Faculty Assembly Agendas, Minutes, and Committee Reports

Faculty Support & Fellowship Awards Committee

Tenure, Promotion & Appelas Committee

Fall 2023 Faculty Assembly Agenda/Minutes

Fall Faculty Assembly Agenda

1 p.m., Friday Sept. 1^st 2023, 127 Jabara Hall

Guest: Shirley Lefever, Executive Vice President and Provost
Approval of May minutes
Introduction of new faculty
Senators for this year’s session
Remarks from Dean Hippisley
As may arise

Spring 2024 Faculty Assembly Agenda/Minutes

Spring Faculty Assembly Agenda

10:30 a.m., May 3, 2024, 211 Hubbard

Approval of September minutes
Action: vote on proposal to clarify “special merit” in the case of early promotion
- Lisa Parcell, chair of college T&P committee
Action: vote on proposal to update the college bylaws to reflect recent changes
- Kerry Jones, member of College Council
Tenure, Promotion and Appeals report (Lisa Parcell, committee chair)
Remarks from Dean Hippisley
As may arise

Faculty Support & Fellowship Awards Committee

LAS Curriculum Committee Annual Report AY 23-24

Committee Members:

Carolyn Shaw, Chair – Social and Behavioral Sciences
Twyla Hill - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Rannfrid Thelle – Humanities
Carrie Dickison - Humanities
Mark Arrasmith – Natural Sciences
Li Yao – Natural Sciences
Brien Bolin, Associate Dean – ex officio
Jean Griffith, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – ex officio
Patricia Phillips, Advising – ex officio

The LAS College Curriculum Committee approved 201 proposals.

New Degree Programs KBOR Approved = 1 (Associate of Science degree)
New Courses = 29
Course Revisions = 107
Program Changes approved = 65
New Certificates = 7
- Certificate in Pre-Genetic Counseling
- Certificate in City and County Management (GR)
- Certificate in Economic Development (GR)
- Certificate in Non-profit Management (GR)
- Certificate in Public Finance (GR)
- Certificate in Urban Policy and Innovation
- Certificate in Law Enforcement and Local Government (GR)
Modifications to Existing Certificates = 2
Course modifications to fit new MCLL curriculum: 34
Other Curricular Degree Changes =
New First Year Seminars Approved = 0
Courses with diversity attributes = 46
Undergraduate = 77
500+ level = 59

The committee followed a set of guidelines for new course proposals to help ensure consistency and best practices for proposals. These were communicated to chairs and directors by Brien Bolin.

The committee would also like to thank Associate Dean,Brien Bolin, and Administrative Specialist, Joyce DalPorto-Ward, and Patricia Phillips, Director of Advising, for their administration, perspectives and assistance.

Tenure, Promotion & Appeals Committee

Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee Report for Academic Year 2023-2024

Summary

There were nine members of the LAS College Tenure and Promotion Committee for 2023-24: Alex Bukhgeym - Mathematics and Statistics, Francis Connor – English, Chuck Koeber - Sociology, Robin Henry - History, Ndii Kalomo - Social Work, Mathew Muether – Physics, Lisa Parcell - Communication, Susan Sterrett - Philosophy, Andrew Swindle - Geology. Additionally, Henry, Muether, Koeber, and Sterrett, along with John Hammond - Mathematics and Statistics and Kerry Jones - English, served on the NTT promotion Committee.

Lisa Parcell chaired the TT committee and Mat Muether served as secretary. John Hammond served as chair of the NTT committee and Mat Muether served as the secretary.

The committee met three separate times for a total of approximately 14 hours to organize and to deliberate 15 cases. The committee made positive recommendations for 12 of the candidates. The committee began deliberations on October 31 and completed reviews on November 10, 2022

The committee thanks Associate Dean David Eichhorn for his participation at the organizational committee meeting and listening to deliberations. The committee also thanks Debbie Neill and Joyce DalPorto-Ward in the LAS Dean's office for their efforts in shepherding candidates through the process, collecting and organizing the review materials, and for assistance in creating electronic documents.

Fall 2022 Faculty Assembly Agenda/Minutes

Spring 2023 Faculty Assembly Agenda/Minutes

Spring Faculty Assembly Agenda

10:30 a.m., May 5, 2023, 127 Jabara Hall

Approval of February minutes
Action: Discussion and vote on college requirements revision proposal
College Committee Reports
- Tenure, Promotion and Appeals (Lisa Parcell)
- Faculty Support and Fellowship Awards (Rachel Showstack)
- Curriculum Committee (Eric Wilson)
- College Council, appointment of new Election Commissioner (Robert Owens)
Remarks from Dean Hippisley
As may arise

Spring Faculty Assembly Minutes, May 5, 2023 submitted by Dinorah Azpuru, College Council

The Faculty Assembly took place on Friday, May 5in 127 Jabara Hall, starting at 10:30 a.m.

The first order was to approve the minutes from the last faculty meeting in February, 2023.

