Search Committees
Special Advisory Committee to the President on the Dean's Search
Next Meeting
- March 31, 2008
5:00 pm
237 Dauer Hall
Membership
- Chair
Mary Watt, watt@rll.ufl.edu - John Leavey, jpl@english.ufl.edu
- Mitchell Hart, hartm@history.ufl.edu
- Mike Binford, mbinford@geog.ufl.edu
- Amie Kreppel, kreppel@ces.ufl.edu
- John Henretta, jch@soc.ufl.edu
- Kenneth Merz, merz@qtp.ufl.edu
- James Keesling, jek@math.ufl.edu
- Gary Ihas, ihas@phys.ufl.edu
- Kaoru Kitajima, kitajima@botany.ufl.edu
Departmental Contacts
- AAC
Albert Matheny - AALL
Cynthia Chennault, chenna@aall.ufl.edu - Communication Sciences and Disorders
Rahul Shrivastav - Geology:
Paul Mueller, mueller@geology.ufl.edu
David Foster (back up) - GSS
Franz Futterknecht
- History:
Joseph Spillane spillane@crim.ufl.edu - Linguistics
Galia Hatav, ghatav@lin.ufl.edu
- Religion
Dave Hackett - Physics
Gary Ihas
Alan Dorsey (Chair) chair@phys.ufl.edu - Philosophy
Kirk Ludwig, kludwig@phil.ufl.edu - Political Science
Michael D. Martinez, martinez@ufl.edu - Statistics
Ron Randles, rrandles@stat.ufl.edu - Women’s Studies and Gender Research:
Florence Babb, fbabb@wst.ufl.edu
- Zoology
Ben Bolker, bolker@zoo.ufl.edu
Minutes
November 26, 2007, 219 Dauer Hall
Present: Chris Snodgrass, John Leavey, Mary Watt, Gary Ihas, Mitch Hart, John Henretta, Mike Binford, James Keesling
Absent: Amie Kreppel, Kenneth Merz
- The Meeting started at 4:00 pm
- Chris Snodgrass opened the meeting by asking those members present to introduce themselves.
- Committee members did so, and Chris Snodgrass proceeded to explain the duties of the committee to the members.
- Chris Snodgrass then requested that the members elect a Committee Chair.
- Gary Ihas nominated Mary Watt
The nomination was seconded by Mike Binford.
A vote was taken by show of hands. The Committee voted to elect Mary Watt as Chair. - It was decided that the Committee would meet again prior to the CLAS Assembly Meeting and would continue to meet again on a regular basis.
- Mary Watt undertook to send an email message to all committee members with respect to scheduling the meeting.
- The meeting adjourned at 5:00 pm
December 3, 2007, 237 Dauer Hall
Present: John Leavey, Mary Watt, Gary Ihas, Mitch Hart, John Henretta, Mike Binford, James Keesling, Amie Kreppel
Absent: Kenneth Merz
- Two amendments were made to the draft minutes of the Nov. 16th meeting. Gary Ihas moved to adopt the draft minutes of the November 26th meeting, Mike Binford seconded and the minutes passed unanimously.
- The Committee decided that Mary Watt would be the Recording officer.
- The committee members were advised of the Provost’s request for a meeting on Friday December 7.
- The committee decided on a list of faculty members who would be asked to accept appointment to the Committee to ensure its diversity. Mary Watt will contact these members in the next week.
- Mary Watt reported that she had contacted the CLASSC with respect to the appointment of Student Members, and noted that she had received no response from them
- It was decided that the committee will set up a website through which to disseminate information to faculty members and on which to post minutes and agendas of committee meetings. Mary Watt will contact Jeff Stevens, the CLAS web master to effect this.
- It was decided that the committee would use a list serve and the voting program currently in place to solicit input from the Faculty. Committee members were also asked to start considering what type of input we ought to solicit from faculty members.
- It was decided that the Committee would share its advice to the President with the CLAS Assembly and faculty. It was considered that the upcoming meeting with the provost would be an opportune time to clarify reporting mechanisms.
- Mary Watt will draft her address to the CLAS Assembly scheduled for Wednesday, December 5 and forward it to committee members on December 4.
- Mary Watt reported that she had contacted the chair of the CLAS Dean Search Committee and that the Special Committee had been placed on the agenda for the Search Committee’s meeting on December 7.
