• Respond to strong faculty concerns regarding salary and other budget issues.
    • Increase transparency and faculty understanding of the University budget process.
    • Call for updated progress reports on the faculty/staff salary improvement plan.
    • Ask faculty representatives on the Budget Committee to provide regular updates to Academic Council.
    • Enhance faculty awareness of how the budget is constructed and how budgetary decisions regarding salaries, faculty and student scholarship support, student financial aid, and facilities are made.
  • Address the significant faculty concern expressed regarding teaching/course load.
    • Use the report and recommendations from the Task Force on Reassigned Time to facilitate discussions regarding these concerns.
  • Support the continuing work of the President’s Diversity Council.
    • Provide support for the University’s diversity initiatives.
    • Encourage faculty leadership in this area.
    • Engage in an ongoing dialogue with Staff Council regarding diversity issues in the broader campus community.
    • Ask each standing committee to reflect on diversity-related work and initiatives in their year-end reports.
  • Continue to support the recently revised Student Perceptions of Teaching form.
    • Work with the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs to develop formal guidelines governing how evaluation data is stored and made available.
    • Work with CATL to facilitate the use of evaluation methods that go “beyond the form.”
  • Continue work on all three task forces outstanding from 2011-2012.
    • Bring recommendations from the Task Force on Reassigned Time to the full faculty; implement recommendations where appropriate.
    • Evaluate recommendations from the Task Force on the Promotion and Tenure Process in the fall; bring to faculty and begin implementation. Consider the recommendations from the Task Force on Service in relation to the work of the P & T Task force.
    • Evaluate recommendations from the Task Force on the Role of the Department Chair; bring to faculty.
  • Continue work on Council’s committee structure.
    • Evaluate advisory committees.
    • Increase transparency of task force membership.
    • Support process for interdisciplinary proposals submitted to school/division curriculum committees.
    • Support dialogue about graduate school membership on standing committees.