Dean Andrew Hippisley introduced the main topic at this assembly: Discussion and Vote on College Requirements Proposal. He explained the importance of the proposal and described in detail the graduation requirements, the underlying principles and the implementation strategy for the competency-based outcomes. In addition, he indicated that this proposal has been in the making for two years and introduced the members of the committee that has been working on it during that period.

In terms of implementation, Dean Hippisley indicated that competency courses are mostly already existing courses and that they will be implemented in two stages: 1. Approval of courses by an ad-hoc implementation committee while we transition to the new requirements; 2) ultimately the approval of competency courses will be taken over by the Curriculum Committee.

Thereafter, several members of the committee presented examples of courses that could be added as part of the competencies (Jay Price, Jodi Simon, TJ Boynton).

The floor was open for questions and several faculty members participated in the discussion, which lasted until 11:45 a.m. The members of the College Graduation Requirements Committee clarified many questions related to the competencies:

One of the clarifications was that the committee suggests a maximum of two competencies per course. Another clarification was that professors do not need to change the way they assess courses or their syllabi. It was also clarified that departments have to decide which courses qualify for the competencies.

Faculty members proceeded to vote on the proposal using a secret written vote. Dr. Dinorah Azpuru, acting president of the College Council, counted the votes and wrote the results in the whiteboard:

50 YES

24 NO

1 NOT LEGIBLE

In view of those results, the proposal was considered approved, and the meeting was adjourned at 12 p.m.

The LAS College Curriculum Committee approved 228 proposals in AY 2022-2023.

New Courses or Course Revisions Approved = 215
Program Changes approved = 197
New Certificates = 2
- Certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies
- Certificate in Spanish for Professionals
Modifications to Existing Certificates = 0
New Degree Programs KBOR Approved = 0
Other Curricular Degree Changes = 10
MA in English
MA in History
MA in History-Thesis Program in Local and Community History
BS in Forensic Sciences
BA in Political Science
BA in Philosophy with Concentration in Analytic Reasoning
BS in Homeland Security
Dual/Accelerated BA to Masters in English
MA Spanish
MS in Mathematical Foundations of Data Analysis

New First Year Seminars Approved = 3

Members

Laila Ballout - History
Mark Arrasmith - Math
Doug English - Chemistry
Carrie Dickison -
Jean Griffith
Carolyn Shaw – Political Science
Eric M. Wilson, Chair - Elliott School of Communication
Patricia Phillips – Advising
Brien Bolin – LAS Assistant Dean

The committee developed a set of guidelines for new course proposals to help ensure consistency and best practices for proposals. These were communicated to chairs and directors by Brien Bolin.
The committee would also like to thank Associate Dean for Student Success Brien Bolin, and Administrative Specialist, Joyce DalPorto-Ward, and Patricia Phillips, Director of Advising, for their administration, perspectives and assistance.

Faculty Support & Fellowship Awards Committee

Tenure, Promotion & Appelas Committee

Final Report of the Fairmount College Council 2021-2022 Submitted by Enrique Navarro

Members of the Fairmount College Council, 2021-2022

Department of Anthropology: Donald Blakeslee

Department of Biology: James Beck

Department of Chemistry: Katie Mitchell-Koch

Elliot School of Communication: Ian Tennant

School of Criminal Justice: Martha Smith

Department of English: Darren DeFrain

Department of Geology: William Bischoff

Department of History: Craig Torbenson

Intensive English Language Center: TBD

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics – Mathematics: Yuan Liu

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics – Physics: Kapil Albal

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures: Enrique Navarro, Chair

Department of Philosophy: Brian Hepburn

Department of Political Science: Michael Hall, Subcommittee Chair

Department of Psychology: Carryl Baldwin, Subcommittee Chair

Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs: Xiaoheng Wang, Subcommittee Chair

School of Social Work: Jeoung Min Lee

Department of Sociology: Jenny Pearson

Department of Women's Studies: Deborah Gordon

We would like to express our thanks to all members of the College Council for their commitment to the Fairmount College and its mission for shared governance; we also would like to recognize Dean Andrew Hippisley and Senior Assistant Dean Cheryl Miller for their continued support of the College Council. In this report, I would like to provide a brief summary of the College Council’s work during the past academic year (2021-2022).

The Council held no meetings in the Fall semester and met three times in the Spring Semester. A Chair and a Secretary were elected in the first meeting. Subcommittees were established in the second meeting, and subcommittee chairs were elected. The third meeting was devoted to the main issue the College Council has worked on this academic year:

LAS Graduation Requirements

As part of the effort to revisit LAS graduation requirements, six members of the College Council continue participating in bi-weekly meetings in the task force that is set to explore requirement revisions. The College Council held its final meeting of the year the first week of May 2022. During that final meeting, Dean Hippisley gave an update on the work done by the ad-hoc committee. Given that no finalized proposal was presented, the Council took no further action.

Faculty Support and Fellowship Awards Committee

The LAS College Curriculum Committee approved 119 proposals in AY 2021-2022.

