School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Retreat

Wednesday & Thursday, September 17 and 18, 2014

IAS Retreat Agenda – Wednesday 9:00 – 9:30 - Coffee, etc. 9:30 – 10:00 - Welcome & Introductions (Cheryl & Bill) 10:00 – 12:00 - Unpacking Diversity (Ujima Donalson) 12:00-1:00 - Lunch 1:00-4:00 - Updates (Cheryl) - Scheduling 2.0 (Bonnie) - MAIS/Graduate Faculty Status (Larry) - School By-Laws/ Class A & B Legislation (Michael Forman) - Salary Discussion (Cheryl)

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IAS Retreat Agenda – Thursday NEW IAS FACULTY ONLY 9:00 – 11:00 - Orientation – WCG 322 ALL FACULTY 10:30 – 11:00 - Coffee etc. 11:00-12:00 - Preliminary IAS Structure Assessment Survey Results (Cheryl & Mary) 12:00-1:00 - Lunch 1:00-3:00 - Divisional Meetings 3:00-4:00 - Wrap-up

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New Faculty & Research Staff

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Ellen Bayer – American Literature – Assistant Professor - CAC Elizabeth Bruch – Human Rights – Assistant Professor - PPPA Eric Bugyis – Religious Studies – Lecturer – PPPA Corey Cook – Psychology Research Methods – Lecturer – SBHS Leighann Chaffee - Psychology – Lecturer - SBHS Ed Chamberlain – American Studies - Assistant Professor - CAC Jeremy Davis – Biology – Lecturer - SAM Ann Frost – 1 yr. Lecturer - PPPA Jeramy Gee – 1 yr. Lecturer - PPPA Sarah Hampson – Public Law – Assistant Professor – PPPA Jennifer Harris – Clinical Psychology – Lecturer - SBHS Jutta Heller – Biology – Lecturer - SAM David Hirschberg – Senior Staff Research Scientist at CUW Ingrid Horakova – Math – 1 yr. Lecturer - SAM

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New Faculty & Research Staff

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Asao Inoue – Director of Writing – Associate Professor – CAC Natalie Jolly – Women’s Studies – Assistant Professor - SHS Seyed Karimi – Economics – Lecturer - PPPA Ed Kolodziej – Freshwater Env. Eng. – Associate Professor - SAM Tomas Koontz – Environmental Studies – Associate Professor - SAM Jordan Kott – 1 yr. Lecturer – CAC Erik McDonald – Biology – Lecturer - SAM Danica Miller – Native American Studies – Assistant Professor – SHS Lauren Montgomery – Psychology – Lecturer - SBHS Michelle Montgomery – Native American Studies – Assistant Professor - SHS Anthony Perone – Developmental Psychology – Lecturer – SBHS Megan Schwartz – Biology – Lecturer – SAM Jack Vincent – Biology – Lecturer - SAM

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New Staff Jessica Asplund – Curriculum and Enrollment Analyst Kathryn Anderson – Interim Graduate Advisor Alyssa Boettger – Interim Instructional Lab Coordinator Kelly Kledzik – Curriculum and Time Schedule Specialist Patricia Kruse – Director of Administration & Operations Kristina Powers – Assistant to Dean

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Tenure & Promotion Congratulations!

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David Coon

Joyce Dinglasan- Panlilio

Riki Thompson

School

Not yet implemented – Faculty Council serving this role

Not fully established - MAIS steering com. Is formed

SBHS SAM PPPA CAC SHS

Shared Leadership Council Executive Leadership Team Cheryl Greengrove – Interim Dean Bonnie Becker – Associate Dean – Curriculum Development & Scheduling Emily Ignacio – Associate Dean – Student Affairs Turan Kayaoglu – Associate Dean – Faculty Affairs Patricia Kruse – Director of Administration & Operations Kristina Powers – Assistant to Dean Faculty Council Mary Hanneman – Chair Faculty Council Michael Forman – Chair-elect Faculty Council Division Chairs Culture, Art & Communication (CAC) – Chris Demaske Politics, Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPPA) – Charles Williams Sciences & Mathematics (SAM) – Erica Cline Social & Historical Studies (SHS) – Julie Nicoletta Social, Behavioral & Human Science (SBHS) – Nita McKinley MAIS Graduate Program Coordinator – Larry Knopp

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2014-2015 IAS Faculty Council

