ࡱ> 02/ bjbj . hh|| OOO111O 1O111XjRY101Fo|F1F1X1 SFOOOOF| : THE FACULTY SENTATE COMMITTEE ON FACULTY CULTURE AT 91 MAKES THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE FACULTY SENATE TO PRESENT TO THE PRESIDENT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE FACULTY CULTURE AT 91: I. EASY TO DO We recommend that: A. The University should create the office/position of university faculty ombudsperson. This person (a full-time tenured member of the faculty) would serve as a direct link between the faculty and the president to communicate quickly and efficiently the facultys concerns to the president. While nominated and elected directly by the faculty for a three-year term, this faculty member will not be a current member of the faculty senate to preserve independence and to prevent any conflicts of interest (but the faculty senate will monitor and run the election). B. The University should create space for faculty collegiality. At the moment perhaps the best option for this would be to expand hours and services of the faculty dining room in JUB. It is essential that faculty should have access to this room without having to make a food purchase. We recommend keycard access to the outside door for faculty and suggest that the space can be turned into a faculty caf with extended hours (so that faculty can congregate there after evening hours for example). There should be a universitylevel committee to monitor and even expand this as well as plan for faculty social and cultural events. C. The University should create a faculty only communication network. At minimum this should include a faculty newsletter, emphasizing upcoming academic, pedagogical, and social events relative to faculty; the placement of kiosks or other public boards around campus and in buildings to convey this information as well; the creation of an informal faculty information center (perhaps in the KUC or onlineor both). D. The University should encourage the Faculty Senate to continue this committee at the Faculty Senate level to follow-up on the committees initial report and monitor its recommendations. II. ESSENTIAL TO DO We recommend that: A. The University should create the office/position of university faculty ombudsperson. This person (a full-time tenured member of the faculty) would serve as a direct link between the faculty and the president to communicate quickly and efficiently the facultys concerns to the president. While nominated and elected by the faculty senate for a three-year term, this faculty member will not be a current member of the faculty senate to preserve to prevent any conflicts of interest. B. Working in conjunction with the family issues sub-committee of the Presidents Commission on the Status of Women, the University should appoint a committee to examine daycare/eldercare issues on campus. The overall goal here should be to establish either an onsite facility for this or at least a program close to campus. Doing this will lessen family responsibilities pressure on our attaining a vibrant faculty culture. C. Increase the facultys sense of value to the university and the administration. There are probably a myriad of ways, many of them small and ordinary, for the administration and administrators to do this, perhaps starting with any move to reduce the amount of paperwork emanating from and required by Cope as well as speeding up the processing of that paperwork once it gets back there. Move away from the one size fits all approach to managing the university and realize that departments and disciplines have different and specific needs and standards. Include more faculty more often in University decisions (the move to eliminate the printed schedule seems to have occurred without much faculty participation and seems to have generated some inefficiency and faculty frustration). Recognize and value the participation of temporary and adjunct faculty more (perhaps by allowing them to compete for grants, and providing themand thus our studentswith better working spaces and accoutrements for teaching). Members of the administration should meet informally more often with departments and faculty groups. D. 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