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Committees

Standing Committees (for details, see Bylaws, Article II)
  • Academic Issues Committee: Monitor academic issues to identify those that directly affect professionals and professional faculty and their areas of responsibility.
  • Communications Committee: Manage Assembly website, listservs, and online discussions, polling and voting.
  • Membership Committee: Manage elections, including nominations and election procedures.
  • Policies and Administrative Issues Committee: Monitor College administrative issues of relevance to professionals and professional faculty.
PPFA Committee memberships (2011-2012)

Note:  Per the PPFA Bylaws, the current PPFA President serves as an ex officio member of each committee.

 I.  Academic Issues Committee

  • Carlane Hampton-Pittman, chair
  • Peel Hawthorne, PPFA
  • Jennifer Latour, PPFA
  • Elaine McBeth, PPFA
  • Cory Springer, PPFA
II.  Communications Committee
  • Tina Coleman, chair 
  • Judy Corello, PPFA
  • Dot Osborne, PPFA
  • Wendy Webb-Robers, PPFA

III.  Membership Committee   

  • Susan Mongold, chair
  • Karlene Jennings, PPFA
  • Mane Pada, PPFA

 

 IV.  Policies and Administrative Issues Committee

  • Jennifer Sekula, chair
  • Lesley Atkinson, PPFA
  • Wayne Boy, PPFA
  • Carla Costello
  • Sharron Gatling, PPFA
  • Julie Hunt
  • Pamela Mason, PPFA
  • Robert Reis, PPFA

Policies & Administrative Issues Committee meeting minutes (pdfs):

Policies & Administrative Issues Committee 2010-2011 Objectives & Reports:

  • Service-Governance Component:  develop and submit a Service-Governance Proposal for all professionals and professional faculty to have a component in their job descriptions and evaluations, akin to that of instructional faculty.   Service-Governance Proposal:  proposal drafted and approved by the PPFA , Fall 2010; submitted to the Provost, March 28, 2011.
  • Constitution and Bylaws review:  FY2010 and FY2011 PPFA Policies & Administrative Issues Committee reviewed, identified several amendments; PPFA reviewed and approved; Provost reviewed and approved, March 28, 2011.  Amendments posted for all PPFs to review, mid-April 2011; are on the May 2011 election ballot.
  • Employee survey:  draft a response to the 2010 W&M Employee Survey (which contained significant data errors for professionals and professional faculty).   PPFA’s Policies and Administrative Issues Committee drafted a response in the form of a proposal with a recommendation to conduct that survey again or devise our own.  The PPFA approved the proposal, and the PPFA Executive Committee submitted it to the Provost, March 28, 2011.
  • Participation:  from December 2010 minutes:  “ the PPFA’s Policies & Administrative Issues Committee will draft a separate policy/procedures document that will propose guidelines for meeting attendance and other participation and submit it to the Executive Committee for discussion; the Executive Committee will send it to the Assembly for discussion and approval.”  Draft document approved 5/10/2011 by the Policies & Administrative Issues Committee;  was submitted to the full PPFA for its consideration at its 5/11/2011 meeting and approved.  Posted on the PPFA website under Governance.
  • Number of Staff:  per December 2010 PPFA minutes, gather data to compare staffing levels at W&M peer institutions.   5/17/2011:  Ridley-McCoy and Molineux will meet to plan this project.
  • Policies and Issues Expertise (PIE) Project:  this project, begun in 2009-2010, was designed to help PPFA members develop basic knowledge about policies affecting professionals and professional faculty.  5/10/2011:  Mongold and Gatling will review the status of this 2009-10 project (especially the writing of the policy "white papers") and report back to the Policies & Administrative Issues Committee.