Webinar for Consolidating Institutions Hosted by Academic Affairs & Legal Affairs

1. Webinar for Consolidating InstitutionsHosted by Academic Affairs & Legal Affairs Presenters: Kimberly Ballard-Washington Shelley Nickel Linda Noble

2. Faculty Performance Review • 2012-2013 • All evaluations should be based on existing performance expectations and processes at each institution • This includes • Annual reviews • Pre-tenure (3rd Year) reviews • Tenure & Promotion reviews • Post-tenure reviews • PTR development plans • Anticipate influx of candidates this Fall • Maintain integrity and objectivity of your standards and process

3. Transitioning to Expectations for the New Institution • 2012-2013 • Establish a joint task force to develop/revise expectations for the new, consolidated institution • Also address processes to be used by new institution for all faculty evaluations • Include campus appeals process • Also address a new process for faculty appointments • Will need to be approved by governance processes at each institution to produce at the SACS site visit in Spring 2013 to comply with CS 3.2.9 – “document published consolidated policies for the appointment, employment, and evaluation of all personnel” • Will be in effect for all reviews in 2013-2014 • Includes: annual reviews, pre-tenure reviews/tenure & promotion/post-tenure

4. Challenges with Implementing New Performance Expectations • New expectations must be aligned with new institutional mission • Process is analogous to any institution with a changing mission • Faculty work must advance new mission (grandfathering to old expectations is not allowable) • Time Line • Faculty & Administrator Understanding of Expectations • Workshops for faculty portfolio preparation • Workshops for reviewers/evaluators/administrators

5. Implementing New Performance Expectations • 2013-2014 • New expectations and process in effect for Fall 2013 • Review committees should include faculty representatives institution-wide • Establish a new T&P Oversight Committee to address any problems or issues that arise out of the review process • Make recommendations for changes in next year’s review (2014-2015) • Suggest keeping the Oversight Committee in place for a few years

6. Questions about Faculty Performance Review?

7. Consolidating Grievance Processes • Establish task force to consolidate faculty grievance processes • Find similar processes across existing campuses and use what has worked well to enhance the new process • Ensure the new process will work for all faculty from the previously separate institutions • Consult AAUP shared governance resources

8. Institutional Governance • 2012-2013 • Board Policy on institutional governance • Establish joint task force to merge/integrate all documents and processes related to shared governance • Institutional statutes & bylaws • Governance bodies (e.g., Senates, Councils, etc.) • Faculty handbooks • Should include new performance expectations and process from other task force • Institutional Committees • Representation on System Committees

9. Institutional Governance Continued… • Will need to be approved by governance processes at each institution by December 2012 • New governance process will go into effect in January 2013 • This is especially important regarding curriculum and program approval

10. Questions about Shared Governance?

11. Academic Unit Organization • Guiding principles: • Align academic units with new mission and eliminate/revise units accordingly • Avoid duplication of units and administrative heads • Align for the future (e.g., are new colleges or divisions needed?) • Cost savings is a central goal • Organizational chart, all administrative appointments, and faculty roster needed for the Prospectus due in October and for the site visit in Spring 2013

12. Questions about Academic Unit Organization?