� Minutes of the Faculty Handbook Revision Committee

March 27, 2006

Mason Hall, rm. D5; 3:00 � 4:30 p.m.

Present: �Kevin Avruch, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology, ICAR; Lorraine Brown, Professor of English (CAS) and President of the AAUP Chapter of George Mason University; Rick Coffinberger, Associate Professor of Business and Legal Studies, School of Management, Chair; Martin Ford, Senior Associate Dean, College of Education and Human Development; Dave Harr, Senior Associate Dean, School of Management; Marilyn Mobley, Associate Provost for Education Programs; Suzanne Slayden, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Absent:� ��David Rossell, Associate Provost for Personnel and Budget, ex-officio.

Approval of the Minutes of February 27, 2006:� Changes suggested by the committee will be resubmitted for review.�

Open Forums March 6, 2006 and March 8, 2006:� The minutes are in production and should be forthcoming by the end of this week.� About 12 people attended the Arlington forum � a good morning attendance.� The forum in Prince William County was lightly attended; the campus is developing in terms of size of faculty.�

Communication with Administrators/BOV/Other Committees within the University:

Rick will meet with Rector Dewberry soon to ascertain how the BOV wishes to be informed of our progress.� A committee to study �University Professor� designation is in progress; we will monitor the results of their deliberations and invite a member of this committee to a future Handbook committee meeting in which faculty ranks will be examined.�

Need to define procedure for faculty representation on committees which make decisions affecting faculty:� The establishment of the Faculty Housing Task Force, in which faculty were not initially represented before the decision was reached to construct housing units constitutes an example of this problem.� The Research Council, which contains faculty representatives, does not have a representative/liaison to communicate with the Faculty Senate as they develop proposed policy changes.�

�3.3. Summer Salary:� A packet of materials was distributed to committee members as follows:

-1- Current Faculty Handbook text of Section 3.3.

-2- Memorandum to All Faculty Members from Peter Stearns, Provost and Don Boileau, Chair, The Faculty Senate:� Subject:� Interpretation of the 1994 Faculty Handbook Sec. 3.3; Date:� 2 March 2000

-3- Motion on Summer Session Compensation for Full-Time Faculty Teaching a Second Course adopted by the Faculty Senate 6 October 2004

-4- Report of the Subcommittee on Summer Session Compensation,� (?Fall)� 2000

-5- Summer Salary (Faculty Information Guide)

-6- Interoffice Memorandum from David Rossell, Associate Provost for Personnel and Budget; Subject:� PART-TIME FACULTY SALARY MATRIX (effective Spring Semester 2001) Date: October 16, 2000

-7- Academic Year Appointments (9 Months) (Faculty Information Guide)

-8- Educational Leave with Full or Partial Pay (Faculty Information Guide)

Among the ideas and views expressed in a review of these documents were:

� Summer 2005:� Provost set aside $50,000 to facilitate financing for full-time faculty who wished to teach a second course, no complaints received that any faculty who wished to teach a second course were unable to do so.

� Dedication of surplus revenue from Summer School to 10% guaranteed salary for teaching second summer course.

� Variations in budget practices among schools, as well as amounts allocated to schools for summer courses; use of adjunct faculty as a budget tool; lack of connection between allocation and revenue produced.

� Some faculty unqualified to teach at graduate level; need to offer graduate level classes for cohort base.

� Earlier summer sessions preferred to later sessions by some faculty.

� Sufficient enrollment to offer course; class size assignment may differ between summer and academic year; need to offer same quality of educational experience.

� Inclusion of non-instructional expenses into summer school budget as of two years ago; still surplus monies remain; tuition increase/faculty salary increase.

� No mention of 10% salary for first summer course in Summer Salary (Faculty Information Guide).

� Compensation for laboratory courses low in terms of work generated; credit-hours/compensation best determined at local level; prior to 2 March 2000 Memorandum of Agreement, faculty received 10% for summer laboratory courses for many years.

� Administration willing to listen to specific cases as idiosyncratic within certain set parameters.

� What are origins of percentiles defined in Summer Salary (Faculty Information Guide):.2564 (10/39ths); .3333 (13/39ths)?� To prevent overload?

� Pressure on tenure-track faculty to work and provide service which may interfere with research they may wish to do over the summer.

Kevin Avruch will submit a draft revision for 3.3. Summer Salaries for consideration at our next meeting, Monday April 10, 2006 in Mason Hall, room D5, 3:00 � 4:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Meg Caniano

Clerk, Faculty Senate