I hope you plan on attending the January Conference next Wednesday, January 12, 2005 from 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. in the Chesapeake Rooms. This is an important meeting of the faculty as we will iron out a number of faculty workload issues during this time together. The agenda is below. Please RSVP to Donna Guillott, {dguillott@towson.edu}, by Monday, January 10th so that we are sure to have enough food for the luncheon. I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday as we make significant progress toward understanding the parameters of and determining a course for workload issues and concerns.
Office of the Provost-Towson University
January Conference: Scholarship and the Metropolitan University: What does it mean?
As follow-up to our tactical plans for workload allocation, within the strategic vision of ?Towson 2010: Mapping the Future,? the January conference will focus on evaluation of faculty performance in the area of scholarship and research. But almost by necessity, all three areas of teaching, research/scholarship, and service will be implicated. The particular lens for this exercise will focus on institutional infrastructure necessary to foster faculty growth and success in each of the areas, but especially scholarship and research. What are the ?tools? that faculty need to support their interests in each of the three areas of performance evaluation?
Agenda:
8:00 ? 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 ? 9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks ? Areas for Major Consideration by the Academy for the Near and Mid-Term (Provost Brennan)
Topics:
1. Annual workload agreements: short- and long-term career planning of tenure track career paths as well as post-tenure review.
2. Merit and the equity of work distributed among Teaching, Scholarship, and Service.
3. Flexible Workload and Towson University?s strategic agenda.
9:00 — 10:00 am Keynote: Planning Institutional Change and Our Work as Faculty. Dr. Robert Taylor
Professor of Management and Dean Emeritus
College of Business & Public Administration
University of Louisville
10:00 ? 10:15 am Break
10:15 ? 11:30 am Break Out Sessions. The central purpose of these groups would be to use a flexible workload ?worksheet? to develop plans for evaluation of workload productivity in the metropolitan university, particularly as it relates to modes for effective extension and partnering. The groups should consider assessment and evaluation of these modes. The deans should lead/facilitate appropriate groups.
Group I The Fine and Performing Arts. (Dean C. Spicer)
Group II Health Care. (Dean C. Exner)
Group III Education. (Dean R. Lorion)
Group IV Business. (Dean S. Kaynama)
Group V Science and Technology. (Dean G. Intemann)
Group VI Liberal Arts and Humanities. (Dean R. Marinho)
Group VII The Social Sciences. (Associate Provost D. Leather)
Group VIII Research and funding: Contracts vs. grants. (Dean M. Fracasso)
11:30 ? 11:45 am Break
Noon ? 12:45 pm Report Out and Discussion of Proposals from Groups
1:00 ? 2:30 pm Lunch and Remarks
Dr. Jennifer Ballengee
Department of English
Wrap-up and Where We Go From Here (Provost Brennan)