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Mary Hanneman – Chair Michael Forman – Chair-elect Ellen Moore – lecturer at large Amos Nascimento – PPPA Loly Alcaide Ramirez - CAC Lauren Montgomery - SBHS Julie Masura - SAM Johann Reusch – SHS Ex-officio: Cheryl Greengrove – Dean Bonnie Becker – Associate Dean Erica Cline – Chair of Chairs Kristina Powers – Assistant to Dean

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Announcements

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• Get your picture taken

• Check and update your personal information

• Check your schedule for the year (http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/tts/)

• Send in your fall syllabus & office hours to IAS front desk (email to iashelp@uw.edu)

• Remember – Portfolios were removed as a graduation requirement but are still being collected for assessment in majors

• Safe Campus & FERPA – get little purple booklet

Academic Alert Goal = Identify & connect struggling students with support services

When faculty member reports a student having academic difficulty: • Academic Advisor contacts student, offers assistance • May include referral to other campus resources (e.g., TLC,

Counseling Center, etc.) Make a referral if you have a student with academic issues such as: • Failed exams and/or quizzes • Missing or incomplete assignments • Attendance issues (tardiness, multiple missed classes) • Lack of participation • Time management challenges More information and link to referral form may be found at: http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/academic-advising-center/academic-alert

2014-2015 Professional Development Funds

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Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors $500 IAS budget + $1500 supplement = $2000 $250 conference fee IAS budget + $250 conference fee supplement = $500 Lecturers $750 for professional development $250 for conference fee

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2014-15 IAS FACULTY MEETINGS – 12:30-2:30 PROBABLE PRESENTATIONS AND/OR VOTES

Autumn Quarter (All regular meetings in BHS 106)

September 17-18 IAS Faculty & Staff Retreat

October 3 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings

November 7 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings Mandatory Tenure & Promotion Cases

December 5 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings Faculty Searches; Non-Mandatory Tenure & Promotion Cases

Winter Quarter (All regular meetings in TBD)

January 9 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings

February 6 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings Faculty Searches; Hiring Priorities

February 27 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings Faculty Searches

March 13 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings Faculty Searches

Spring Quarter (All regular meetings in TBD)

April 3 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings

May 1 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings Reappointment Review Cases

May 15 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings

June 5 IAS and/or Divisional Faculty Meetings

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School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Brown Bag Series, Autumn 2014

First and Third Wednesdays from 3:40-4:40; Faculty Resource Center, WG 308 October 8 Christianity, the Commonwealth, and Education in Britain Elizabeth “Libi” Sunderman, Lecturer October 22 Can antibodies stop Alzheimer's Disease? John Finke. Assistant Professor, SIAS Division of Science and Mathematics November 5 Accessible by Design Sushil Oswal, Assistant Professor, SIAS Division of Culture, Art, and Communication November 19 Labor Radicalism and Chinese Expulsion in Tacoma Charles Williams, Associate Professor SIAS Division of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs December 3 Harmful Algal Blooms in Puget Sound Cheryl Greengrove, Associate Professor and Interim Dean

IAS Office Staff Roles – who does what

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Patricia Kruse – hires all staff and students; budget; grants; facilities logistics; office procedures Kristina Powers – Asst. to Dean; Asst. to Faculty Council; Academic HR Noreen Slease – Budget; Travel reimbursement Jessica Asplund & Kelly Kledzik – Curriculum & Scheduling Jessica Asplund & Jeny McCray – Web Naomi Demmings – Searches Julie Miller - Internships

Campus Committees

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Faculty Assembly Faculty Assembly Chair – Nita McKinley Appointment, Promotion & Tenure – Jim Gawel Academic Policy & Curriculum – Luther Adams; Lauren Montgomery Faculty Affairs – Tyler Budge Executive Council – Kelly Forrest; Amos Nascimento; Janie Miller; Huatong Sun; Haley Skipper Lecturer Affairs – Libi Sunderman; Joanne Clark Dillman; Michael Honey Faculty Senate – Jim Gawel; Loly Alcaide Ramirez University Disciplinary Committee – Carolyn West; Erica Cline Faculty Appeal Board – Carolyn West Strategic Directions Committee – Cheryl Greengrove Faculty Council on University Libraries – Julie Nicoletta Paulsen Visiting Lecture – Nicole Blair

What did last year

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• Established new IAS structure with divisions and representative Faculty Council in preparation for becoming a school - including writing by-laws

