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Faculty committee assignments for 2007-2008

School Evaluation Committee

Chair: DeKrey     Assistant Chair: Jurin     Members: Burns, Reinsvold
Duties include coordinating the faculty evaluation process.

Graduate committee

Chair: Keenan     Members: Schountz
Duties include graduate curriculum, recruitment, applications, fellowships/scholarships, other duties associated with the graduate programs, and assisting the Bio 691 instructor in identifying seminar speakers.

Undergraduate committee

Chair: White     Members: Smith, Thomas
Duties include undergraduate curriculum, recruitment, scholarships, preview days, and other duties associated with our undergraduate programs and students.

Social committee

Chair: Higgins    Members: Jurin, Mondragon, graduate student representative
Duties include planning and implementing social activities, gifts, etc for the department.

Assessment committee

Chair: Reinsvold     Members: Skufca, White
Duties include working with TracDat and other procedures to improve the assessment of our undergraduate and graduate programs.

Website committee

Chair: DeKrey     Members: Skufca
Duties include improving and updating the School website, catalog, public relations, and other forms of advertisement.

Individual assignments

  • Alpine Gardens - Reinsvold
  • Biology minor advising - Jurin
  • Environmental studies - Jurin
  • gtPathways course review - Smith
  • Greenhouse - Basu
  • Herbarium - Franklin
  • Honors program representative - Mackessy
  • Library representative - Basu
  • Museum - Clarke
  • Pre-health advisor - Burns
  • Student athlete advisor - Burns
  • Student teacher coordination, evaluation of applications for licensure, PTEP etc. - Reinsvold
  • Summer advising - Skufca
  • Undergraduate transfer evaluation - Smith (AY), Skufca (Summer)

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Faculty/Staff evaluation schedule 2008-2009

T = tenured, TT = tenure track, term = term, SEC = school evaluation committee, Dir = director, D = dean
  1. 9/25/08 -- SEC discuss NHS college award nominations.
  2. 10/1/08 -- TT faculty in year 2 hand in updated CV.
  3. 10/13/08 -- Sabbatical applications handed in.
  4. 10/15/08 -- T, TT hand in votes for reappointment of TT in year 2 (SEC to Dir 10/22, Dir to D 11/1).
  5. 10/31/08 -- Faculty discuss sabbatical applications (12:15-1:20).
  6. 10/31/08 -- Faculty input on sabbatical applications handed in (SEC to Dir 11/7, Dir to D by 11/13).
  7. 11/30/08 -- Input on Admin Assts (Cindy and Diana) for mid year eval to Dir (Dir to HR 12/15).
  8. 12/1/08 -- Comprehensive review dossiers and pretenure review dossiers handed in.
  9. 12/19/08 -- All faculty submit a notebook with their one page annual report, their FTE distribution for the year (provided by the administrative assistant), a CV, photocopies of all lecture notes and other teaching materials, photocopies of all publications, and photocopies of grant proposals for the calendar year being evaluated.
  10. 1/16/09 -- Discussion of comprehensive review and pretenure review candidates (12:15-1:20).
  11. 1/16/09 -- T, TT input on comprehensive review candidates (SEC to Dir 1/23, Dir to D 2/1).
  12. 1/23/09 -- All faculty input on annual evaluations.
  13. 1/27/09 -- SEC and Director discuss annual evaluations.
  14. 1/28/09-2/13/09 -- SEC discussions of annual evaluations (SEC to Dir 2/14, Dir to D 3/1).
  15. 2/20/09 -- All faculty reappointment input on term faculty (Dir to D 3/1).
  16. 2/20/09 -- T, TT hand in votes for reappointment of TT in years 2-6 (SEC to Dir 3/1, Dir to D 3/15).
  17. 3/1/09 -- Input on Admin Asst (Cindy and Diana) for overall eval (Dir to D 3/10).
  18. 4/28/09 -- Performance plan for Classified to HR.
Evaluation of Director is conducted by the dean's office.