September 27, 2024 Minutes

CNSM College Council

Attendance: Carter, Hernandez-Pacheco, Klotz, Pare, Bhandari, Ricketts, Bennet, Karteron, Hagedorn. Non-member attendance: Kelly Young

  1. Approval / Additions to Agenda
    1. Agenda approved
  2. Approval of Minutes from 9/6/2024
    1. Minutes approved
    2. Minutes will be sent to Danny Ames after approval, with tracked changes accepted and markup removed.
  3. College RTP Policy Revision Updates:
    1. Instruction: Ashley and Ben
      1. It was discussed that people who are not teaching or have a light teaching load the semester that they’re going up should arrange to have committee member visits the semester before if necessary.
        1. CBA states that committee should discuss visits ahead of time, but has not been happening (section 15.14).
        2. Text will be added to college doc about the conversation between visitor and candidate.
        3. Kelly Young: 5 day notice is not consistently followed across departments.
        4. Discussion of including language about CBA wording changes, as well as "must" vs "shall."
        5. CBA has no language about actually assessing teaching. We have forms for lecturer evaluation; Jen-Mei Chang tried to institute something for faculty but it did not move forward. It is suggested that such policies be departmental. Wording for college document to be written by Carter and sent out for consideration.
        6. Mentoring 496 students: Young mentions inconsistency between putting students under teaching vs research. Bio is the only dept that puts it in teaching. It is mentioned that if faculty receive teaching units for it, it should be under teaching. Dean's rec: list/number students in PDS/CV.
        7. It is suggested we go back to the University policy and write something consistent with it regarding where mentoring goes.
      2. RSCA: Alex and Raisa
        1. University policy integrated into CNSM policy, with new sections that we thought should be added based on CC discussions.
        2. Additions in blue are approved or discussed one by one (see associated document, included CB comments). More detailed discussions mentioned below.
          1. Discussion about whether requirement of peer review is consistent with University policy about broad audiences, as well as Earth Science issues with non-refereed technical reports. Sentence about peer review is removed from 2.3.1.
          2. Discussion on how to word the proviso about co-authorship in 2.3.2.2. It was removed and passed to departments.
      3. Service: Amy and Deepali
        1. Amy requests to survey the college about issues of cultural taxation and/or hidden labor. Discussion is otherwised tabled.
      4. Timeline/Early Tenure/Procedural: Lihan and Jeff
  4. Dean's Report:
    1. This year's budget is bad.
  5. RSCA – Update (Margaret)
    1. Should go out Monday, deadline Nov 4. Klaehn, Dillon, Schwans, Holk, Korosteleva on committee.
    2. About applying to RSCA for TT Faculty with Spring Semester Appointment.
      1. People whose assigned time starts in January and ends in the Fall, are they eligible to use a RSCA award in the Spring following the end of new faculty reassigned time?
        1. College assigned time can be moved around. If they do this, should we still say spring?
        2. Proposal from Carter: not in your first six semesters, regardless of when they start. Approved by unanimous vote, Dean abstains.
  6. Fall Elections – Update (Margaret)
    1. Ballot is about ready to be sent. Two nominees for Senate to replace BK, Claudia and Jillian. For RTP is Lora Stevens filling the Earth Science opening; Bruno Pernet to replace Chris Lowe's second year. Andreas Bill at large.
  7. Dean’s 5-Year Review Year Committee – Faculty nominations to approve
    1. Names of Committee members: Carter Biology, Galen Pickett Physics, Olga Korosteleva Math, chemistry pending, Hagedorn Earth Science.
  8. Next Meeting – Friday 10/4/24 @ 2:00pm
  9. Meeting Adjourned 4:09pm

Please note that these minutes reflects discussion on the date of the CNSM College Council meeting about policies, not actual policy. Faculty and staff should wait for official communication on each subject before acting.