COMMITTEE: Faculty Welfare
MEETING DATE: November 13, 2008
PERSON PRESIDING: B. Southard
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: K. DuBose, S. McGhee, A. Peery, J. Reisch
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
C. Gold, B. Henze, L. Ingalls, A. Shlapentokh, S. Simpson, J. Toller
GUEST IN ATTENDANCE: L. Lee
ACTIONS OF THE MEETING:
Agenda Item: Approval of minutes
Action Taken: Minutes
of the October 9 2008 meeting were approved as written.
Agenda Item:
Medical Insurance for New Hires
Discussion: Further revisions were proposed to amend Part VI. of the
Faculty Manual. It was agreed that the
sentences 8-10 discussed at the October meeting are not needed in either their
original form or in the revised form approved by the committee at the October
meeting.
J. Reisch moved (A. Peery seconded) to delete the following sentences
(8-10):
"The only exception would be an employee starting in August with a
nine-month contract. This employee will
receive his/her first paycheck in September and therefore coverage would be
effective the first of October. The
employee may start coverage September 1st but must pay the full
cost."
Motion passed unanimously.
Agenda Item: Benefits Satisfaction Survey Report (J. Toller)
Discussion: J. Toller stated that he is still preparing a summary of the
benefits satisfaction survey. He will make this report available soon on the
Faculty Senate website. He also reported that the data set could be made
available upon request to those interested in further analysis of the data.
Agenda
Item: Faculty Salary Study (J. Toller)
Discussion: J. Toller reported that by December 1, the PDF (Personnel
Data File) will be posted and available to faculty and others.
J. Toller explained
that he would like to form a university committee to develop a consistent data
set and procedure for reporting and analyzing faculty salaries. The purpose of
the committee will be to enable faculty and administrators to make informed
judgments and to enable oversight regarding how faculty salary decisions are applied
in practice. He highlighted the goals of "access" and
"transparency."
B. Southard noted the
need to collect this data early, since a fundamental charge of the Faculty
Welfare committee is to report annually to the faculty senate about faculty
salaries.
Agenda Item: Rejection of proposed revisions to
Part VI.I.J. Salary Policies of the ECU Faculty Manual
Discussion: The
committee discussed the chancellor's rejection (dated October 22, 2008) of this
committee's proposed revisions to Faculty Manual Part VI.I.J, approved by the
Faculty Senate February 20, 2007. (See FSR #07-04.)
L. Ingalls explained
that the intention of the proposed revisions was to bring the manual into
conformity with the existing policy. Members were uncertain about the reasons for
the chancellor's rejection of the proposed revisions and the future steps to be
taken by the committee, if any.
L. Lee noted that the
existing version of the manual remains inaccurate, and that some version
resembling the committee's revision still needs to be created to bring the
faculty manual in line with the actual policy, particularly in the first
section, where details of the pay process are described.
J. Toller,
representative of the chancellor, agreed to discuss these revisions with the
chancellor and report back to the committee.
Meeting adjourned at
4:21pm.
Next meeting: December
11, 2008
Items to be discussed:
B. Southard will work to develop an
agenda for the next meeting.
Respectfully
submitted,
Brent Henze