Below are the agenda for the April 28th AAUP meeting
(scheduled for 11:00
a.m. in Alumni Lounge -Room 342 of the
minutes of the last meeting (March 24th).
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AAUP Agenda, 4-28-05
1. Approval of the Agenda
2. Approval of the Minutes
3. Reports: Treasurer; Membership; Government Relations; Tenure
and
Promotion (Committee A); Status of the Profession; Status of Women; State
Conference
4. Old Business: Inversion Pay Resolution
5. New Business: Nomination Report; Nominations from the Floor; Election
6. Such Other Matters
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AAUP MINUTES
March 24, 2005
Members Present: Tony Baker, Kurt Eisen, Colleen
Hays, Paula Hinton, Jon
Jonakin, Wali Kharif, Marketta Laurila, Paul Semmes, Kristin Walker,
Sharon Whitney
Agenda, and Minutes from 3/24/05, were approved.
Jonakin-Treasurer's
Report--$3,301.11 in treasury as of 3/23/05. 4th
Quarter Dues are due though ($1,541.00) which will leave $1,760.11.
Kharif-Membership-reported
that there are currently 56 members. He also
announced that headquarters wants home addresses for our members. He says
that he will not send that information to headquarters, that
it should be
up to individual members whether or not they want to provide that
information. Members will have to initiate this, but Wali will send each
of us the contact information needed to send our home addresses to
headquarters.
Whitney reported for Committee A-two complaints have been processed
regarding evaluations they have received. Doesn't
really affect their
status as professors, though it could potentially do so. One is
looking
to get a very negative evaluation erased from his/her record. Kharif said
there is a mechanism for challenging evaluations it really isn't the job
of AAUP. Whitney said that one has written a letter to his/her dean
saying that he/she has contacted the AAUP regarding this issue. This same
person had originally said that he/she had contacted an AAUP lawyer-that
was removed from the letter before it was sent.
will probably be resolved without AAUP involvement.
President are open. Have found someone for Secretary.
Having trouble
finding a President. Considering other options:
--Take more nominations from the floor.
--Ask Katherine Osburn to be Vice Pres. and Kristin
Walker could assume
the presidency. Osburn said she would do so in
name only as she is busy
with state AAUP business.
--Meet less frequently, which would decrease the workload for officers.
In response, Kharif suggested we choose the second
option. He promised
Whitney said she would also help, but does not want to be the actual
organizer of events.
The suggestion was made that we get a list of tasks from Osburn
and then
divide the work among a group (or "forum committee").
Whitney asked for
nominations from the floor.
Election will take place at final AAUP meeting, Thursday, April 28, at
11:00 in RUC 342.
Nominating Committee put forth the following candidates:
President: Kristin Walker
Vice Pres.: Katherine Osburn
Secretary: Paula Hinton
Treasurer: Jon Jonakin
Executive Board at Large: Colleen Hays, Tom Saya,
Christine Miller
Kharif will send out Nominating Committee report to
members.
Report from Baker and Hays regarding Resolution Urging
Campus-Wide
Inversion Pay Enhancements. Baker reports that nothing has
been done
about the issue. The committee that we thought was handling the issue
came up with no recommendations regarding inversion pay in their final
report.
Semmes reports that money has been set aside for this. Inversion came up
at the Dean's Council meeting. Money set aside (2 years ago?) was
sufficient at that time but since then not all of the inversions were
addressed, and more have arisen. The report (referred to in previous
paragraph) was sent to President Bell. The main focus of it (and the
committee) was merit pay, although some attention was given to inversion.
It includes copies of pay plans and the
is a recommendation regarding inversions included in the report. The idea
is for TTU to get something proposed at the June meeting, to get
modifications to the current pay plan. Inversion pay needs to be part of
the official policy. The history of this in the
Sciences is that at first recommendations were made to Barker. At some
point policy developed that if a new person was hired, and there existed
another person who was being paid less than the new hire, the person who
was now making less received the following: if he/she was an Assistant
Professor, they received the new pay level in addition to $500; if he/she
was an Assoc. Prof., they received the new pay level and an additional
$1000. Semmes was uncertain about what happened if a Full Prof. was
involved as he is not sure it has ever happened. (Perhaps
new pay plus
$3000?) Not sure about what happened with Instructors in this
situation.
Baker said that at some point it was automatic, at other times it was not,
but nothing is happening now. There is nothing in the pay plan regarding
inversion and that needs to change. This should be the focus. The
merit
pay discussion is obscuring the more important issue of inversion.
Semmes: His impression is that we likely will not have enough money to
make all the adjustments to pay that are needed. It is not fiscally
possible. Some schools in the TBR ignore it completely.
Eisen reported that the Equity Committee has not met
since the last TBR
meeting.
Baker asked if AAUP should put forth the resolution or not, and where it
should be sent.
Discussion ensued and edits to the resolution were made.
A vote was taken: Unanimous that the general sentiment in the resolution
is something to carry forward as soon as possible, and
that Baker should
be in charge of it.
Meeting adjourned at 12:00.
Respectfully submitted,
Paula Hinton