- Mary Watt undertook to send an email with all of the upcoming meeting dates to the committee members. John Leavey undertook to the committee members a link to the committee’s enabling legislation.
- The meeting adjourned at 11:45 am.
January 7, 2008 237 Dauer Hall, 5:00 pm
Present: John Leavey, Mary Watt, Mitch Hart, John Henretta, James Keesling, Amie Kreppel, Kenneth Merz, Kaoru Kitajima
Absent: Gary Ihas, Mike Binford
- The meeting started at 5 pm.
- The draft minutes from the December 3 meeting were unanimously approved.
- Our new member of the committee, Kaoru Kitajima, was welcomed.
- Mary Watt briefed the committee in terms of the progress being made by the Search Committee, and the status of the search.
- Mary Watt advised the committee that the committee web site had been created.
- Mary Watt advised the committee that several departments had already provided department contacts and it was decided that Mary Watt would send a reminder to department chairs, asking them to provide department contacts.
- There was a discussion as to the information that should be sought from the faculty, and at what stage of the process such information ought to be gathered and disseminated.
- There was also discussion as to how best to organize and present the information to the President pursuant to the committee’s charge to advise him, and at what point in the search process.
- It was also suggested that the committee request a search timeline from the Search Committee. Mary Watt agreed to do this.
- It was decided that Mary Watt would draft a notice to faculty advising them as to the progress of the committee, the availability of departmental contacts, and basic information as to the timeline of the Search process. This draft would be distributed to tom committee members for revision before being sent out.
- The meeting adjourned at 6:05 pm
January 22, 2008, 237 Dauer Hall
Present: M. Binford, J. Henretta, J. Keesling, K. Kitajima, A. Kreppel, J. Leavey, K. Merz, C. Snodgrass, M. Watt
- The meeting started at 4 pm.
- Minutes from January 7, 2008 Meeting were unanimously adopted.
- M. Binford and M. Watt provided committee with an oral report of the Search Committee meeting that they had attended on January 11, 2008. I particular they noted that the Search Committee would conduct interviews of a short list of candidates, approximately 12 candidates on February 14-16, 2008. The Search Committee has been asked, by the provost to provide her, from those c. 12 candidates, an unranked list of 3-5 finalists.
- The Committee was visited by Chris Snodgrass who provided and overview of the University and CLAS’s financial situation who reminded the committee of the importance of their task.
- Mary Watt provided reported to the committee with respect to which departments had requested the attendance of a committee member at their respective department meetings. She also reported as to which committee members had attended and what feedback had been received.
- It was also decided that the Committee would remind the Search Committee of its request for access to the candidate files.
- It was also decided that the members f the committee would attend the Search Committee meeting on February 6 and would meet the next day (February 7th) to discuss the outcome.)
- Finally, it was decided that the committee would send a reminder to CLAS faculty with respect to the February 6th meeting.
- The meeting adjourned at 5:30 pm
February 17, 2008 237 Dauer Hall
Present: All Committee Members
- Adoption of Minutes from February 7 meeting
- Results of semi-finalist interviews: Members who were present at semifinalist interviews gave summaries of their impressions and opinion of the candidates
- It was decided that the committee would, having been asked by the Search Committee for input, would give the names of its three top candidates to the Search Committee. Those candidates were Peter Coclanis, Paul D’Anieri and Herbert Wang
- The issue of the faculty feedback was tabled for a later meeting
- The meeting adjourned at 6:30 pm
March 3, 237 Dauer Hall, 5:00 pm
Present: Jed Keesling, John Leavey, Mary Watt, Mike Binford, Kenny Merz, John Henretta
- Minutes from February 17 meeting were distributed for members to consider for next meeting.
- Committee Members discussed who would be present at Candidate D’Anieri events.
- The Committee discussed faculty feedback thus far
- The committee considered what questions ought to put to finalists during the meeting specific time set aside for the Special Advisory Committee. It was decided that the candidates would be asked about two areas; those dealing with the candidates management experience (dealing with faculty, managing budgets etc.) and collaborative experience (intra-college, extra-college and extra-university, as well as the commensurate concerns such collaborative efforts entail).
- The committee had a brief discussion concerning the format of the survey to be put to faculty following the candidate visits, and it was decided that that it would meet on March 17th to continue this discussion.
- The committee decided to ask the Search Committee again to have candidates’ materials beyond CV’s posted on the Search site, and Mary Watt agreed to do that.
