Minutes for the Meeting of February 1, 2005

Attending: Peter Hlebowitsh (Chair), Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Ellen Herman, Chris Ogren, and Liz Whitt

New Members: Liz Whitt has replaced David Jepsen as the CRSD representative. Peter is uncertain who will replace Nancy Jackson as the P & Q representative.

Revised data on salaries, accounting for cost of living: Peter presented three graphs of National Rank of Schools of Education in the Big 10, Adjusted to Iowa Cost of Living: (1) Against Average Salary of Professor; (2) Against Average Salary of Associate Professor; and (3) Against Average Salary of Assistant Professor. He compiled the graphs in response to our concerns in December that the average salary at Iowa was lower than at the institutions near us in rank. The new graphs reveal that the cost of living here is so low that we are apparently not underpaid; only Indiana is higher than us at all three levels. The other important salary issue is compression: Is there equity across rank, discipline, gender, and years in rank? Peter will ask Gary Baker about obtaining this data. The larger issue that still remains is why faculty choose to leave the College of Education, which points to exit interviews.

Exit interview data: Peter is planning to discuss exit information with Carolyn Colvin, and will raise the question of whether we can get access to it

Program coordinators’ report: Rahima Wade’s report is posted on the web; Peter will revisit it and follow up with Gary Sasso (the one program coordinator from whom we have not yet heard), and invite him to come to our meeting or give us a message. We reiterated that DEO’s need to continue to pay attention to the issues raised in the report.

The standing curriculum committee: The fist step toward possibly issuing a charge for this committee is learning the past policy and history in this area. Peter provided copies of minutes (supplied by Carolyn Colvin) of the Curriculum Committee’s meetings in 1999. We realized that in October, 1999, shortly before it disbanded, the committee was discussing issues we have raised this year. Micheline reported that, according to Dean Damico, it would be the job of the FAC to decide whether the College needs a curriculum committee once again and, if so, to mandate its creation. We agreed that the issues discussed in 1999 have not been resolved; Peter will examine the old minutes in the interest of drafting a new mandate.

Course duplication concerns: When the Administrative Council meets again (the last two meetings have been cancelled), Peter will share the form that the FAC drafted and raise the question of how to bring the issue of duplication into the course-approval process. The FAC will take direction from the Administrative Council.

New business: Ellie asked where we are with the strategic plan, and Peter answered that reallocation “trumps” everything else. We discussed whether reallocation would have to be in line with the strategic plan.