FPPC Meeting Minutes March 22, 2000

PRESENT: Wilson, Laquer, Campbell, Beard, Montgomery, Horiuchi, Nunn, Hatzenbuehler, Jacobson

ABSENT: Lawson EXCUSED: Sato, Sieber

I. Minutes of Feb. 23 were approved 9-0-0 (yes-no-abstain).

II. Reports

A. Wilson reported that the Faculty Senate approved replacing Hyde with Jacobson for the remainder of the semester.

III. Business

A. Bylaws

1. The final draft of the bylaws distributed after the last meeting were reviewed, one grammatical error was noted and the change amended.

2. A motion was made to approve the bylaws with the minor amendment, the motion was seconded, passed 9-0-0 (yes-no-abstain).

3. The bylaws will be forwarded to the Faculty Senate with these minutes once they are approved.

B. Dating Policy

1. The Dating Policy drafted and distributed from the last meeting was opened for discussion.

2. The "preamble" for the policy was presented, discussed and modified.

3. A final policy was created through modifications combining the draft policy and preamble .

4. A motion was made to accept the final policy, the motion was seconded, and approved (9-0-0).

5. A motion was made to approve "Faculty Student Relationships" as the policy title, the motion was seconded, and approved (9-0-0).

6. The committee refers to the Jan. 12 minutes for approved placement of the policy within the handbook (section 4.1 new item "Q").

7. The policy will be forwarded to Faculty Senate attached to these minutes.

C. Post Tenure Review Process (PTR)

1. Discussions on approaching the PTR process and policy continued

2. Wilson will invite from the PTR-Grant (A. Oaks, L. Hill, K. Kangas) to attend the next FPPC meetings to help answer questions and provide an overview of the information gathered.

3. It was suggested that a starting point would be to review the current ISU policies and procedures (Wilson will request that information from A. Oaks) to compare with the "Task" list that the PTR-Grant committee is providing to the FPPC.

4. Issues that the council feels will need to be explored and defined to incorporate into a PTR policy include: definition of "peer" for the peer review component; definition of "substantive"; descriptions and definitions for "bonus or consequence" issues and if they are to be incorporated at all; discussions of the possible need for different "templates" for different levels of faculty status.

Meeting Adjourned: 2:00 pm