New Courses or Course Revisions Approved = 89
Program Changes approved = 30
New Certificates = 4
- Certificate in Health Equity and Leadership
- Certificate in Asian Studies
- Certificate in Film Studies
- Certificate in Global Competency
Modifications to Existing Certificates = 1
- Certificate in Great Plains Studies – not yet approved
New Degree Programs KBOR Approved = 2
- Change Women’s Studies to Women’s Ethnicity & Intersectional Studies
- BA in American Sign Language
Other Curricular Degree Changes = 16
- MS in Biological Sciences
- BA in Philosophy with Concentration in Ethics
- BA in English
- PhD in Applied Mathematics
- BA in Philosophy-Concentration in World Philosophy
- BA in Applied Linguistics
- MA in Criminal Justice
- BA in Philosophy-Concentration in Pre-Law
- BA in Communication-Journalism & Media Production Emphasis
- BA in Communication-Electronic Media Emphasis
- BA in Communication-Integrated Marketing Communication Emphasis
- MA in Communications
- BA in Economics
- BS in Chemistry-ACS Biochemistry Option
- MS in Mathematical Foundations of Data Analysis
New First Year Seminars Approved = 8

Members

Laila Ballout - History
Thomas (T.J.) Boynton/Daniel Fonfria-Perera - English
Doug English - Chemistry
Holger Meyer - Physics
Jodie Simon - Sociology
Eric M. Wilson, Chair - Elliott School of Communication
Patricia Phillips – Advising
Brien Bolin – LAS Assistant Dean

The committee developed a set of guidelines for new course proposals to help ensure consistency and best practices for proposals. These were communicated to chairs and directors by Brien Bolin.
The committee would also like to thank Associate Dean for Student Success Brien Bolin, and Administrative Specialist, Joyce DalPorto-Ward, and Patricia Phillips, Director of Advising, for their administration, perspectives and assistance.

Faculty Support and Fellowship Committee Report May 2022 Prepared by Rachel Showstack

Committee members: Carryl Baldwin, Buma Fridman, Holger Meyer, Jodie Hertzog, Rachel Showstack (Chair)

Committee Report

In Nov. 2021, the committee approved and ranked nine sabbatical applications.

When reviewing the sabbatical applications for academic year 2022-2023, the Faculty Support and Fellowship Committee made several recommendations to improve the process in the future:

College can provide guidance to applicants on writing for scholars who are not specialists in their field. The applicants should be advised to use accessible language in their project summaries.
We each used our own selection criteria, and this process could be standardized. [1]
It may be beneficial to require that faculty applying for a second sabbatical include their final report from their previous sabbatical.

[1] Some criteria that were used by committee members were: feasibility of project; outside funding; value of project to applicant’s teaching, field of study, or research trajectory; need for sabbatical to complete project; accessibility of summary; inclusion of supporting materials, such as acceptance letters for visiting scholar positions.

College Requirements Committee

Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee Report for Academic Year 2021-2022

Summary

There were ten members of the LAS College Tenure and Promotion Committee for 2021-22: Andi Bannister – Criminal Justice, Susan Castro– Philosophy, Steve Brady – Mathematics and Statistics, Maojun Gong - Chemistry, Robin Henry - History, Twyla Hill – Sociology, Kerry Jones - English, Francis Connor – English, Mathew Muether – Physics, Sam Yeager – Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs.

Twyla Hill chaired the committee and Susan Castro served as secretary.

The committee met three separate times for a total of approximately 6 hours to organize and to deliberate three cases. The cases were comprised of three candidates: one assistant professor candidate for promotion and tenure, one candidate for promotion to full professor, and one candidate for Professor Incentive Review (PIR). (This year there were no non-tenure track candidates for promotion.) The committee first met on September 28, 2021 for an organizational meeting, began deliberations on October 28, and completed reviews on November 4, 2021.

The committee thanks Associate Dean David Eichhorn for his participation at the organizational committee meeting and listening to deliberations. The committee also thanks Senior Assistant Dean Cheryl Miller for her efforts in shepherding candidates through the process and collecting and organizing the review materials, and Joyce DalPorto-Ward for assistance in creating electronic documents.

Results

The committee made positive recommendations for all three of the candidates. Dean Hippisley’s recommendations for the cases followed those of the committee.

The University committee met in January and upheld the recommendations made by the College committee and the Dean in all cases.

College Requirements Committee Report Presented by Andrew Hippisley, May 6, 2021

Context:

• Gen Ed revisions, the sense that we need to update what we have

• Questioning the value proposition of a four-year degree

• Questioning the value proposition of a liberal arts degree

• Generation Z

The Committee

• College Council: Jeff Hayton (History), Brian Hepburn (Philosophy), Dasha Shamrova (Social Work), Don Blakeslee (Anthropology), Lop-Hing Ho (Math), Bill Bischoff (Geology)

• Curriculum Committee: Eric Wilson (Chair), Jodie Simon (Sociology), TJ Boynton (English), Holger Meyer (Physics)

• Chairs: Jay Price (History), Jeff Jarman (Communication), Wilson Baldridge (MCLL), Peer Moore-Jansen (Anthropology)