• Created and implemented new scheduling & curriculum development processes

• Created and implemented new strategic hiring plan process

• Began systematically reviewing, updating and organizing all IAS policies and procedures

• Established new voting procedure • 14 Faculty Searches

• 4 Staff Searches

• 3 Tenure & Promotion Reviews

School

Not yet implemented – Faculty Council serving this role

Not fully established - MAIS steering com. Is formed

SBHS SAM PPPA CAC SHS

Tenure Track Search Committees

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Security Studies & Conflict Resolution – ad is out Turan Kayaoglu ©, Rob Crawford, Etga Ugar, Lisa Hoffman Regional Economics – ad is out Mary Hanneman ©, Will McGuire, Jutta Heller Community Research Psychology – ad is out Nita McKinley ©, John Finke, Jenny Harris, Jack Vincent Environmental Psychology – ad is out Kima Cargill ©, Leighann Chaffee, Lauren Montgomery, Amos Nascimento Communication Law & Policy – waiting on UWS David Coon ©, Chris Demaske, Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio, Tomas Koontz Applied Math – ad is being finalized and will then be sent to IAS faculty for comment Erica Cline ©, Buck Banks, Peter Horak Hydrology/Ecotoxicology – ad is being written and will then be sent to IAS faculty for comment Hydro ad – Jim Gawel, Faisal Hossain, Julie Masura Ecotox ad – Joel Baker, John Finke, Bonnie Becker

Lecturer Searches

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Film Studies Creative Writing American Government Math Geosciences History Sociology

Staff Searches

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Front Desk replacement for Paul – interviews are in process IAS Advisor – interviews are in process Two new Administrative Coordinators to assist divisions – ads are out Manager of Program Operations in SAM – Lia’s replacement – ad is out Lab coordinator in SAM – Jessica’s replacement – need to get ad out

Tenure & Promotion Committees

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Mandatory: Sushil Oswal – Jenny Quinn ©, Michael Forman, Beth Kalikoff, Joe Sharkey Peter Selkin – Jenny Quinn ©, Buck Banks, Michael Brown (UWS) Non-Mandatory: John Finke – Bonnie Becker ©, Joel Baker, Bill Atkins (UWS)

Curriculum this year

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Math Major Biomedical Science Major

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Scheduling 2.0 (Including a bit about what we accomplished last year)

MAIS

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IAS and campus initiatives this year

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• Advising

• Review TLC

• TCORE

• IAS Mission, Vision & Values

School by-laws - Class A & B Legislation

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The Faculty Council shall provide for: (1) oversight, coordination, and support of the activities of all School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences standing committees, (2) election of the chair and members of the Faculty Council and the chairs of the standing committees, and (3) ongoing assessment of School bylaws and structure. Faculty Council may create special and ad hoc faculty committees. When the faculty of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences are not gathered, the Faculty Council shall act as the legislative body on behalf of the Faculty in all matters of faculty concern in accordance with the following procedures: Two types of legislation shall be distinguished: Class A shall consist of amendments to these bylaws and the standards for tenure, promotion, and faculty assessment. Class B shall consist of all other legislation and resolutions:

Class A: By a simple majority, the Faculty Council may propose amendments to these bylaws. The Faculty Council will forward these proposed amendments to the faculty for its approval as specified in Article IX. Class B: Class B legislation shall refer to all general policies within the purview of the faculty. Class B legislation shall be approved by a simple majority of the Faculty Council and requires no additional action by the faculty. The Chair of the Faculty Council shall notify the Faculty of these actions two weeks prior to their taking effect.

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Need parliamentarian

Need to vote on continuing to have Faculty Council vote on the hiring of part-time lectures and affiliates.

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Salary

• If $ available – Merit; Extra-merit; Compression; Equity & Diversity

• Typically some charge from campus level for distribution

• Faculty Council reviews and discusses with Dean – advisory capacity

• Dean recommends salary increases to VCAA

Recent History: • No raises starting in 2008 • Raises started again in 2013 • Formed faculty group to suggest how to handle raises in 2013

