2008 Woodie Awards
Faculty Senate creates plan to request greater pay increase
By Regis L. Roberts
Issue date: 4/4/08 Section: News
Originally published: 4/3/08 at 5:50 PM CSTLast update: 4/3/08 at 5:48 PM CST
Focht-Hansen said former senate Chair Vernell Walker, who is interim dean of professional and technical education, should have that information.
Although Focht-Hansen wanted to settle on a salary increase during the meeting, it was decided that a better route would be to determine a figure based on Deosdade's findings and present that to Leslie and, ultimately, the board of trustees.
Senators decided to circulate via e-mail some suggestions to be finalized for the next meeting at 2:15 p.m. April 16 in Room 120 of visual arts center.
Chair Terry Walch said basing the compensation increase proposal on hard data would help faculty in getting a desirable increase by justifying that number.
In other business, Librarian Stephen Dingman presented members with information on Faculty Senate elections.
There will be eight positions to fill, including Dingman's and philosophy Professor Richard Oliver's, two members who have reached their term limit of six years.
Nominations are April 15-16, and Dingman encouraged members to nominate faculty they feel are well qualified.
He said the 16 candidates who receive the most nominations will go on to the election April 29-30.
Other business frustrated the senators.
Conrad was reluctant to present his report on the Web Content Management Systems Committee, which wanted to devise software that would make changing faculty Web sites easier.
This would make it so "the people whose department the Web site is for, they can easily go and change their own content," Conrad said. "They don't have to, necessarily, go to a Web master who's located someplace else and provide them with the files."
Political science Professor Christy Woodward-Kaupert said this software sounded like a waste of time because faculty already received training on how to control their Web pages.
Indeed, Conrad said the committee is in place to determine whether the software is needed.
Senators were concerned about the software because they did not want a repeat of the Internet course software Blackboard Vista, which proved unpopular with senators in the fall.
Deosdade wanted to make sure decisions made by the committee would be transparent and reviewed by Faculty Senate.
He did not want these decisions to be made during the summer when Faculty Senate is not in session.
"I'd hate for Blackboard Vista Part 2 to start," he said.
Although Focht-Hansen wanted to settle on a salary increase during the meeting, it was decided that a better route would be to determine a figure based on Deosdade's findings and present that to Leslie and, ultimately, the board of trustees.
Senators decided to circulate via e-mail some suggestions to be finalized for the next meeting at 2:15 p.m. April 16 in Room 120 of visual arts center.
Chair Terry Walch said basing the compensation increase proposal on hard data would help faculty in getting a desirable increase by justifying that number.
In other business, Librarian Stephen Dingman presented members with information on Faculty Senate elections.
There will be eight positions to fill, including Dingman's and philosophy Professor Richard Oliver's, two members who have reached their term limit of six years.
Nominations are April 15-16, and Dingman encouraged members to nominate faculty they feel are well qualified.
He said the 16 candidates who receive the most nominations will go on to the election April 29-30.
Other business frustrated the senators.
Conrad was reluctant to present his report on the Web Content Management Systems Committee, which wanted to devise software that would make changing faculty Web sites easier.
This would make it so "the people whose department the Web site is for, they can easily go and change their own content," Conrad said. "They don't have to, necessarily, go to a Web master who's located someplace else and provide them with the files."
Political science Professor Christy Woodward-Kaupert said this software sounded like a waste of time because faculty already received training on how to control their Web pages.
Indeed, Conrad said the committee is in place to determine whether the software is needed.
Senators were concerned about the software because they did not want a repeat of the Internet course software Blackboard Vista, which proved unpopular with senators in the fall.
Deosdade wanted to make sure decisions made by the committee would be transparent and reviewed by Faculty Senate.
He did not want these decisions to be made during the summer when Faculty Senate is not in session.
"I'd hate for Blackboard Vista Part 2 to start," he said.
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