• Dean’s office: Brien Bolin (Associate Dean for Student Success), Patricia Phillips (LAS Director of Advising)

Guiding Principles

• The goal to educate the whole

• The goal to prepare students to enter the job market

• The goal to make getting a degree from LAS not burdensome

Become more

• Pursuing truth

• Instilling a joy of learning

• Developing virtuous citizens

• Preparing students for careers

• Understanding the power of the liberal arts

• Communicating effectively and empathetically

• Acquiring numerical literacy

• Reasoning scientifically

• Acquiring technological skills

• Demonstrating cultural and diversity competence

• Familiarity with a foreign language

• Understanding the values of civic and social citizenship

• Appreciating disciplinary integration

• Applying learning in a range of domains

Reasoning scientifically

• Deducing relationships (qualitatively or quantitatively) between cause and effect and the relative importance of multiple causes, basing conclusions on firm evidence rather than dogma, building and testing models of (small parts of) the reality surrounding us, is the systematic way of analyzing any situation within and outside of the natural sciences. It is a prerequisite to making informed decisions and protects against being easily manipulated.

Key Questions

• Educating the whole and career readiness

• Identifying competencies

• Working out how competencies are met

• Progression: LAS requirements ≠ Gen Ed

• Being able to answer the question: why?

Unaddressed Questions

• How many credits?

• Which courses?

• How much double dipping – major / gen ed?

• …

LAS Graduation Requirements – Competencies Framework – April 30, 2021

Competency	Class	Purpose	Credit Hours
I. Introduction	Introduction to Fairmount College	course to teach students how the various disciplines in the college arrive at truth	3
II. Communications	reading/writing	three courses designed to improve students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills	3
	reading/writing		3
	speaking		3
III. Quantitative Literacy	numeracy	course designed to teach students the fundamentals of numeracy	3
IV. Scientific Reasoning	natural sciences	course designed to teach students scientific reasoning in the natural sciences	3
	social sciences	course designed to teach students scientific reasoning in the social sciences	3
V. Technology and Innovation	technology	course designed to teach students how to use technology and liberal arts studies	3
VI. Cultural Expression and Diversity	diversity	course designed to teach students how to integrate diversity into liberal art studies	3
	cultural expression	course designed to teach students how to understand and appreciate cultural difference	3
VII. Foreign Languages	foreign language	course designed to introduce students to the study of a foreign language	5
VIII. Civic and Social Citizenship	civics	course designed to teach students about past and present civics	3
	social engagement	course designed to teach students how to understand and solve social issues	3
IX. Interdisciplinary Integration	interdisciplinary	course designed to teach students how to integrate different disciplinary approaches	3
X. Applied Learning	capstone	course designed as a culmination project (internship, experiment, research paper, etc.)	3
		TOTAL	49

Course Examples - examples of courses which could satisfy each competency

Competency	Course Examples
I. Introduction	CHEM 103: Introductory General, Organic, and Biochemistry CJ 191: Introduction to Criminal Justice PHIL 100: Meaning of Philosophy SOC 111: Introduction to Sociology
II. Communications	COMM 312: Nonverbal Communication ENGL 340: Shakespeare HIST 501: American Colonies ANTH 352: Linguistic Anthropology
III. Quantitative Literacy	MATH 242: Calculus I PHYS 195: Introduction to Modern Astronomy STAT 370: Elementary Statistics PSY 301: Psychological Statistics
IV. Scientific Reasoning	ANTH 318: Psychological Anthropology BIOL 210: General Biology GEOL 310: Oceanography PHYS 313: Physics for Scientist I
V. Technology and Innovation	ENGL 379: Storytelling, Video Games, and Literature HNRS 305J: Minds and Machines HNRS 305R: Philosophy and Space Exploration WSUE 102B: Innovations of World War II
VI. Cultural Expression and Diversity	WOMS 361: Gender, Work and Culture SOC 534: Urban Sociology ANTH 335: Archaeology of North America ENGL 365: African American Literature
VII. Foreign Languages	FREN 111: Elementary French I GERM 111: Elementary German I SPAN 111: Elementary Spanish I JAPN 111: Elementary Japanese I
VIII. Civic and Social Citizenship	HIST 132: US History since 1865 POLS 121: American Politics PSY 410: Substance Use & Abuse SCWK 541: Women, Children and Poverty
IX. Interdisciplinary Integration
X. Applied Learning

Final Report of the Fairmount College Council 2020-2021 Submitted by Jeff Hayton

Members of the Fairmount College Council, 2020-2021

Department of Anthropology: Donald Blakeslee

Department of Biology: James Beck

Department of Chemistry: Katie Mitchell-Koch, Subcommittee Chair

Elliot School of Communication: Ian Tennant

School of Criminal Justice: Martha Smith

Department of English: Darren DeFrain

Department of Geology: William Bischoff

Department of History: Jeff Hayton, Chair

Intensive English Language Center: Aimee Leisy

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics – Mathematics: Lop-Hing Ho

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics – Physics: Nick Solomey

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures: Enrique Navarro, Subcommittee Chair

