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Faculty Senate Orientation and Annual Report

Faculty Senate Orientation and Annual Report. 11 th October 2011. Mission Statement. The mission of the MUSC Faculty Senate is to represent the views, needs, and interests of faculty in the educational, research, and service programs of the university. Vision Statement.

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Faculty Senate Orientation and Annual Report

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  1. Faculty Senate Orientation and Annual Report 11th October 2011

  2. Mission Statement • The mission of the MUSC Faculty Senate is to represent the views, needs, and interests of faculty in the educational, research, and service programs of the university.

  3. Vision Statement • As the representative body of the Medical University of South Carolina faculty, the Faculty Senate is the faculty voice whose recommendations reflect and advocate the faculty's collective interests to further the university's mission. 

  4. Meetings • Second Tuesday of each month7:45 - 9:00 AM125 Gazes • When unable to attend a meeting: • Ask alternate from your college to attend • Notify Senate Secretary

  5. Terms & Responsibilities • Length of Term • two years with maximum of three consecutive terms • terms starting October 2011 end in September 2013 • Alternates serve one year • Responsibilities • attend Senate meetings • represent & report back to your constituents • support Senate activities • review Faculty Handbook • serve on Senate Committees or University Committees as requested

  6. Voting in Session • Senators – vote • Alternates – vote if representing a senator absent from own electoral group • Both participate in all senate activities • Selected votes via email

  7. Senate Leadership • Senate Officers • President • Vice President • Secretary • Executive Committee • Reviews issues & sets agenda for Senate meetings • Appoints sub-committee chairs • Voting members • Senate Officers • Representative from each electoral group • Non-voting members • Committee chairs, past President

  8. 2010-2011 Senate Officers President Christopher Davies (COM) Vice-President Mary Mauldin (DLSI) Secretary Bart Sachs (COM)

  9. College of Medicine Clinical Sciences (33 + 8) Basic Sciences (6 + 2) College of Nursing (4 +2) College of Dental Medicine (3 + 2) College of Health Professions (6 + 2) College of Pharmacy (4 +2) Department of Library Science & Informatics (4 + 2) Electoral Groups

  10. Electoral Groups College of Dental Medicine (4 + 2) 2010-12 Gabriel Ingraham VACANT   2011-13 Karen McPherson VACANT   Alternates VACANT   College of Pharmacy (4 + 2) 2010-12 Danyelle Townsend Roger White   2011-13 Lyndsy Meadowcraft Shannon Drayton   Alternates Jason Haney and VACANT 

  11. Electoral Groups College of Health Professions (6 + 2) 2010-12 Paul Jacques Mark Bowden Angela Mund 2011-13 Noelle Moreau Holly Wise Jesse Dean Alternates Anthony Chipas Walter Jones

  12. Electoral Groups College of Nursing (6 + 2) 2010-12 Brian Conner AnneMarie Donato 2011-13 Bonnie Dumas Martina Mueller Alternate Barbara Edlund & VACANT Department of Library Science & Informatics (4 + 2) 2010-12 Laura Cousineau Andrew Gelasco 2011-13 Tom Smith Candace Moorer Alternate Randall Watts Monique Hill

  13. Electoral Groups College of Medicine – Basic Sciences (6 + 2) 2010-12 Christopher Davies Steve Rosenzweig Chiara Luberto (completing Carola Neumann’s term) 2011-13 Jennifer Isaacs Sergey Krupenko Mirko Hennig Alternates Joan Cunningham Corey Mjaatvedt

  14. Electoral Groups College of Medicine – Clinical Sciences (33 + 8) 2010-12 Therese Killeen, Nicholas Koch, Shaun Nguyen, Ira Willner, Laura Carpenter, Kenneth Ruggiero, Del Schutte, Angello Lin, Charles Bratton, E. Short, Barton Sachs, Tod Brown, Frank Stewart, Hainan Lang, Yiannis Koutalos, Marek Schwendt, Yusheng Zhu, Catalin Buhusi, Jerell Brown, & Munazza Anis 2011-13 Alice Boylan, Adam Smolka, Megan Ruppel, D. Detar, Lydia King, Alyssa Rheingold, Arthur Crumbley, Marques Bradshaw, Christopher Lawrence, Aljoeson Walker, Lawrence Comerford, Joe Romagnuolo, Claudio Schonholz & Pamela Chavis Alternates Ellen Riemer, Julie Woolworth, Truman Brown, Abid Irshad, Susan Zayac, Arabinda Das, Jonathan Ralston & Jean Peng

  15. Standing Committees • Governance • Faculty & Institutional Relationships • Institutional Advancement • Communications & Education • Ad hoc as needed Chairs needed !

