UO Senators,

The Interinstitutional Faculty Senate has established a committee to develop a proposed legislative agenda for 2001. Some of the proposed issues we will consider are as follows (but not limited to):

• 1. Establish a fast response legislative watch and policy impact/analysis Scholar's Network
• 2. Parnter with the K-12 Education Coalition and community colleges to create a K-16+ Oregon Education Plan
• 3. Build a Creativity Through Diversity Fund that pays up to the first three years salary for minority and women faculty or adminstrators who are hired to replace and mentor with professors during their tenure relinquishment period.
• 4. Reverse the trend towards part-time faculty with more flexible overload compensation and multiple employment relationship policies, which facilitate the movement of faculty and staff to where the needs are greatest.
• 5. Increase the size of the Public Employees Benefit Board and/or require a balanced representation on the board.
• 6. Develop a Faculty Retention Matching Fund that will match institutional resources to increase compensation packages to a level that is competititive with other professionals in Oregon.
• 7. Weave the IFS into the adminstrative fabric or policies of OUS (e.g. guranteed release time for the IFS president and better definition of IFS opportunities for political involvement)>
• 8. Find administrative changes that could make higher education more competitive as it tries to recruit and retain the best faculty and staff and free more resources for programmmatic purposes (e.g. January notices of reappointment and or rolling two year contracts for fixed term faculty, short - term tenure reductions, consulting arrangements where indirect costs are waived, and benfit packages or group insurance purchase plans for all graduate and possibly undergraduate students).

We want your ideas and input. Paul simonds@oregon.uoregon.edu