LFA Exec - Minutes - April 10, 2024
Minutes from the Library Faculty Assembly Executive Committee
April 10, 2024
Attending: Jon Giullian, Scott McEathron, Michael Peper, Sara Outhier (secretary),
Absent: Andi Back, Cecilia Zhang
MEETING MINUTES
- Approval of minutes from March meeting.
- LFA committee reports:
- Nothing to report.
- Report from meeting with Dean (Michael and Jon):
- The LIS PhD issue has been put to a ballot and members are voting. Spoke about the status of faculty hiring requests, and there is no update. We should know more sometime over the summer. Dean Smith has asked for funding for new positions. She also asked for startup funds for each new faculty member. Dean Smith is seeking a Libraries nominee for the University Committee on Sabbatical Leave. Dean Smith has asked for a review of the Promotion and Tenure Criteria and Criteria for Academic Ranks. Michael and Lars Leon recommend a special task force rather than LCPT. Discussed the planning for the spring LFA General Assembly.
- LFA Exec can recommend a special charge for a P&T Criteria review task force as part of our annual report.
- Will need help from the body to identify types of creative and scholarly works that are not represented in the current criteria.
- The LIS PhD issue has been put to a ballot and members are voting. Spoke about the status of faculty hiring requests, and there is no update. We should know more sometime over the summer. Dean Smith has asked for funding for new positions. She also asked for startup funds for each new faculty member. Dean Smith is seeking a Libraries nominee for the University Committee on Sabbatical Leave. Dean Smith has asked for a review of the Promotion and Tenure Criteria and Criteria for Academic Ranks. Michael and Lars Leon recommend a special task force rather than LCPT. Discussed the planning for the spring LFA General Assembly.
- Agenda for spring assembly meeting:
- Michael will work with Brooke Harris to coordinate with the Dean’s schedule. We do not need to coordinate with LFSA or LSA, as they are not meeting this spring.
- Potential topics:
- Remarks from Dean Smith
- Potential topics include P&T criteria review, faculty hiring updates, Libraries mentoring program, improving the external communication model, budget updates, increasing the professional development budget
- Remarks from Dean Smith
- New LRF guidelines
- Ideas about faculty hiring feedback process
- P&T criteria review
- LFA Committee reports
- If the ballot initiative on LIS PhD passes, and update on the process.
- New business
- None