  16. Governance • Govern the proceedings of the Senate • Conduct Faculty Senate elections • Review the Faculty Senate’s governing documents (Constitution & Bylaws and Handbook) and recommend changes to these documents as deemed appropriate • Call for nominations, establish slates, and conduct elections of officers of the Faculty Senate

  17. Faculty & Institutional Relationships • Develop, review or revise policies & procedures that apply to faculty. Examples: contracts, APT, post-tenure review, equity, conflict of interest, grievance. • Accept and evaluate requests to change the Faculty Handbook.

  18. Institutional Advancement • Monitor major trends in the life of the institution • Request that the Faculty Senate take a position or act on issues of general interest. Example: creation, development, or discontinuation of major units or departments. • Poll faculty opinions • Appointments to University committees • Develop Senate strategic plan

  19. Communication & Education • Communicate the work of the Senate. Examples: organize workshops or retreats addressing themes such as faculty mentoring, promotion & tenure, contracts, and negotiation skills. • Maintain the Faculty Senate web site and ensure that Senate activities are published in University publications.

  20. Modified Faculty (ad hoc) • Examining definitions, career development, mentoring and compensation levels of modified faculty

  21. What we have done? • Feb 2009 – April 2010 – Contracts • 2010 – Standards of Behavior policy rebuffed • December 2010 – New post-review policy (passed by BOT, 10th Dec 2010) • April 2011 – New edition of the Handbook (Paul Jacques & Brooke Fox) • Feb-May – Authorship Guidelines • ~May 2011 – Survey of the faculty re: the Senate (IA, Carol McDougall) • July 2011 – Strategic Plan for Senate passed by Senate • Numerous townhalls and workshops • MUSC Strategic Plan • Funds Flow

  22. Revision of post-tenure review policy Senate ad hoc sub-committee John Bosso (COP), Chair Ed Krug (COM) Christopher Davies (COM) Eleanor Spicer (COM) Teresa Kelchi (CON) Mullen Coover (CDM) Brooke Fox (DLSI) Roger White (COP) Kit Simpson (CHP) Mike Wargovich (COM) Heather Bonilha (CHP) Admin/SenateNegotiation Group Mark Sothmann (Provost) Bruce Elliott (COM) Yusuf Hannun (COM) Philip Hall (COP) John Bosso Chris Davies Mike Wargovich

  23. Strategic Plan for Senate • Developed by IA (Carol McDougall) and passed by the Senate in July 2011 (1) Develop “brand recognition” (graphic/logo)(2) Better system to update Senate web site (3) Increase e-mail communication to faculty, Secretary writes summaries for Senators to report back to their constituents(4) Improve Faculty Senate as support resource for faculty (ombuds, meet & greet)

  24. Townhalls & Workshops • Organized by the Communications & Education Committee • Chairs, Jennifer Welch & Dusti Annan-Coultas February 8 – Townhall on the expansion of USC Medical School in Greenville (Dr. Harris Pastides, USC President; Dr. Michael Amiridis, USC Provost; & Dr. Jerry Youkey, Vice President for Medical and Academic Services, Greenville Hospital System) April 5 – Contracts negotiation Workshop July 27 - Funds Flow Townhall (Mark Sothmann & Lisa Montgomery, VP for FA) August 10 – New faculty orientation (Dusti Annan-Coultas, Mary Mauldin, Angela Mund, Jennifer Welch & Loretta Lynch-Reichert (Assoc. Prov. Office) September 20 - 9/11 Commemorative Lecture and Poster Session (co-sponsored by the Senate and Office of the Provost) October 27 - Promotion & Tenure Workshop

  25. Ad hoc committee – Modified Faculty Yianis Koutalos (Chair) J. Cunningham C. Longmire Flynn P. Kalivas T. Killeen K. Singleton D. Townsend I. Willner • Faculty definitions • How modified faculty operate in different areas at MUSC • Compensation • Opportunities for career development • Can they be included in a common system for contracts?

  26. Ongoing • Ombuds close to completion (Joan Cunningham) • Peer-review committee – modification of process and culture needed • Modified faculty – written report soon • Evaluations (F&IR) • Handbook revisions

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