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College of Arts and Sciences Policy Committee Minutes
Friday, October 11, 2002, 10:15 a.m.
Kirkwood 007
Present: Tom Gieryn (chair), Alex Dzierba, Jim Franklin, Roy Gardner, Susan Gubar, Kevin Hunt, Charles Livingston, Deidre Lynch (BFC liaison), Ellen Dwyer (recorder)
1. The meeting began at 10:15 AM with the approval of the September 27, 2002
minutes.
2. We then turned to items of new business.
a. On October 15, Tom Gieryn will attend the Dean's meeting with chairs and directors. He will present the Policy Committee's agenda for the year to the chairs and directors and ask for their feedback.
b. Committee members were assigned to attend planning meetings between the Dean and College units.
c. The Policy Committee agreed to consider whether heavy service responsibilities hinder the promotion of some faculty from associate to full professor. Several committee members suggested that this burden often is disproportionately heavy for women who are associate professors.
d. Tom Gieryn reported having received a communication to the Committee regarding the human subjects committee's application of federal guidelines. We decided this is a Bloomington Faculty Council issue but we may return to it.
e. We continued our discussion of the questions to be asked as part of the Dean's review and will continue that discussion during our October 18 meeting.
f. We began a discussion of the proposed revision of the College salary policy, with a discussion of the meaning of fixed and flat dollar increments. That conversation will continue in the future.
3. At 10:45, Dean Subbaswamy joined us.
a. He briefly updated the Committee on the situation in Gender Studies. As part
of its transition to departmental status, Gender Studies has invited a number of
faculty already at IUB to move part of their appointments to Gender Studies.
(Those faculty who wish to do so will go through the process outlined last year
by the Policy Committee.) The College still plans to do a national search for a
chair of gender studies, using a committee made up of both Gender studies and
other faculty members and chaired by a faculty member from outside the unit,
which is standard College procedure.
b. He then turned to the salary issue. When high-performing faculty members
with high salaries consistently get percentage increments that are lower than
the average increments widely announced some grow dissatisfied, even to the
point of looking for outside offers. If the Dean then uses some of the salary
monies to compensate them, all departments are hurt (because the overall
salary pool shrinks), even those who give percentage rather than flat dollar
increments.
In place of flat dollar policies, the Dean wants departments to adopt what he views as a rational merit system of percentage increments. This will let the Dean establish a market adjustment pool, instead of tying up a large percentage of its funds in negotiated deals. Chairs then should be proactive in their rewarding of highly-productive faculty members (rather than reactive in responding to outside job offers).
The goal is to keep as many productive faculty members as possible receiving competitive salaries. From the Dean's perspective, a department's salary policy can mandate some fixed dollar increments but it must include a percentage increment for merit. It is important that departments use flexible weighting systems, not static ones.
Several committee members commented on the problems faced by departments whose associate professors are making little more than new assistant professors. When the percentage given departments for salary increments is small, they noted, it is difficult to improve the salaries of those associate professors without giving them larger percentage increments (proportionate to merit) than those awarded highly-paid full professors.
4. The meeting adjourned at 11:45 AM.
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