Department of Philosophy: Brian Hepburn, Secretary

Department of Political Science: Brian Amos

Department of Psychology: Carryl Baldwin, Subcommittee Chair

Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs: Xiaoheng Wang

School of Social Work: Dasha Shamrova

Department of Sociology: Chase Billingham (Fall), Chuck Koeber (Spring)

Department of Women's Studies: Deborah Gordon

We would like to express our thanks to all members of the College Council for their commitment to the Fairmount College and its mission for shared governance; we also would like to recognize Dean Andrew Hippisley and Senior Assistant Dean Cheryl Miller for their continued support of the College Council. In this report, I would like to provide a brief summary of the College Council’s work during the past academic year (2020-2021) which was concerned primarily with four main issues:

Dean’s Evaluation The College Council is charged with conducting an evaluation of the dean every three years. In Fall 2020, a subcommittee was formed to administer the evaluation survey. Out of 210 faculty who were invited to participate in the evaluation, 103 responded (49.04% response rate), and 58 offered comments. Results were forwarded to the Dean and Provost Office.

LAS Graduation Requirements – LAS Graduation Comparisons As part of the effort to revisit LAS graduation requirements, the College Council formed a subcommittee to investigate requirements at similar institutions. The subcommittee analyzed the requirements of 13 institutions (peers, aspirational, and Kansas schools). The subcommittee aggregated the data and presented its findings to the College Council in October 2020.

LAS Graduation Requirements – Faculty Survey As part of the effort to revisit LAS graduation requirements, the College Council formed a subcommittee to poll LAS faculty on their perceptions of LAS graduation requirements in March 2021. Out of 197 faculty invited to participate in the survey, 79 responded (40.1% response rate). The questions asked faculty to assess whether LAS graduation requirements effectively taught students core LAS skills (critical thinking, interpreting information, communicating orally and in writing, problem solving, etc.). The responses show that LAS faculty are generally satisfied with the requirements, although it seems there is room for improvement, especially related to writing skills. Survey results also revealed that faculty are less satisfied with college-wide efforts at informing students about the value of an LAS education, and student understandings of these values.

LAS Graduation Requirements – Committee As part of the effort to revisit LAS graduation requirements, six members of the College Council participated in bi-weekly meetings in the task force exploring requirement revisions.

Faculty Support and Fellowship Awards Committee

The LAS College Curriculum Committee approved 93 proposals in AY 2020-2021.

• New Courses or Course Revisions Approved = 58

• Program Changes approved = 52

• New Certificates = 2

Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Certificate in Latin Amer. & Latinx Studies (Modifications)

• Modifications to Existing Certificates = 4

English Literature and Composition Pedagogy

Certificate in Great Plains Studies

Certificate in Museum Studies

Certificate in Substance Use and Abuse

• New Degree Programs KBOR Approved - 2

MS In Mathematical Foundations of Data Analysis

BA in Applied Linguistics

• Other Curricular Degree Changes - 2

Legal Education Accelerated Degree (LEAD)

BS in Mathematics – Data Science Emphasis

• New First Year Seminars Approved = 17

Members

Laila Ballout - History

Thomas (T.J.) Boynton - English

Doug English - Chemistry

Holger Meyer - Physics

Jodie Simon - Sociology

Eric M. Wilson, Chair - Elliott School of Communication

The committee developed a set of guidelines for new course proposals to help ensure consistency and best practices for proposals. These were communicated to chairs and directors by Brien Bolin.

The committee would also like to thank Associate Dean for Student Success Brien Bolin, and Administrative Specialist, Joyce DalPorto-Ward, and Patricia Phillips, Director of Advising, for their administration, perspectives and assistance.

FACULTY SUPPORT AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS (FSFA) COMMITTEE REPORT 2020-2021

Committee Members: Darren DeFrain (Chair), Richard Armstrong, Buma Fridman, Rachel Showstack, Kathleen Perez, Holger Meyer

The Committee met on October 2, 2020 to review and rank 10 applications for sabbatical for the 20212022 academic year. The committee noted that this year’s sabbatical applications were strong, varied, and uniformly displayed great promise for WSU faculty research. The committee ranked the applications according to merit. All 10 applications were unanimously recommended by the committee for sabbatical. The committee’s rankings and subsequent were forwarded to the dean.

Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee Report for Academic Year 2020-2021

Summary:

There were eleven members of the LAS College Tenure and Promotion Committee for 2020-21: Andi Bannister – Criminal Justice, Noell Birondo – Philosophy, Andy Bowman – Intensive English Language Center, Steve Brady – Mathematics and Statistics, Maojun Gong - Chemistry, Dave McDonald – Biology, Robin Henry - History, Twyla Hill – Sociology, Kerry Jones – English, Mary Waters – English, Sam Yeager – Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs.

Twyla Hill chaired the committee and Noell Birondo served as secretary.

Dave McDonald served as chair of the Non-Tenure Track (NTT) committee with Andi Bannister, Andy Bowman, Kerry Jones, and Sam Yeager.

