Restructuring Conversation Team Minutes
November 13, 2000
3:00 pm Serna Conference Room
Present:Email All
Jack Elllis EllisJ@pyrite.wnmu.edu Mike Metcalf metcalfm@silver.wnmu.edu Michael Mann mannm@silver.wnmu.edu Linda Baldwin baldwinl@silver.wnmu.edu Terry Heiner heinert@silver.wnmu.edu Bertha Benavidez benavidezb@silver.wnmu.edu Greg Rolfe rolfeg@iron.wnmu.edu, rolfeg@pyrite.wnmu.edu Faye Vowell vowellf@pyrite.wnmu.edu
1. Greg had done a search on Alta Vista using the search terms "restructuring" and "universities." He posted three URLs on the bulletin board area for our work group for the group to look at. One looked especially good. He will explore whether the library has that particular article.
2. Linda shared a restructuring idea that emerged from the Business department. ( Linda, will you email that draft chart to Lloyd so he can get it on the Web?) The group spent a bit of time discussing that suggestion.
3. The team discussed a couple of the organizational charts that had come from institutions contacted by Michael Mann-particularly those of Berea College and the University of Houston-Victoria. The general observation was that the charts showed a pretty traditional structure, that they did not show the disciplines within each school, but that the various schools were open and willing to talk about their structures (and many of them were also restructuring).
4. The group tried to deal with the question of unbundling activities done by a typical department to ask what activities were central to the life of a group of faculty constituted as a department and which could be done outside a department.
5. Adjunct faculty hiring was a possible candidate for unbundling. Faculty need to vet the credentials of people teaching in their discipline and establish the syllabi to be used and the texts. But HR could maintain the credentials and share the recruitment activities with the faculty. The hiring paperwork could be done centrally.
6. Graduate assistant recruitment and selection was another example of an activity that could be centralized.
7. The group then brainstormed a list of activities that faculty and departments do. They agreed to categorize and unbundle the list which follows for the next meeting.
· Schedule classes and rooms
· Make room changes when necessary
· Climate control
· Report repairs
· Safety and security (make sure rooms and buildings are locked)
· Negotiation for space
· Process purchase orders and travel requests
· Pursue paperwork
· Order textbooks
· Do faculty workload report
· Maintain web page
· Review catalog copy
· Recruit students
· Work to retain students
· Advise and register students
· Teach
· Choose textbooks
· Sponsor student organizations
· Create curriculum
· Create syllabi
· Do research
· Work with students on research
· Attend conferences
· Conduct program review
· Do assessment
· Prepare accreditation reports
· Work on articulation
· Do MBOs and evaluate for promotion and tenure
· Conduct post tenure review
· Attend meetings
· Community interaction
· Committee service8. The group discussed the Administrative Cost document that was prepared by Michael Mann and Judith Lawrence. (Judith please email me or Lloyd the spreadsheet so it can be posted to the web.)
9. Linda Baldwin and Michael Mann agreed to share the duties of reporting out at the General Assembly.
10. Our next meeting will be on December 11 at 3:00 pm in the Serna Conference Room.