Salary

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From: “Proposal for Process and Criteria for Recommending Salary Adjustments in IAS 2012-2013 Year Process Only For Discussion at February 1, 2013 IAS Faculty Meeting” “While we recognize that our charge was to propose and implement a process for the salary adjustments for the academic year 2012-2013, subject to approval and amendment by the IAS faculty, in the effort to successfully complete our charge we confronted/discussed a number of concerns we believe would prove useful in the creation of the permanent salary adjustment policy.” “We recommend that a discussion on salaries be held each year as part of the September retreat, whether or not funds exist for salary adjustment in that specific year.” Faculty Council discussed this at length and it was decided that we would try this at the retreat this year to see how it works. (Most of the salary discussion happens late winter, early spring quarters and there was some discussion that this might be a more appropriate time for faculty discussion on this topic.) “We recommend that the faculty be provided information on salaries each year. This material should not be limited to salaries alone, but also include an update on extra-merit; tenure and promotion; retention offers; and equity.” There will be a table posted on the IAS faculty share drive that will contain all current salaries, as well as a table on what type of raises everyone received last year.

Cont’d

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“We recommend that detailed information be collected and disseminated on lecturers’ salaries at UWT, across the UW system and nationally to be presented to IAS faculty.” We think Faculty Assembly is working on this, but need to check and request them to do if not already in the works. “We also recommend that the number of years of service by rank be considered in the development of an IAS policy on salary adjustment. This issue is a concern in addressing compression, but also for lecturers, some of whom have not had numerous years rewarded.” The new salary and review policy currently under discussion in the UW Faculty Senate will address this. “We recommend that equity be given consideration in each salary adjustment to avoid the current situation in IAS where the lowest paid faculty in Assistant, Associate and Full Professor rank, are all members of underrepresented groups.” Yes. Faculty Council agrees. “We recommend that in any salary adjustment allocation, that the process implemented seeks to address the widest possible number of faculty whether tenure-track or not.” Yes. Faculty Council agrees. “We recommend specific policies for salary adjustments also consider that for many lecturers the traditional means of salary adjustment (including Compression, T&P, and Equity) do not offer adequate means to adjust lecturers’ salaries.” A number of these issues are being addressed through the competitive hiring process for full-time lecturers. However, Faculty Council realizes that this hiring process does not address the salary issues associated with existing senior lecturers and will take this into account when reviewing salaries this year.

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Salary

• Last year – Director & faculty Council reviewed document above

• Campus charge was 2% across the board

• Faculty Council reviewed on 3% across the board & remainder to address compression & Equity & Diversity

• Goal was all within 95% of average at rank

Extra Merit

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Guidelines to be considered for extrameritorious academic performance

The following examples of extrameritorious performance are not intended as exact criteria, but rather as examples of performance that might be considered extrameritorious. A faculty member’s academic performance represents part of faculty member’s annual salary review that also includes compression and retention considerations as stated in the faculty code. By providing these examples it is hoped that faculty who may not have otherwise considered doing so may be encouraged to nominate themselves for consideration by the faculty for extrameritorious designation.

A faculty member’s profile should be evaluated based on their entire record of achievement over time, though designation of extrameritorious performance will be awarded in one year and may be associated with an end product.

As a basis for being considered extra-meritorious the candidate must fulfill basic faculty responsibilities in all appropriate areas. Tenure line faculty are expected to contribute in the areas of scholarship, teaching and service. Lecturer line faculty are only required to contribute in the areas of teaching and service, but can be considered extra-meritorious based upon evidence in all areas when appropriate. Basic Faculty Responsibilities (See Guidelines for Documenting Faculty Effort for Merit, Tenure, and Promotion)

1. Candidate meets the basic requirement of teaching appropriate number of courses and FTE as

specified for an IAS faculty member and has solid teaching evaluations. 2. Candidate meets the basic requirement of being an active scholar in his/her field. 3. Candidate meets the basic service requirements of being a good IAS (including participation

in required faculty meetings), UWT, UW, professional and community citizen.

Extra Merit (cont’d)

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Examples of Extrameritorious Performance Teaching Candidate has taken on exceptional responsibilities such as:

• significant curriculum development and integration • exceptional student mentoring and support

Scholarship Candidate has significantly advanced the scholarly reputation of IAS by:

• publishing a significant book • publishing a prestigious article • publishing an impressive number of peer-reviewed articles • producing a notable creative work • receiving a highly competitive grant

Service Candidate has:

• contributed major uncompensated program, campus, or university service beyond normal service duties associated with being a faculty member

• coordinated a heavy load of institutional development projects • demonstrated an exceptional level of involvement in community outreach/service

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Extra Merit Process Last Year

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Everything was done online: • documents on share drive • nominations on catalyst • discussion on catalyst • votes on catalyst

THANK YOU!!

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