The committee met six separate times for a total of approximately 15 hours to organize and to deliberate twelve cases. The cases comprised of four candidates for non-tenure track promotion, two assistant professor candidates for promotion and tenure, four candidates for promotion to full professor, and two candidates for Professor Incentive Review (PIR). The committee first met on September 11, 2020 for an organizational meeting, began deliberations on October 26, and completed reviews on November 6, 2020.

The committee thanks Associate Dean David Eichhorn for his participation at the organizational committee meeting and listening to deliberations. The committee also thanks Senior Assistant Dean Cheryl Miller for her efforts in shepherding candidates through the process and collecting and organizing the review materials, and Joyce DalPorto-Ward for assistance in creating electronic documents.

Results:

The committee made positive recommendations for all four of the candidates seeking nontenure track promotion. Dean Hippisley’s recommendations for these cases followed those of the committee.

The committee made positive recommendations for two candidates seeking tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. The Dean’s recommendations followed those of the committee.

The committee recommended three candidates for promotion to Full professor be promoted. The Dean’s recommendations for all cases followed those of the committee.

The committee recommended two candidates for PIR be awarded. The Dean’s recommendation followed those of the committee.

The University committee met in January and upheld the recommendations made by the College committee and the Dean in all cases.

Final Report of the Fairmount College Council 2019-2020 Submitted by Jens Kreinath, Co-Chair

Members of the Fairmount College Council, 2019-2020

Department of Anthropology: Jens Kreinath, Co-Chair

Department of Biology: James Beck

Department of Chemistry: Katie Mitchell-Koch

Elliott School of Communication: Ian Tennant

Community Affairs: Marti Smith

School of Criminal Justice: Yumi Suzuki

Department of English: Darren DeFrain

Department of Geology: William Bischoff

Department of History: Jeff Hayton

Intensive English Language Center: Aimee Leisy

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics – Mathematics Representative: Lop-Hing Ho, Stephen Brady

Department Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics – Physics Representative: Nick Solomey

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures: Brigitte Roussel, Secretary

Department of Political Science: Brian Amos

Department of Psychology: Carryl Baldwin

Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs: Mark Glaser

School of Social Work: Dasha Shamrova

Department of Sociology: Chuck Koeber

Department of Women’s Studies: Deborah Gordon, Co-Chair

We would like to express our thanks to all members of the College Council for their commitment to the Fairmount College and its mission for shared governance; we also would like to recognize most notably Dean Andrew Hippisley and Senior Assistant Dean Cheryl Miller for their continued support of the College Council. In this report I would like to provide a brief summary of the College Council’s work during the past academic year.

Changes to the LAS Graduation Requirements In the fall of 2019, the University decided to reduce the minimal general education requirements from 42 to 36 credit hours. Upon this decision, the College Council took up the discussion of these changes and reviewed the existing specifications in the course catalog for coherence and consistency. A subcommittee consisting of two representatives from each of the three subfields of the college was formed and met several times during spring 2020 to articulate a response of the College Council to the new requirements. In collaboration with Patricia Phillips (as the director of the LAS advising office), the subcommittee drafted the proposed changes in the language of the existing course catalog to align the wording with the new university graduation requirements. In the first week of March, the proposed changes were distributed to all members of the College Council and voted upon in its subsequent meeting on March 16. After consultation with Dean Hippisley and presenting these changes to the members of the Curriculum Committee and at the Chairs and Directors’ meeting, the College Council is bringing the proposed changes to the full body of the faculty to be voted on at the General Assembly on May 8.

Faculty Suport and Fellowship Awards Committee

Curriculum Committee Report 2020

The LAS College Curriculum Committee approved 137 proposals in AY 2019-20. The numbers breakdown was as follows:

New Courses or Course Revisions Approved = 56
Program Changes approved = 55
New Certificates = 2
- Certificate in Space Sciences
- Certificate in Environment and Sustainability
New Degree Programs
- MS in the Foundations of Data Analytics
- BA in Applied Linguistics
New First Year Seminars Approved = 9

2019-2020 LAS College Curriculum Committee members:

Donald Blakeslee - Anthropology

George Bousfield -Biological Sciences

T.J. Boynton - English

Doris Chang – Political Science

Jeff Jarman -Elliott School of Communication

Robert Owens, Chair - History

Daniel Fonfria-Perera - MCLL

Samuel Yeager -Hugo Wall School

Tianshi Lu - Mathematics

Colette Burke - Geology

Kandatege Wimasalena- Chemistry

I would also like to thank Associate Dean for Curriculum Brien Bolin, and Administrative Assistant, Joyce DalPorto-Ward

Sincerely,

Robert M. Owens, Professor of History

FACULTY SUPPORT AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS (FSFA)

COMMITTEE REPORT 2019-2020

Committee Members: Darren DeFrain (Chair); Richard Armstrong; Buma Fridman; Robin Henry; Kathleen Perez; Bin Shuai

The Committee met on October 9, 2019 to review eight applications for sabbatical for the 2020-2021 academic year. Bin Shuai and Robin Henry were not able to attend the meeting as scheduled, but both submitted their recommendations for rankings prior to the meeting date and their input was incorporated into the final tallies.

