November 22, 2004

Present: Rob Shakespeare (chair), Judith Anderson, Erik Bucy, Katy Fraser, Jeff Hart, Kevin Hunt, Chuck Livingston, Al Ruesink (recorder), Pam Walters

The meeting convened at 2:30.

Minutes of the meeting of November 15th were amended and approved.

Rob and Al briefed the CPC on a meeting they had last Friday with Swamy to introduce some potential agenda issues.

Dean Subbaswamy joined us at 3:08. Topics discussed included:

• The present College budget situation. It is very tight but the accommodations that have been made should enable us to get through the fiscal year.


• The status of CTE proposals. Conversations with the campus administration continue. The College picture should soon be clear.


• Mission differentiation project. The role of IUB within the system and within the state seems to be both a political and an academic issue.


• Selection and review of department chairs. An annual review by a departmental committee is required. A more thorough review occurs every 3 or 4 years when a term expires. Swamy is working with some departments to encourage them to be more formal in their chair selection process.


• Identification of outstanding senior faculty. Swamy noted that all departments (with a possible exception) use a faculty committee (elected or appointed) for annual merit evaluation, making it possible systematically to identify outstanding faculty. Some CPC members expressed concern that junior faculty have little involvement in the evaluation
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  process and that there may be biases in the College/departmental reward systems.


• Gender bias concerns. Swamy feels that a campus-wide gender bias review should be done every five years or so. (Last was 98-99) The CPC agreed that we need to look for adequate representation (e.g. by field, gender, race) in governance/management when a chair is evaluated.
• Institutional study resources. Swamy noted the lack of institutional data on this campus and feels that the College cannot afford to mount much effort on its own. College staff is stretched very thin.