- The committee also decided that faculty should be sent a reminder during the upcoming Spring Break of Candidate Romzek’s visit. Mary Watt agreed to do this.
- The meeting concluded at 6:30 pm
March 17, 2008, 237 Dauer Hall
Present: Mike Binford, Kaoru Kitajima, John Leavey, Gary Ihas, Mary
Watt
Absent: Mitchell Hart, John Henretta, Amie Kreppel, Kenneth Merz
- The meeting started at 5:15
- The members present adopted the minutes of the Minutes from February 17th meeting, and from March 3 meeting
- The committee decided that in light of the change in circumstances, i.e. the impending resignation of Provost Fouke that the committee ought to be reporting directing to President Machen. Mary Watt advised that she would begin to draft an email to him in this regard.
- The committee also finalized the format of the faculty poll and Mary Watt agreed to draft a notice to faculty with respect to the timing and the methodology of the poll.
- The meeting adjourned at 6:30 pm
March 24, 2008, 237 Dauer Hall
Present: Mike Binford, Gary Ihas, Kaoru Kitajima, John Leavey, John
Henretta, Mary Wattt
Absent: Mitchell Hart, Amie Kreppel, Kenneth Merz
- The meeting started at 5:00
- Mary Watt advised that in light of the withdrawal of Peter Coclanis from the CLAS Dean Search the time table for polling faculty would be abbreviated. She advised that she and other members of the Committee had attended the emergency meeting of the Search Committee on March 21 to determine what its final recommendation to the Provost ought to be. She reported that at the meeting she had been asked to provide input and that she had advised the Search Committee that she did not see it within their charge to simply cancel the search irrespective of the number of finalist candidates with which they were left. She also reported that John Leavey had reminded the Search Committee that they had invited CLAS faculty input and had asked for that input to be given as late as March 26. In light of this the Search Committee was going to wait until March 27 to draft its report to the Provost. Mary Watt announced that she would be attendng that meeting.
- Mary Watt advised that she had already requested a meeting with President Machen and had spoken with his Special Assistant in that regard. She was waiting to hear back as to when President Machen might be able to meet with the committee.
- The committee agreed to revise the draft poll to reflect Peter Coclanis’ withdrawal and it was agreed that the poll would be sent out on March 25.
- Mary Watt also agreed to send a reminder to department representatives advising them to send their comments on to the committee.
- The meeting adjourned at 6:30
March 27, 2008, 237 Dauer Hall
Present: Mike Binford, Gary Ihas, Amie Kreppel, Kaoru Kitajima (left
at 4:30 pm), John Leavey, John Henretta, Mary Watt
Absent: Mitchell Hart, Kenneth Merz
- The meeting started at 4:00
- The Committee considered the results of the faculty poll, and the narratives provided by the department representatives, as well as their own experience with the candidates.
- The Committee then discussed what its recommendation to President Machen would be and what input it would provide to the Search Committee.
- Mike Binford moved that the Committee recommend continuing with the search for the CLAS Dean. He motion was seconded. The vote was taken. All were in favor. None were opposed.
- Gary Ihas moved that the Committee recommend Paul D’Anieri for the position of CLAS Dean. The motion was seconded. The vote was taken. Seven in favor, one opposed. Kaoru Kitajima was no longer at the meeting when the vote was taken.
- The meeting adjourned at 4:45 pm
March 31, 2008, 237 Dauer Hall
Present: Mike Binford, Mitchell Hart, John Henretta,
Jed Keesling, Amie Kreppel, Mary Watt
Absent: Kennie Merz, Kaoru Kitajima,
John Leavey
- The Meeting started at 5:00 pm
- Committee Members discussed the wording of the written report to Dr. Machen. There was discussion as to whether to include the words “of two of the three divisions of CLAS.” Mike Binford moved to include the words, the motion was seconded. A vote was taken. Results of the vote: 3 in favor, 4 against inclusion of the phrase
- Mary Watt noted that she had been asked by Jack Stripling of the Gainesville Sun to provide a copy of the CLAS poll results. She advised that she had told Mr. Stripling that she would have to get her committee’s approval first. All members of the committee present agreed they would prefer that the poll results be made available to faculty before being provided to the press. It was noted that the committee would be making a report to the Faculty Senate on April 7 and that the results would be publicly available at that time.
- The meeting adjourned at 5:40 pm