Faculty Roles and Rewards Task Force

Goals of the FRR Task Force It is essential we invest wisely in our greatest and most substantial institutional asset: the intellectual diversity and creativity of our faculty. Faculty development and rewards are a key part of that investment. We must configure our development activities and reward structures to appropriately recognize our faculty and the full range of their contributions. I want to inform you of continuing efforts to address faculty roles and rewards task force at UMKC. In the Summer of 2000 a group of faculty members and staff joined together to form a project team called PRIDE: Promotion, Reward, and Investment in the Development of Excellence. This group, recognizing the benefits that result from an expanded perspective of scholarship, examined options to enhance the criteria in the promotion, tenure and faculty rewards process. Their work has initiated the need for further conversation and then action. As the next step in considering faculty roles and rewards and in keeping with our goals of academic excellence and becoming a workplace of choice, I am appointing a panel of campus leaders to study the proposal and to make recommendations. This panel will include several members of the original PRIDE group, as well as general faculty representatives, members of the Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, and representatives of the Deans’ Council. -William Osborne, Provost Charge to the Committee The Faculty Roles and Rewards Task Force was specifically charging to do the following: Review and evaluate the draft document put forward by PRIDE in the context of the five goals set forth in UMKC’s draft Strategic Plan but especially the goals of academic excellence and workplace of choice. Recommend changes to that document that will place UMKC within the national dialogue of faculty roles and rewards task force, while advancing scholarly and creative activity aligned with our campus mission. Convene at least 3 focus groups to receive faculty input on the PRIDE proposal Use the PRIDE web site to communicate with the campus community, report on progress, and solicit additional feedback. Generate a report to the Provost and Faculty Senate Committee Membership Representing Faculty Senate: Philip Feil, School of Dentistry Patricia Marken, School of Pharmacy Karen Vorst, Department of Economics Ellen Suni, School of Law Sully Read, School of Biological Sciences Other Members: Randall Pembrook, Conservatory of Music Nancy Mills, School of Nursing William Osborne, School of Computing and Engineering Dianne Smith, School ofEducation Gayle Levy, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Jerry Jean, Department of Chemistry Gary Pettet, School of Medicene Laura Gayle Green, University Libraries Ex-Officio: Linda Gill Taylor, Center for the City Laurence Kaptain, Academic Affairs Jeff Thomas, Academic Affairs John Killip, School of Dentistry Faculty Projects FRRTF is undertaking three projects that together will produce a first class university-wide reward and recognition system for faculty in the UMKC academic units. The Projects are as follows: An innovative new standard for evaluating faculty performance that unleashes human potential and fosters excellence (Project 1A). Project measures and steps for approval and implementation. Design principles. Drafts of new standards for evaluating faculty documents  A first class faculty reward and recognition system (Project 1B). Faculty Survey. The Faculty Reward System: The National Academy for Academic Leadership. A first class faculty development program (Project 1C). Web References Exemplifying Scholarship Redefined. Bibliography. Faculty Development Links Final Report The committee intends to submit a Final Report to the Provost and the Faculty Senate in X.

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Last updated: April 20th, 2004