The committee ranked the applications according to merit. All eight applications were unanimously recommended by the committee for sabbatical. The committee’s rankings and subsequent were forwarded to the dean.

Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Tenure and Promotion Committee

Report for Academic Year 2019-2020

Summary

There were ten members of the LAS College Tenure and Promotion Committee for 2018-19: Jason Ferguson – Physics, Andi Bannister – Criminal Justice, Mary Waters – English, David McDonald – Biology, Lisa Parcell – Elliott School of Communication, Robert Weems – History, Susan Castro – Philosophy, Twyla Hill – Sociology, Kerry Jones – English

Jason Ferguson chaired the committee and Lisa Parcell served as secretary.

Lisa Parcell served as chair of the NTT committee with Andi Bannister, Susan Castro, David McDonald and Kerry Jones.

The committee met six separate times for a total of approximately 20 hours to deliberate seventeen cases. The cases comprised of nine assistant professor candidates for promotion and tenure, four candidates for non-tenure track promotion, two candidates for promotion to full professor, and two candidates for PIR. The committee first met on 16 October for an organizational meeting and began deliberations on 29 October, and completed reviews on 8 November.

The committee thanks Dean Hippisley for his participation at the organizational committee meeting and Associate Dean Eichhorn for listening to deliberations. The committee also thanks Senior Assistant Dean Cheryl Miller for her efforts in collecting and organizing the review materials and Debbie Neill for assistance in scheduling meetings.

Results

The committee made positive recommendations for all four of the candidates seeking non-tenure track promotion. Dean Hippisley’s recommendations for these cases followed those of the committee. Note: One candidate did leave the University due to health reasons and did not go before the University committee.

The committee made positive recommendations for eight candidates seeking tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. The Dean’s recommendations were positive for all cases.

The committee recommended both of the candidates for promotion to Full professor be promoted. The Dean’s recommendations followed those of the committee.

The committee recommended one of two candidate for PIR be awarded. The Dean’s recommendation followed that of the committee.

The University committee met in January and upheld the recommendations made by the College committee and Dean in all but one of the cases. The Provost’s recommendations followed those of the University committee.

Final Report of the Fairmount College Council 2018-2019

Submitted by Chase Billingham, Chairperson Members of the Fairmount College Council, 2018-2019

Department of Anthropology: Jens Kreinath Subcommittee Chair

Department of Biology: James Beck

Department of Chemistry: Katie Mitchell-Koch

Elliott School of Communication: Kevin Hager, Ian Tennant

School of Criminal Justice: Yumi Suzuki

Department of English: Darren DeFrain, Carrie Dickison

Department of Geology: William Bischoff, Secretary

Department of History: Jeff Hayton

Intensive English Language Center: Aimee Leisy

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics: Mathematics Representative--Lop-Hing Ho,

Department Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics: Physics Representative--Nick Solomey

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures: Brigitte Roussel, Subcommittee Chair

Department of Philosophy: Brian Hepburn, Subcommittee Chair

Department of Political Science: Dinorah Azpuru, Heather Ondercin, Michael Hall

Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs: Mark Glaser

School of Social Work: Kyoung Lee

Department of Sociology: Chase Billingham, Chairperson

Department of Women’s Studies: Deborah Gordon

I would like to thank the members of the College Council for their dedicated commitment to Fairmount College and their support for representative governance and oversight of the college, and we would all like to recognize Dean Andrew Hippisley and Senior Assistant Dean Cheryl Miller for their continued support of the College Council and its mission. In the remainder of this report I will provide a summary of the most significant developments in the College Council over the past year.

Promotion Policies for Non-Tenure Track Faculty In the 2017-2018 academic year, the university began the process of evaluating non-tenure track teaching faculty for the purpose of providing promotions and pay raises. In the first year, this process was undertaken by an ad hoc committee, but a more permanent committee structure and process was required. To that end, members of the College Council, under the leadership of subcommittee chair Jens Kreinath, drafted language to amend the College Governance Document creating a Non-Tenure Track Promotion Committee, a new committee with a structure and function parallel to the College Tenure and Promotion Committee. This proposal was presented to the Faculty Assembly during the January 24 meeting, and it was approved by the faculty.

Faculty Workload and Specialization of Faculty Streams The Kansas Board of Regents has tasked all KBOR institutions to investigate the possibility of implementing specialized faculty workload streams, with some faculty roles emphasizing research and other faculty roles emphasizing teaching. The university administration presented this issue to the Faculty Senate, and the individual colleges have been asked to consider the issue, as well. In Fairmount College, this task was undertaken by a College Council subcommittee chaired by Brigitte Roussel. Brigitte and her subcommittee sent requests to all LAS departments asking for input on faculty perspectives on this matter, and drawing on the results of that inquiry, they submitted a comprehensive report to the full College Council. The main finding of this report was that, overall, LAS faculty are satisfied with the prevailing workload distribution expected of tenured and tenure-track faculty (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service). While faculty value having flexibility in that workload distribution, most respondents were wary of strict separation of faculty into discrete workload streams. That full report was discussed and formally accepted by the College Council, and it is available for anyone to read on the website for Fairmount College.

