are teaching general education courses on soft money.  3). the
>Ed.D. program will hire three faculty at the cost of $100,000 each; these
>people are now being paid out of a grant from the UC Foundation and
>eventually all of this money will have to  be covered by the state budget.
>UTC Foundation professorships also roll into the budget eventually from the
>Foundation's budget; the total cost of this plus promotions is $120,000 per
>year.  Two full-time academic advisors now being paid out of the Lupton
>Fund need to be rolled into the budget.  Last spring the faculty senate
>passed a resolution asking for $952,000 over two years to bring salaries up
>to minimum levels. and we need to do this for academic affairs staff as
>well.  Finally graduate assistantships, currently being funded from a
>number of sources, including the UC Foundation, need to be rolled into the
>budget at a cost of $537,463 over a two-year period.  In addition, some
>non-salary issues needed to be added to the budget: equipment ($1,640,000).
>This includes the cost of both replacement of equipment and the staff
>needed to maintain equipment, and faculty travel ($500,000), and library
>acquisitions (15% increase in the acquisitions budget + $250,000 over two
>year), academic department operating budgets, which have not had an
>increase in over a decade (10% increase), and Center for Excellence in
>Computer Applications ($505,000).  THEC will not fund CECA beyond this year
>because it has been funding essential technological infrastructure costs
>and not things that a Center of Excellence should be funding.  The total
>comes to $7,000,000 over two years.
>        The Provost identified several possible sources of funding for
>these priorities: enrollment increases, surpluses in scholarship funds
>($1.1 million dollars), $500,000 in unfilled faculty lines, a tuition
>increase, a higher state allocation to higher education, and internal
>reallocations (cutting existing programs).
>
>Questions and Comments from the Floor:
>
>        Mike Russell asked if the Provost's program as outlined above meant
>that there will be no new faculty positions added for next year.  The
>Provost said that it is unlikely that we are going to be adding positions
>when we have vacant positions that still need to be filled.  Mike then said
>that some departments, including his, have a real problem staffing general
>education courses.  Will there be a program to convert adjuncts to
>full-time instructors?  The Provost replied that this is a less costly way
>of meeting student demand but not a good long-term solution.  He would
>rather see new assistant professors with a nine-hour teaching load and some
>research expectations on the tenure track than a assistant professors with
>twelve-hour loads and no research expectations.  However, converting
>adjuncts to full-time instructors is probably the way we will go for the
>next couple of years.
>
>        Leila Pratt said that we will not get $7,000,000 no matter what we
>do.  How would the Provost prioritize his list?  The Provost said we might
>get half of the $7,000,000, and that we could get by with $3.2 million for
>FY 2006  and $3.4 for FY 2007.  He will not prioritize his list because if
>he does, the bottom items will disappear.  Leila asked if that because of
>the contractual obligation to the faculty, the salary costs must be met.
>The Provost said that the answer was yes.
>
>        Verbie Prevost announced that she had agreed to chair the
>Chancellor's Search Committee because this is the first time in the history
>of UTC that a person had not been assigned from Knoxville to chair it and
>that President Peterson has assured her that he will not micromanage the
>search from Knoxville.
>
>The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
>
>Recorded by Marcia Noe, Faculty Secretary
>
>Jooyong Ahn,
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