April 13, 2007
UO Senate Non Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) Committee Meeting
Present: Alan Dickman, Harinder Kaur Hennesy (Chair), Ali Emami, Joan Malmud (secretary). Daniel Pope, Gloria Zabala.
Absent: Michele Henney, Amy Goeser-Kolb, Yelaina Kripkov, Phil McCullum, Laurie Neighbors
I.
Today, the Senate NTTF Committee continued and
completed its review of the AA Committee’s draft Document on Policies,
Procedures and Practices for Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) at the University
of Oregon, dated February 21, 2007 (Policy Statement). Based on its review, the Senate
Committee would recommend the following changes to the document:
a.
The
document should state explicitly that, once the position of lecturer is
created, there will be a transition period in which appointments are reviewed
and that those appointments that are appropriate for the rank of lecturer will
be assigned a new rank, without the need for a new search. Text could be added on page 6, under
the heading of "Transitions."
b.
The
frequency of evaluations for NTTF should parallel the frequency of evaluations
for faculty on the tenure track.
For example, if professors are evaluated less frequently after tenure,
NTTF may similarly be evaluated less frequently after reaching senior
instructor status. Fewer
evaluations for more experienced NTTF would lessen the administrative burden
due to NTTF evaluations.
II. Joan Malmud, Liaison to the
Academic Affairs Committee, agreed to send an e-mail to Russ Tomlin, Chair of
the Academic Affairs Committee communicating these suggestions.