Creation of the Dean’s Advisory Council At the beginning of the academic year, Dean Hippisley asked the College Council to consider the creation of a new, smaller committee of faculty that would serve as an advisory body for the dean on matters related to budget, hiring, and other executive issues. A College Council subcommittee chaired by Brian Hepburn undertook an extensive investigation. They looked into the structure and function of LAS college advisory councils at peer institutions, and produced a report outlining the pros and cons of the current College Council structure, and the ways in which our College Council serves a unique role in terms of promoting faculty input in college governance. Drawing on the results of that inquiry, and in coordination with the Dean, Brian and his subcommittee drafted language to amend the College Governance Document to create a new college committee, the Dean’s Advisory Council. This council will consist of six LAS faculty nominated by division and elected by the entire college. The creation of this new advisory council will require altering the mission and function of the existing College Council, but the members of the College Council felt that the current Council plays an important role in College governance, and they were reluctant to eliminate it entirely. The text of this amendment was presented to the full College Council for a vote, and it was approved that we recommend this amendment to the full Faculty Assembly. And so, today we present this amendment to you. Everyone received this information in the e-mail containing the documents for today’s meeting. We will take two votes today. The first vote will be to create this new Dean’s Advisory Council and to incorporate the new language regarding this committee into the College Governance Document. The second vote will be to amend the College Governance Document to modify the tasks charged to the College Council.

Results of College Elections College Tenure & Promotion Committee (elected to three-year terms) Humanities – Susan Castro, Philosophy (will also serve on NTT promotion committee) Social and Behavioral Sciences – Twyla Hill, Sociology Natural Sciences and Mathematics – To be appointed by dean College Non-Tenure Track Promotion Committee (elected to three-year terms) Kerry Jones, English, elected as NTT representative College Faculty Support and Fellowship Awards Committee (elected to three-year terms) Social and Behavioral Sciences – Kathleen Perez, Sociology Natural Sciences and Mathematics - Buma Fridman, Mathematics College Admissions and Exceptions Committee (elected to three-year terms) Humanities – George Dehner, History

Faculty Support and Fellowship Awards Committee

LAS College Curriculum Committee Final 2018-2019 report to LAS Faculty/May 10, 2019

During the past year, the LAS Curriculum Committee reviewed and approved 62 LAS Curriculum proposal forms. [This does not count the dozen CIM forms pending when this report was written.]

• Chemistry - 3

• Criminal Justice - 10

• English - 9

• Forensic Sciences - 1

• History - 1

• Homeland Security - 4

• Linguistics - 2

• Mathematics - 3

• Philosophy - 1

• Psych - 2

• Social Work - 4

• Women's Studies - 9

• Ethnic Studies - 1

• Sociology - 12

2018-2019 LAS College Curriculum Committee

• Anthropology/Political Science: Donald Blakeslee

• Biological Sciences: George Bousfield

• Chemistry: Jim Bann

• English: Kerry jones

• Elliott School of Communication: Patricia Dooley

• Geology/Physics: Collette Burke

• History/Philosophy: Robert Owens, Chair

• MCLL: Rachel Showstack

• Psychology/Sociology: Jibo He

• Social Work/School of Community Affairs/Hugo Wall School: Samuel Yeager

• Women's Studies/Religion: Doris Chang

• Associate Dean for Curriculum: Brien Bolin

• Assistant to Associate Dean for Curriculum: Joyce DalPorto-Ward

The committee wishes to extend its thanks to Joyce Dalporto-Ward for her kind assistance.

Respectfully submitted, Robert M. Owens, Chair

Faculty Support and Fellowship Awards (FSFA) Committee Report 2018-19

Committee Members: Rob Zettle – Chair; Richard Armstrong, Darren DeFrain, Buma Fridman, Robin Henry, and Bin Shuai.

The Committee initially met on October 2, 2018 to review nine applications for sabbatical for the 2019-20 academic year. Bin Shuai did not attend the meeting, but submitted her rankings to Cheryl Miler prior to the meeting and they were incorporated into the committee’s final rankings. At that meeting, one of the applicants had not yet been tenured, and at the direction of Dean Hippisley, was not reviewed. That directive, however, was subsequently reversed and this remaining applicant was reviewed by the committee via email in early November, Thus, ultimately 10 applicants were reviewed and recommended for sabbatical leave. The Committee also made a recommendation that information about any previous sabbatical leaves by applicants be provided to it for consideration. Having this information consistently presented for all applicants would be helpful insofar as the application asks that a summary be provided of activities “over the last 10 years, or since your last sabbatical leave.” Having such information would enable the Committee to better evaluate the degree to which previous sabbaticals by applicants successfully met their intended objectives. A copy of a sabbatical final report would likely serve this same purpose in which the outcomes of a previous leave are clearly identified.