Faculty Finance Committee Minutes
September 10, 2007
Attendance
Ron Akers, Elizabeth Dale, Alan Dorsey, Mary Ann Eaverly, Chuck Frazier, Judy Page, Paul Robinson, Ken Wald
Absent: Jane Brockmann
- The meeting began at 10:00 am. The committee welcomed its new member, Chuck Frazier, who replaces David Daegling as an appointed member from Social and Behavioral Sciences.
- The committee discussed and agreed upon a rotation plan for replacing committee members.
- Members to be replaced Fall 2007: Alan Dorsey (Natural and Mathematical Sciences, elected), Judy Page (Humanities, elected), Chuck Frazier (Social and Behavioral Sciences, appointed)
- Members to be replaced Fall 2008: Ron Akers (Social and Behavioral Sciences, elected), Mary Ann Eaverly (Humanities, elected), Elizabeth Dale (Humanities, appointed)
- Members to be replaced Fall 2009: Jane Brockmann (Natural and Mathematical Sciences, elected), Ken Wald (Social and Behavioral Sciences, elected), Paul Robinson (Natural and Mathematical Sciences, appointed)
- Alan Dorsey agreed to remain as committee Chair through the fall term. He will contact the College Assembly leadership and ask that an election be held later in the fall to replace Dorsey and Page. The Interim Dean will appoint a replacement for Frazier early in the spring term.
- The new college governance structure requires that the Chair of the Finance Committee serve as an ex-officio member of the College Faculty Council and as a member of the Steering Committee. Given the large number of meetings in the fall, the committee members agreed to take turns attending the Faculty Council and Steering Committee meetings, to represent the views of the Finance Committee. Paul Robinson agreed to attend the meeting on September 13, Elizabeth Dale will attend the meeting on October 8, and Ken Wald will attend the meeting on October 29. Assignments for other meetings will be decided at a later committee meeting.
- The committee briefly discussed two new financial reports, the “Review of UF Financial Resources Compared to AAU Public Universities,” and “Report of the Budget Model Allocation Committee”, both of which are available at http://www.aa.ufl.edu/documents/. Everyone agreed to read the reports before the next meeting. We will discuss whether a response from the committee is needed.
- We then discussed possible tasks for the fall term. Among the possibilities are (a) a rationale for exemptions to the current hiring freeze; (b) a hiring plan in “recovery mode”; (c) an algorithm for determining OE and OPS allocations; (d) a discussion of priorities—hiring more faculty versus increased faculty support; (e) recommendations to the university efficiency task force; (f) financial suggestions for the new dean. It was suggested that (a) is moot; (b)-(d) received the greatest support. The discussion will continue at the next meeting. The hope is to focus on one or two well-defined tasks for the fall.
- The meeting concluded at 11:15am. The next meeting will be on Monday, September 24, at 10:00am in the Dean’s conference room.
